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When students take to the streets for March For Our Lives rallies, they can also take a Lyft to get around... for free. On March 24, the rideshare company will provide free Lyft rides for March for Our Lives attendees, the company announced. “Your ...
Uber rival Lyft appears to be testing monthly subscriptions for the ride-hailing service. Some Lyft users are posting on Twitter about receiving subscription offers from Lyft, with pricing varying from $249 for an “all-access plan,” $199 a month for 30 ...
The NCAA men's basketball tournament started this week, but the real “March Madness” might be in the artificial intelligence space. Over the past few weeks, we've seen several machine learning investments around the world as companies make their shot ...
When self-driving taxis hit the streets, people will pay for ride subscriptions instead of piecemeal for each ride, many industry experts predict. But Lyft isn't waiting for autonomous vehicles to get up to speed to experiment with that payment model.
For those planning on going out for St. Patrick's Day, you're in luck: ride-sharing discounts are available this week to make sure users safely get to and from festivities. The Maricopa County Attorney's Office has partnered with ride-sharing service ...
Coming to Fortune Brainstorm Tech 2018 in Aspen, left to right: Dara Khosrowshahi of Uber, John Zimmer of Lyft, Hooi Ling Tan of Grab, Richard Liu of JD.com, Marc Lore of Walmart, Jennifer Fleiss of Walmart, Stacey Sher of Activision Blizzard, Bob ...
To provide rides to people who can't drive to their doctor's appointments, Lyft is expanding its partnerships with healthcare providers by teaming up with Allscripts to reach approximately 7 million patients, USA Today reported. “The idea is here ...
A hotly contested study claiming that Uber and Lyft drivers make less than $4 per hour after expenses was significantly revised Monday, now saying drivers earn a median $8.55 or $10 per hour. “The profit from driving is higher than we initially ...
SAN FRANCISCO — It's no good having health care if you can't make the appointment. For housebound patients, the answer may increasingly come in the form of an Uber or Lyft — rather than a medical-transport van or taxi. Both companies are pushing hard ...
BOSTON — One promise of ride-hailing companies like Uber and Lyft was fewer cars clogging city streets. But studies suggest the opposite: that ride-hailing companies are pulling riders off buses, subways, bicycles and their own feet and putting them ...
PITTSTON TWP. — Regional Sky will begin its planned twice daily, roundtrip flights to Pittsburgh on April 23, a local airport official said Thursday. The business-oriented, 90-minute flights will leave the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport ...
The ridesharing service is starting a six-month trial with Hitch Health to identify patients in need of transportation help and offer them rides. Sara Roncero-Menendez. 22 february 2018. For some, just getting to a doctor's appointment is a battle in ...
Memphis International Airport will increase fees on Uber and Lyft starting March 1. The airport will begin charging $2 a transaction for both pickups and drop-offs, after previously charging only for pickups. The increase is expected to generate an ...
LOS ANGELES >> A 29-year-old rideshare driver missing more than a week was found Monday in a Los Angeles hospital, according to media reports. Joshua Thiede was found at Good Samaritan Hospital, according to broadcast reporters contacted by ...
LOS ANGELES — A 29-year-old ride-hailing driver missing more than a week was found in the Wilshire Center area and taken to a hospital, according to police, who said today his disappearance was not believed to be “criminal in nature.” Joshua Thiede ...
Lyft is defending itself in a class action lawsuit filed by its own drivers. The company is accused of underpaying drivers. One driver located in New Jersey is represented by Steve Mashel, a New Jersey employment lawyer, told WTMJ-TV that Lyft drivers ...
Travis VanderZanden. If you've been following the fast-changing transportation industry, it's a name that may sound familiar. Until September 2016, VanderZanden was VP of growth at Uber and before that, COO of its fierce rival Lyft, which had acquired ...
Under the Round Up & Donate campaign, Lyft riders have been able to donate over $4 million to charities, according to USA Today. — Drake surprises fans, drops $50k for grocery shoppers in Miami —. All riders have to do is go into their app and turn ...
Airport managers around South Carolina are keeping an eye on the increasing number of travelers who come and go via Uber and Lyft. The concern is how much the popular ride-sharing services are cutting into income from taxicabs, rental cars and parking ...
A former Lyft employee has accused staffers of using the ridesharing company's software to spy on passengers, including obtaining the phone number of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. TechCrunch spoke to the source, who claimed that employees were ...
Lyft partnered with Chicago craft beer company Baderbrau Brewing to create its own brand of beer. The beer is called Five Star Lager and was rebranded from the brewery's original product South Side Pride. Drinkers who purchase the beverage can find a ...
Concierge offers a variety of Lyft ride types, and the businesses can also access real-time ride tracking and 24-hour customer support, the company says. The full launch of Concierge will greatly expand the types of businesses that book rides on behalf ...
Lyft has a new report out detailing its 'economic impact' for 2017, and the document includes a lot of stats on its performance throughout the year. The ride-hailing provider claims 375.5 million rides for the year, which is 130 percent growth measured ...
Next up from ride-share company Lyft? Beer. Starting on Jan. 18, Chicagoans will be able to buy Lyft's Five Star Lager and land up to a 60% discount on their Lyft ride home. While it may seem counterintuitive to sell alcohol as a mechanism to get ...
