Uber granted appeal in landmark legal case over employment status of drivers as workers or self-employed April 19, 2017 Uber has been granted an appeal in a landmark legal battle over the employment status of its drivers in the UK. The multi-billion dollar startup will return to court later this year to argue against an employment tribunal ruling which last year said that Uber drivers should be classed as workers and are not self-employed. [...]
Hailo merges with Daimler-owned MyTaxi to take on Uber in London March 13, 2017 There's no shortage of taxis and minicabs in the capital, with an array of companies competing for passengers, from Uber to Gett to Addison Lee, and of course London’s stalwarts: the black cabs. So, it may seem rather late in the game for a cab company to try and make inroads in the market, but Mytaxi [...]
Ford plans to bring its Chariot commuter shuttle bus to London November 5, 2017 Ford’s commuter shuttle bus network could soon be coming to the capital. The firm’s Chariot service uses a fleet of Ford 15-seater transit vans to ferry passengers along popular routes in the likes of San Francisco and Austin, Texas, as well as New York. It looks to supplement public transit bus routes and local trains [...]
A million tech jobs? The race is on to define London’s digital future June 11, 2018 London is a city defined by numbers: 11 tube lines whisk us across the capital with ease and efficiency, 22 football stadiums attract spectators every weekend, 40,000 Ubers offer us a comfortable ride home, and 100 languages are spoken in every borough, creating the greatest melting pot in the world. The city must now strive [...]
Uber wins right to appeal Transport for London’s (TfL) English written tests for private hire drivers as court date is set for 20 February 2018 | City A.M. June 27, 2017 Transport for London (TfL) has announced it will push back the introduction of a written English language test for private hire drivers from September this year to April 2018, after Uber won its right to appeal the matter. The case will be heard from 20 February next year. The ride-hailing app lost a High Court [...]
12 Hay Hill in Mayfair shows shared workspaces are going upmarket to capture the professional crowd September 3, 2018 Coworking spaces seem to be taking over the city. Right now, the largest private-sector occupier of office space in central London isn’t a tech firm or major bank. It’s WeWork, a leading provider of shared workspaces. And coworking is big business: WeWork was valued at £27bn in June, making it the world’s second most valuable [...]
Open banking is a test of trust for financial firms: What lenders face in their quest to win customers’ confidence March 5, 2018 Open banking, the new initiative threatening to tear up the banking rule book, has the power to revolutionise how people manage their money. For the first time, customers will be able to give companies other than their bank access to their financial data, opening retail and business banking to fresh competition and delivering more choice, [...]
Uber’s financials just leaked – here’s how much it lost December 20, 2016 Uber's losses clocked in at $800m in the third quarter of the year, according to leaked documents. It brings total losses to more than $2.2bn for the first nine months of the year, while revenues for the startup are expected to come in at $5.5bn for the year, according to the figures first reported by The Information, indicating [...]
Daimler invests in What3Words, a British tech startup mapping the entire world with words January 10, 2018 Daimler has taken a stake in an innovative British mapping startup that created an entirely new postcode system for Mongolia last year. The German carmaker behind Mercedes has taken a 10 per cent stake in What3Words, a startup creating a three word address for each nine square area on the planet. The deal, the value [...]
My House: Legendary astrologist and spiritual teacher Shelley Von Strunckel tells us how her King’s Cross apartment gets her in the zone July 5, 2018 I used to live in a mews house in Marylebone and before that in a Victorian gothic mansion block. Now I live in a loft in King’s Cross that’s surrounded by water, which is one of the reasons I bought it – I find it soothing, but it’s also very good feng shui. I’ve lived [...]