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In an effort to push more of its customers to carpool, Uber is experimenting with a version of its ride-hailing application that displays the maximum cost riders will pay to get to their destination.

Drivers for ride-hailing services such as Uber, Lyft, and HopSkipDrive are generally safer than the average American driver, according to a new study by automotive analytics firm Zendrive and research firm Aite Group.

Toyota Motor Corp. announced Tuesday a partnership with Uber Technologies in which the Japanese automaker will invest an undisclosed sum in the ride-hailing company and establish a car-leasing option for Uber drivers.

I was standing on the sidewalk outside La Bodega, a bustling grocery store on West Olive Avenue, awaiting my Uber driver.

Americans who use ride-hailing apps believe the services are a positive force in the economy, and they should not be regulated like traditional taxis, according to a survey conducted by an independent research group.

One hundred million dollars is enough to fund a blockbuster movie, snap up several Beverly Hills mansions and, in Uber’s case, potentially settle two class-action lawsuits filed by drivers in California and Massachusetts who want to be classified as employees rather than contractors.

Ask Uber or Lyft about the key to their success, and they’ll attribute the bulk of it to technology.

The business model of companies like the ride-matching services Uber and Lyft is based on flouting regulations that taxi companies and other competitors have to meet.

Uber and Lyft on Monday suspended their ride-hailing services in Austin, Texas, after voters decided against overturning city requirements that include fingerprinting their drivers.

There’s no shortage of companies claiming to be the Uber of their industry, whether it’s food delivery, flowers, mattresses or medicinal marijuana.

The class action flood gates have opened.

After a morning spent driving for Uber in his Huntington Beach neighborhood last October, James Welton returned from lunch to find he couldn’t get back into the ride service app.

When the ride-hailing services Uber and Lyft first came on the scene, business traveler managers were leery of the services.

State regulators on Thursday granted companies such as Uber and Lyft permission to offer carpooling, sanctioning a service that has allowed fast-growing San Francisco companies to offer lower-cost rides.

Arthur Bard can see the good and the bad sides of Uber’s work arrangement with its drivers.

By settling two class-action lawsuits brought by Uber drivers who wanted to be classified as employees, the ride-hailing company has halted the biggest threat to its business model.

Uber will pay up to $100 million to drivers who had sought to be classified as employees, settling two lawsuits that posed a threat to the company’s on-demand business model, which relies on independent contractors.

San Francisco is urging some 37,000 Uber and Lyft drivers to register themselves as businesses — adding red tape that could hurt ride-hailing companies’ bid to grow their workforce, but also helping affirm that those drivers are independent contractors, not employees.

Uber boasts 50,000 drivers who are veterans, service members or military spouses -- and it wants to recruit even more.

Uber agreed to a $25-million settlement in a lawsuit alleging the ride-hailing company misled and overcharged customers in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Uber has caught a break in a class-action lawsuit that could force the San Francisco company to treat many drivers as employees, not contractors.

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Drivers for Uber, Lyft and limousine services in Los Angeles should undergo fingerprint scans and background checks similar to those imposed on local taxi drivers, Mayor Eric Garcetti and two city lawmakers told California regulators this week.

Uber is offering a new way to visit Mexico.

Uber has agreed to pay $28.5 million to roughly 25 million customers to settle two class-action lawsuits related to the way the company represented its background checks and the fees it charged passengers.

A former Taco Bell corporate manager who was captured on video drunkenly attacking his Uber driver is now suing that driver for $5 million, claiming that the recording was made without his consent, according to court documents.

Uber has already taken over the roads in most major cities.

Uber’s fate in California will be decided Thursday when the California Public Utilities Commission votes on whether the ride-hailing company will be suspended and fined $7.6 million for failing to meet data reporting requirements in 2014.

Since Uber’s launch in San Francisco five years ago, government officials have wrestled with how to address this new type of transportation service.

The California Public Utilities Commission agreed Thursday with a judge’s recommendation to fine Uber $7.6 million for failing to meet data reporting requirements in 2014.

Almost anyone can drive for Uber: actors, musicians, retirees, stay-at-home moms.

Orange County tablet maker grandPad, which designs and sells a tablet specifically for seniors, will soon pre-install the Uber app on its tablets so users can easily hail a ride.

“Hailing a cab” once meant stretching an arm out toward a city’s open streets and attracting the attention of a ubiquitous yellow car.

You hail an Uber for a night out on the town.

Uber drivers covered by a class action lawsuit against the San Francisco company will not be affected by a new Uber driver agreement issued last week, a federal judge ruled on Thursday.