It started like any other Lyft pickup: After entering my destination in the app, a car appeared at my location several minutes later. But as I stepped inside the vehicle and shut the door, I was required to confirm my trip details on a tablet mounted ...
Self-driving and connected car tech company Aptiv (formerly Delphi) is back at CES again in 2018, and this time it's partnering with Lyft to demonstrate its latest developments in self-driving technology. The Aptiv and Lyft team-up brings a fleet of 8 ...
Headquartered in Gillingham, England, Aptiv has 147,000 employees and operates 14 technical centers, as well as manufacturing sites and customer support centers in 45 countries. Visit aptiv.com. About Lyft Lyft was founded in June 2012 by Logan Green ...
There's a lot to be said about whether the so-called “sharing economy” actually makes people's lives better or worse. Maybe it's both. But it's compelling, even magical, that everyday people can just pick up a gig that puts them in contact with so many ...
When a server or a piece of industrial equipment starts displaying unusual behavior, it can take a while for the issue to be spotted even if administrators have access to diagnostics data from the system and the appropriate monitoring software. Tel ...
Lyft is celebrating the holiday season by having cars don their own ugly sweaters and inviting passengers to sing carols. Zack Palm. 20 december 2017. Lyft got into the holiday spirit by partnering with professional knitter Jessie Hemmons to wrap three ...
Lyft is working with assistive community Aira to make catching a ride easier for the visually impaired. That means wearable smart glasses and an augmented reality implement for their driver's dashboard that will deliver "essential ride information ...
Ride-hailing company Lyft on Tuesday launched its service in Toronto, marking the first time it has taken its battle against the much larger Uber outside of the United States. Lyft presents itself as a friendlier version of Uber, which is facing ...
From Wednesday, some passengers in Boston were able to hail a self-driving car through their Lyft rideshare app as part of a highly anticipated trial of autonomous vehicles in the city. The pilot in Boston's Seaport area is the product of a ...
Where were people headed in 2017? We already know which restaurants offered the best work experience. And we know which restaurants diners deemed the best in the country. But when you spot a Lyft on a busy street do you ever wonder where the people ...
It took several months, but Lyft and nuTonomy have made good on their promise to test autonomous ridesharing cars in Boston. The two have launched a pilot program that gives "select" Seaport-area passengers a ride in one of nuTonomy's self-driving ...
Lyft's first self-driving car pilot is officially underway. The company is sending autonomous vehicles — developed by the startup NuTonomy — to pick up passengers in Boston's Seaport district, which is a growing tech hub. The cars are not completely ...
Investors are sinking more money into ride-hailing services company Lyft as the startup captures more market share from rival Uber and pursues autonomous driving. The startup announced Tuesday its recent round of funding has increased from $1 billion ...
Cincinnati Police are still looking for a man they say posed as a Lyft driver and sexually assaulted a woman Saturday morning. According to officials, the man picked up the victim between 2 a.m. and 3:30 a.m. in the 1400 block of Main Street and drove ...
Lyft has made a concerted effort, in its business strategies and its advertising, to make its drivers feel valued—from last year's seven-minute animated short “June” (released on its own “Lyft Driver Appreciation Day”) to this year's car-wash stunt in ...
Police are searching for a man they say posed as a Lyft driver and sexually assaulted a woman Saturday morning. According to Cincinnati Police, the man picked up the victim between 2 a.m. and 3:30 a.m. in the 1400 block of Main Street and drove her to ...
The state is allowing ride-hailing services Lyft and Uber to pick up passengers at two designated locations at the Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in Honolulu as part of a three-month pilot program. PrevNext. ADVERTISING. The state is allowing ...
If your prices don't come down, and the attitude of the drivers go up, you're just wasting your time. I can tell you for certain that I'm never going back to city cabs. Jimmy McNulty • 1 month ago. I'm sure they would have eventually done this on their ...
A Boston man working for the Lyft ride sharing service is facing criminal charges for allegedly threatening two clients with a metal pipe in Boston's North End early Sunday during a dispute over money, Boston police said. Jesse Colon, 45, was arrested ...
BOSTON (AP) — Police have charged a Lyft driver with assault after he allegedly threatened two passengers with a metal pipe in Boston. Authorities say the 45-year-old driver had just dropped off a man and a woman around 12:45 a.m. Sunday. The couple ...
It seems that the ride-hailing market is on track to see yet another major funding round in the foreseeable future. On Wednesday night, Axios was tipped off that Lyft Inc. had quietly filed paperwork to raise new capital. The share authorization ...
Uber rival Lyft is raising an additional $500 million in funding, according to a U.S. share authorization document filed in Delaware news website Axios said. The additional funding round, led by Alphabet Inc's CapitalG, is an extension of the $1 ...
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Ride-hailing service Lyft is coming to Toronto next month in its first expansion outside the United States, giving those in Canada's largest city a new commuting option. "Toronto is actually a no-brainer for us when we decided to launch internationally ...
Lyft is growing beyond its home market of the U.S., with a launch planned next month in Toronto, the largest city in Canada. Residents in the greater Toronto area (and nearby Hamilton will be able to hail vehicles from five of its service options ...
Ride-sharing app Lyft, which has seen its market share surge in the last year as rival Uber has struggled, is expanding outside of the U.S. for the first time with plans to launch in Toronto. The company started recruiting new drivers in the Canadian ...
