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Women react to Saudi $3.5bn Uber cash injection

Saudi women have dismissed the idea raised by Uber that the company was massively improving their mobility, as the car ride service received its biggest cash injection from the kingdom’s public investment fund. Uber, which has been operational in the country for two years, said on Wednesday that it had[…]

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Cpt taxi driver shot dead in his car

A 49-year-old taxi driver was shot and killed while sitting in his vehicle in Burg Street, Rosebank, on Friday morning, Western Cape police said. “The circumstances are under investigation and no one has been arrested as yet,” Lieutenant Colonel Andrè Traut said on Sunday. “The motive is yet to be established.”[…]

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Four men torch Uber car in Nairobi

Four men torched a car from the ride hailing company Uber in the Kenyan capital Nairobi on Wednesday, police said, on the same day Uber launched its services in Mombasa, Kenya’s second largest city. The driver escaped unhurt, police said. This is the second attack against Uber cars in Kenya[…]

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Uber driver in India found guilty of rape

A former driver for the ride-sharing service Uber was convicted by a Delhi court on Tuesday of raping a female passenger last year. The former driver, Shiv Kumar Yadav, was also convicted of kidnapping, in addition to rape while endangering the life of a woman, for an assault in New[…]

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Uber drivers complain of red tape, xenophobia

Uber Technologies taxi drivers in Cape Town are suffering xenophobic discrimination from traffic police and face lengthy waiting times for licence approvals, according to a spokesperson for the US company. “Many of our partner drivers say they have been stopped by law enforcement officers who first determine that the driver[…]

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Hollande condemns protests against Uber

French President Francois Hollande has condemned violent protests by taxi drivers against the car ride-booking app Uber, but maintained that the service should be taken off the road. Hollande, speaking early on Friday morning, described the Paris demonstrations as “unacceptable violence in a democracy, in a country like France”. But[…]

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