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I’ve asked Uber for clarification on its map/screen saver. I don’t know if we’ll get a straight answer about this, but there is a good reason why Uber would want to manipulate its passenger ...
An Uber customer has accused the application of lying about the real-time nature of its car map, sparking a debate.
Called Kepler.gl, the software maps location data and runs entirely in your web browser, processing up to a million data points to create beautiful map-based visualizations. Uber recently made ...
Uber has been weathering quite a storm lately, but the ride hailing company wants to remind you: It also builds technology, and not just serious sexism scandals. On Wednesday, Travis Kalanick's ...
Uber filed for its IPO on Thursday. Its S-1 showed that it spent $58 million on Google Maps between 2016 and 2018.
Ride-hailing company Uber is willing to pay up to $3 billion for HERE, a Nokia-owned mapping service that competes with Google Maps.
Other updates outside of Uber's main ride-sharing focus were announced, like new safety features, especially timely with a recent Washington Post report about mishandled safety procedures. Soon ...
Uber is to spend $500 million on mapping the world's roads as part of a broader plan to roll out a fleet of self-driving cars. The investment, first reported by The Financial Times, is ostensibly ...
Google said Thursday that it is adding ride-hailing services Lyft and Gett as transportation options in its Google Maps app for U.S. users, breaking Uber Technologies Inc.’s exclusive hold on ...
Uber plans to invest $500 million into a global mapping project that will decrease (and eventually nix) its dependency on Google Maps, according to the Financial Times. The report says the ride ...