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Uber is exiting the race for dominance in China’s ride-hailing market and selling its stake to rival Didi Chuxing.
Uber actively encloses what could be a more open city in which riders and drivers work to benefit city residents.
Governments too often hinder change, when instead they should aim to foster an organic innovation ecosystem. This is more about bottom-up innovation than top-down schemas.
Schools are focusing on the wrong objective when it comes to using technology in their classrooms. They should focus just as much on how they teach.
A case of an uber driver from Perth suing the company because his contract was terminated may show how protected drivers are under law.
How a cabinet-maker and temperance preacher managed what the ride-sharing company is struggling to pull off.
While there has been a rise in contracting out and ‘disruptors’ such as Uber, employment is an will remain the dominant method of business operation in a capitalist setting.
Uber’s move to establish a drivers association is akin to the ‘yellow unions’ of the 1930s.
The Indonesian government recently announced it would start to regulate app-based ride-sharing services such as Uber, Grab Taxi and Gojek.
The deal, in which drivers won’t pursue their claim to be employees in exchange for the cash and other changes, raises more questions than it answers.
Presidential candidates are using voter anger to fuel more divisions and discord rather than to start a conversation about the collapse of collective bargaining.
The disruption happening thanks to algorithms is happening all around us.
Financial services are being digitally disrupted, but the idea of a financial “sharing” economy replacing traditional banking ignores reality.
As online marketplaces mature, a raft of new service-based companies are popping up around them.
Moves to legalise Uber and Airbnb are paving the way for better protection of all parties involved.
There are few markets that have easier entry and exit than those in the sharing economy.
Unions are in a self-described crisis. The well-known tale of union decline in Australia continues with the latest figures revealing less than 15% of workers are members of unions, with that dropping to…
Economists love Uber’s surge pricing. But it is doomed, because customers hate it. Why? Surge pricing occurs when the supply and demand for Uber vehicles becomes unbalanced, for example, due to inclement…
The tax law established pre-internet is failing to keep up with the digital economy.
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