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Uber for business is really a no-brainer. Uber has started Uber for business a new feature that allows companies to sign up for Uber. This new service allows companies to have a "corporate" account with their company payment information on file. Now, those Uber customers who's companies are participating can affiliate themselves with that company [...]
Ride sharing and alternative transportation services have gotten a lot of bad press over the past few months. While Uber just closed a behemoth round of funding at a $17 billion dollar valuation, it seems that every new municipality they, or competitors like Lyft, try and set up shop in, they quickly get shut down [...]
Uber, the on demand black car app, is widely known for it's good service and it's price gouging, or surge, as they call it. They're also known for throwing some great parties. At this past weekends Coachella music festival they got the chance to blend both. There's a wide variety of Uber photos from Coachella [...]
Winter is already in full swing for the North East and other parts of the country. All summer long people can't wait until the first snow fall, then it arrives and the world comes to a stand still. Other than cabin fever and Walmart running out of bread milk and toilet paper, the next biggest [...]
So you've embraced the sharing economy when it comes to places to stay and transportation. You're using airbnb instead of hotels.com and you're using Uber and Lyft instead of the local taxicab company. Now it's time to navigate the kinks. One of the biggest pains for Uber and Lyft users is getting a straight idea [...]
We've all heard that Uber's CEO Travis Klanick is a driven, competitive leader. He's driving Uber to meet and than beat every new viable feature from every competing app out there to continue to reign supreme as the car hailing service. But now, multiple reports are suggesting that Uber may be getting downright dirty. BGR/Yahoo [...]
Uber, the car hailing app company that just raised a round of funding at a whopping $17 billion (or $5.9 billion depending on what you read) valuation, is known for their fun promotions. During the 2013 inauguration Uber users in DC got to experience riding in a presidential motorcade. The company has also delivered ice [...]
Amazon is delivering fresh groceries with same day delivery in some markets and they plan on expanding that service at a rapid pace. There are other grocery stores and stand alone apps that will allow consumers to also order their groceries on the web or on their smartphone to be delivered at a time more [...]
Back in November, before we realized that the winter of 2014 would have more snow than all the previous winters combined, we reported on a geinus app called Plowz. Plowz is the Uber of snow plowing, connecting home owners and business owners with an on-demand fleet of snow removers. Trust me they had a great [...]
(photo courtesy: Helsinki Transit Authority) Often times we take for granted the technology and innovation that comes out of Helsinki and Finland in general. Finland gave us Nokia, Angry Birds, and depending on who you ask, Skype. Of course there's hundreds of other tech companies that have made some sort of dent into [...]
It is no secret that the Windows Phone App store is pretty barren. Sure, you have all of the standard Facebook's and Twitter's, but there is an incredible distance between the sort of selection you find on the Google Play Store or iTunes App Store. While the selection is sparse, the market share of [...]
Transportation apps are catching on like wildfire. Hailo, Taxi Magic, and Uber have become household names in the markets they serve. Uber has been front and center with some great promotions, delivering everything from cats, to Christmas trees to ice cream. They've equally made headlines by price gauging, something that Uber CEO Travis Kalanick rigorously [...]
As Uber and Lyft and every other ride-sharing company continue to pick up steam, the supply of drivers is struggling to meet the demand for rides. However, a new San Francisco company, Breeze, wants to make it easier for people to join in the ride-sharing economy
A few days ago, on May 6, Google released a massive update to Google Maps. This update comes packed with a ton of new features. Among these features is one that users have been requesting for a long time, lane guidance. The Google Maps app now shows you which lane to stay in or move [...]
Having a busy week? Blizzard got you indoors just reading tech news? Well here's your Techfaster rewind recapping five of yesterday's tech stories. An Uber driver/partner in San Francisco was involved in an accident where a six year old girl died. Although he wasn't on an Uber ride at the time, is Uber stil liable? [...]
Xiaomi - a Chinese smartphone manufacturer - just raised a whopping $1 billion round of funding. While that alone is quite significant, the valuation is the real surprise. The $1 billion round was raised with a valuation north of $45 billion. This essentially makes Xiaomi one of the most valuable startups: That makes it one of the [...]
MobileIron, an enterprise mobility management and mobile security company, just announced that it has closed a Series F round, raising $48 million. With this raise as a prompt, we took a look at the largest rounds of 2013 so far.
Passwords got you down? Well it doesn't look like we'll be seeing Apple's new TouchID on future iterations of the Macbook or Macbook anytime soon. Where would you even put a finger print scanner? Well if you're either uber lazy or looking for a way to unlock your Macbook that's uber secure than there's a [...]
Will the Real ‘Disruptor’ Please Stand Up? May I have your attention, please? Countless entrepreneurs use the words “innovative,” “game-changing,” and “disruptive” to describe their services, solutions, or platforms. The only problem is that oftentimes when founders use buzzwords like these, they don’t actually know what they mean. It’s become hip to associate innovation with [...]
South By Southwest Interactive is finally here and the crappy weather that we had for SXSWedu earlier this week is taking a break (at least for today). Want to know where you can grab some wifi, power up your smartphone or tablet and even grab a Red Bull. Well come by the Hilton Garden Inn [...]