If there ever was a time for Uber drivers to carefully read their contracts, it’s now.

When a federal judge decided last year who could be part of a worker misclassification class-action lawsuit against Uber, two groups of drivers were excluded: Those who drove for Uber through limo companies and those who signed up to drive using corporate or fictitious names.

Seattle on Monday became the first city in the nation to allow drivers of ride-hailing companies such as Uber and Lyft to unionize over pay and working conditions.

Uber issued plenty of advance warnings before New Year’s Eve, but that didn’t stop passengers from complaining about the ride-hailing app’s surge pricing -- which sent fares skyrocketing in hot spots around the world.

Uber drivers: 2. Uber: 0.

In a sign that on-demand transportation company Uber is maturing, the San Francisco company announced Tuesday the creation of a safety advisory board to help it navigate safety and security hurdles.

A new Uber driver survey released Monday reveals that Uber drivers are the most satisfied they’ve ever been.

The fate of Uber’s business model — the same business model that has earned the company a $50-billion valuation — will be decided next summer, after a federal judge in San Francisco set a June 20, 2016, trial date for a class action lawsuit against the on-demand transportation company.

Ride-sharing services like Uber and short-term home rentals like Airbnb may get a boost in business now that the state of California has made it clear that its employees can turn to such businesses when traveling for work.

During his annual State of the City address in April, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti hinted that the logistical nightmare of getting home after a flight into Los Angeles International Airport would soon become easier.

Bob Hope Airport is grappling with how to deal with the popularity of ride-sharing services such as Uber and Lyft.

Ride-hailing app Uber is lawful and can stay in gear on the streets of London, Britain’s High Court ruled Friday in a setback for angry drivers of the city’s iconic black cabs.

Groups of Uber drivers across the country are organizing to go on strike this weekend unless the on-demand transportation company agrees to increase fares and add a tipping option.

How often have you changed your mind about ordering a second glass -- or a second bottle -- of wine, worried about driving home?

The logistics race is heating up.

Uber’s grand plan to replace car ownership is inching closer to reality.

Uber is expanding its San Francisco headquarters – to an old Sears building in downtown Oakland.

To the editor: Columnist Steve Lopez wrote a fair and balanced column about his experience as an Uber driver for a day.

The conference Andy Arias planned to attend on a recent weekday was less than a mile from his apartment in downtown Los Angeles, but he called an Uber to stay out of the oppressive summer sun.

On-demand transportation company Uber is making good on its promise to expand quickly and aggressively in China, with Chief Executive Travis Kalanick announcing at an investor event Tuesday that the company will enter 100 more Chinese cities over the next year.

A taxi strike in India’s second largest city spilled into a second day Wednesday as a powerful union protested the expansion of Uber and other mobile cab-hailing services.

Uber drivers scored a victory Tuesday as a federal judge ruled that they may move forward with a class-action lawsuit that seeks to turn them from contractors into employees.

The taxi industry spent heavily to defeat it. Critics called it an unregulated dark zone.

The Los Angeles City Council’s vote Tuesday to allow ride-hailing companies to pick up passengers at LAX severely undercut the taxi industry’s last competitive advantage in the city.

Los Angeles International Airport has become the latest battleground in the war between taxi drivers and app-based ride services like Uber and Lyft.

Uber’s 20% cut from the cost of rides it provides should add up to $2 billion in revenue this year, a nearly tenfold increase over 2013, the latest in a series of leaked financial documents suggest.

In a nod to consumer demands and the realities of disruptive technology, Los Angeles became the largest city in the nation Tuesday to open the door for ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft to fully operate alongside taxis at its airport.

The odds that Uber and Lyft will soon be fully operational at Los Angeles International Airport appear to be increasing, despite some political hesitation at City Hall and calls for tighter screening of the ride-hailing services’ drivers.

A 23-year-old Uber driver was arrested Tuesday after police reportedly found five guns, hundreds of prescription pills and nearly $20,000 in cash at his Glendale home, police said.

The ride-hailing revolution holds the potential to radically change the way people get around.

The California Public Utilities Commission is looking into whether Uber and other ride-sharing companies are violating state rules by allowing drivers to use leased vehicles on the job.

The background-check service that ride-hailing company Uber uses to screen potential drivers did not flag the criminal records of 25 drivers who gave thousands of rides to customers in Los Angeles and San Francisco, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Uber, the ride-hailing company, is on a roll — growing at an extraordinary rate even in the face of virulent opposition.

Flying to Oakland International Airport? Easy. Getting out of Oakland International Airport?

