In short: Tech giant Uber is being sued by rival taxi app GoCatch, who claim the ridesharing company used underhanded tactics to gain an edge more than a decade ago....
Biorąc pod uwagę że większość kierowców Ubera itp nie zna polskiego, to nałożenie obowiązku posiadania polskiego prawa jazdy jest uderzeniem atomowym. (bo chyba nie można prawka w obcym języku zdawać, a egzamin jest pełen kruczków językowych)
Um einem Gerichtsverfahren zu entgehen, zahlt der US-Fahrdienstleister Uber australischen Taxifahrern mehrere Millionen. Die Verhandlungen zu der Sammelklage sollten ursprünglich heute beginnen.
“Uber’s margins fattened as competitors fell by the wayside and the company ground down costs.”
Those “costs” are driver wages. Uber’s shifted billions from drivers to corporate coffers and that will now fund a big share buyback and potentially a dividend.
There's a cheat-code in US #antitrustm it's been increasingly used since the #Reagan administration, when the "#ConsumerWelfare" theory ("#monopolies are fine, so long as the lower prices") shoved aside the long-established idea that antitrust law existed to prevent monopolies from forming at all.
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The idea that a company can do anything to create or continue a monopoly so long as its prices go down and/or its quality goes up is directly to blame for the rise of #BigTech. These companies burned through investors' cash for years, selling goods and services below cost, or even giving stuff away for free. Think of #Uber, who lost $0.41 on every dollar they brought in for their first 13 years of existence, a move that cost their investors (mostly Saudi royals) $31 billion.
Puisque l'actu du mois d'août est relativement calme, on va vous proposer ici, à raison de quatre papiers par jour jusqu'à la fin du mois, une sélection d'articles parus entre l'été 2022 et l'été 2023. C'est l'opération #1andePixels en 70 et quelques articles, c'est parti !
Si #Uber a pu s'installer si facilement en France, au mépris souvent de la loi, c'est notamment grâce aux discrets coups de main du ministre de l'économie de l'époque, un certain... Emmanuel #Macron.
Pixels, au sein d'un consortium mené par le #Guardian, l'a découvert en épluchant ce qu'on a appelé les #UberFiles - des leaks qui révèlent la mécanique Uber.
Enquête de Damien Leloup initialement parue le 10/07/22.
#uber, même en étant des salauds, continue de perdre beaucoup d’argent.
“Uber's algorithm seeks out "pickers" who are choosy about which rides they take, and converts them to "ants" (who take every ride offered) by paying them more for the same job, until they drop all their other gigs, whereupon the algorithm cuts their pay back to the rates paid to ants” https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/09/accounting-gimmicks/ (by @pluralistic)
"the magic interval when a confidence trickster knows he has the money he has appropriated but the victim does not yet understand that he has lost it" (#JKGabraith)
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As a learning experience, I’ve been an #Uber driver for the last 10 days. I was curious what it was like, how the app and algorithm works. Very interesting.
Here are numbers for mileage, time and income so far. Note that I live in Montgomery county, PA, just NW of Philly. I’m sure more money is to be made in Philly, but I don’t care.
Also: We have a 14 month old Tesla Model 3. Did 7,000 miles in the first year. This can easily rack up miles. Electricity cost is about $1 per 30 miles driven.
The Internet is starting to Break - Here's Why. ( invidious.private.coffee )
Youtube video...
'I want to destroy them': Court examines Uber's conduct as the tech giant gained a foothold in Australian market ( www.abc.net.au )
In short: Tech giant Uber is being sued by rival taxi app GoCatch, who claim the ridesharing company used underhanded tactics to gain an edge more than a decade ago....