New York’s latest state budget includes new disclosure requirements for businesses that use personal data to set different prices for different shoppers – for example, you’ll be charged more if you have a history of splurging. Businesses using personalized pricing are now required to tell customers, “This price was determined by an algorithm using your…
Uber Eats is partnering with sidewalk delivery robot company Starship Technologies to deliver food in the UK starting later this year. The companies will launch the service “from selected merchants” in the Leeds and Sheffield areas in December and expand from there. Uber said the service will expand to “additional European markets in 2026” and…
Drivers for ride—hiling apps like Uber and Lyft will soon have the right to federation as independent contractors in California, thanks to the bill signed by Governor Gavin Newsom on Friday. It is part of a large deal between MPs, Unions and Ride-Heling companies, resulting in different bills passing, supporting low insurance requirements for Uber…
Uber will test a new partnership with a new partnership with Israeli startup flightrex by the end of this year, using drones for Uber Eats delivery. Flightrax will also include a small investment in partnership, although Uber Told Bloomberg News The investment amount was not material. The deal comes at a time when Uber is…
Uber has made another deal with a robotax provider, and this time it is with Chinese tech veteran Badu. Two companies Announced On Tuesday that they have agreed to a multi-year strategic partnership to deploy thousands of Baidu’s Apollo Go Autonomous Vehicles (AVS) on the Uber platform in several markets outside the US and the…