Opponents of Uber, Lyft and other smartphone-powered transportation services have long lobbied for regulators to treat these companies the same way taxi companies are treated, given that they’re vying for many of the same customers.

The push to make Los Angeles International Airport the largest in the nation to allow Uber and Lyft has hit an obstacle at City Hall as the ride-hailing services battle with the powerful taxicab industry for influence.

At least four men who were ticketed by Los Angeles International Airport Police while driving for Uber’s low-cost car service have criminal convictions that would bar them from operating a taxi in Los Angeles, records show.

Although ride-sharing companies like Uber and Lyft continue to expand across the country, the services remain one of the least popular ground transportation options among business travelers.

Citing “significant questions” over equity and public safety, six members of the Los Angeles City Council said Wednesday that they want to reexamine the new rules that would allow Uber and Lyft to pick up passengers at Los Angeles International Airport.

Uber has spent the last five years connecting drivers with passengers.

On-demand transportation company Uber will spend $1 billion over the next nine months in India to expand its presence in one of its biggest global markets, the San Francisco company announced Friday.

California legislature addressing key issues regarding safety, consumer privacy and deregulation for companies such as Uber: -- Should drivers be subject to random drug tests?

Uber now spends more on lobbyists in California than Wal-Mart, Bank of America or Wells Fargo.

As Uber grows in number and popularity, regulators face a new lobbying group: app users who love Uber.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio rejected Uber’s calls to have a live debate about their differences on Monday, saying he doesn’t debate private corporations.

The so-called sharing economy is fast emerging as a 2016 presidential battleground, exposing fundamentally different approaches over how to embrace new technologies without hurting American workers.

A deal has been struck between New York City and Uber on the eve of a City Council vote that could have placed a cap on the number of cars the ride-hailing company can have on the streets of the nation’s largest city.

An ambitious company looking to take over the world can deal with government in one of two ways.

Uber likes to say it is the great equalizer when it comes to transportation: Anyone with a smartphone can use the app to hail a ride quickly and affordably.

Los Angeles officials voted Thursday to allow ride services such as Uber and Lyft to pick up passengers at LAX, the largest U.S. city to grant full airport access to the rapidly growing app-based companies.

Uber — plagued by problems with regulators, drivers and taxi unions around the world — took a big blow in its home state Wednesday when an administrative judge recommended that the ride-sharing giant be fined $7.3 million and be suspended from operating in California.

On-demand transportation company Uber has settled a lawsuit brought by the family of Sofia Liu, a 6-year-old who was run over and killed by an Uber driver in San Francisco on New Year’s Eve in 2013.

If Uber gets its way, the class-action lawsuit it faces in San Francisco over worker classification could become a run-of-the-mill lawsuit with only three plaintiffs.

Uber announced Friday that it was suspending its low-cost ride share service in France, a week after hundreds of taxi drivers took to the streets to angrily protest the popular app.

Two Uber France managers have been ordered to stand trial to face charges including “deceptive commercial practices” and complicity in illegal activities linked to its low-cost ride-hailing service, the Paris prosecutor’s office said Tuesday.

French taxi drivers overturned cars, burned tires and blocked access to airports and train stations in a second day of violent protest Thursday against competition from the ride-sharing service Uber.

From 7 p.m. until dawn, Zhou Xiuquan plies the streets of Beijing, picking up fares in his yellow-and-blue Hyundai taxi, shuttling people home from work, out to bars and to the airport for early-morning flights.

A privacy rights organization lashed out against Uber on Monday, accusing the country’s largest ride-sharing company of plans to deceptively collect personal data under an updated privacy policy slated to roll out next month.

Silicon Valley has created a new breed of American worker: neither employee nor contractor, indispensable to the company but free to work as much or as little as they please — with no real boss.

The Uber business model is pretty simple: People use the ride-hailing app to find a driver to take them where they want to go for a price.

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Forty-six states down, four to go.

Uber halted its service in Kansas on Tuesday afternoon after state legislators overrode the governor’s veto of a bill regulating on-demand transportation companies.

Authorities have ordered Uber to suspend its activities in Brazil, and for app store operators to disable the product nationally, arguing that the San Francisco quasi-taxi company violates local transportation laws.

Taxi drivers in California must submit to fingerprinting for criminal background checks.

Charges against a Chicago Uber driver accused of raping a passenger last November have been dropped in light of new evidence, according to Cook County authorities.

Two separate class-action lawsuits against ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft will go to trial before juries after the companies failed to convince Federal judges on Wednesday that drivers who work for them should be considered contractors instead of employees.