Uber Technologies Inc.

In July 2010, Uber went live for the first time in San Francisco before spreading to other American cities. ... Along with Airbnb, Uber has seized on the rise of smartphone apps to power the sharing economy. But its huge growth has been met with fierce opposition from regulators and traditional taxi firms.

Conventional wisdom holds that Uber's paranoid, unscrupulous management is largely to blame for its predicament. No doubt ... That's why an Uber that controls a big chunk of a future global self-driving taxi industry could be such a behemoth. ... That has been key to its ability to compete with taxis on cost.

A European Union decision to treat Uber Technologies Inc. like a taxi company spotlights a trans-Atlantic divide over how governments cope with disruptive technologies and could embolden U.S. cities to restrict ... “Regulation of taxis in the U.S. is generally the responsibility of each city where they operate.

So why switch it up all of a sudden? Well, it all comes from a lawsuit in Spain by an organization representing the country's professional taxi drivers. The court says Uber had an unfair advantage in Spain because some of its drivers didn't have licenses to drive taxis. Now, this ruling doesn't have any effect in ...

The law officers of Sutliff and Stout want to save people from DWI-related crashes on New Years Eve. (KTRK). KTRK. Wednesday, December 20, 2017 06:28PM. HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) --. If you're going to be partying on New Years Eve, a Houston law firm wants to pay you back for using a taxi or ride-sharing service.

So it is, then, that Uber, the greatest boon in personal transportation since the Model T-Ford, will be smashed by these new enemies of change. The European Court of Justice, never the most modernist of institutions, has loftily decided that Uber is in fact a taxi firm, rather than a technology company, and ...

Uber had positioned itself as digital marketplace that connected drivers with riders, which tend to face a lighter regulatory burden. The ruling will now force Uber to comply with the bloc's rules for taxis and other transport companies, meaning the company could face stricter licensing and other requirements.