If you use ride-hailing apps, you've seen it happen. You hop on the Uber or Lyft app one moment to check out the price of a trip, then you look back a few minutes later to discover that surge ...

Uber tweaks its driver app ... When drivers need to cancel a trip, the app ... Both Uber and Lyft’s IPOs under-performed amid questions about the industry’s tendency to lose vast sums of cash.

Uber is updating its app to address driver feedback and passenger safety concerns. ... The Verge reports that drivers will want a bonus for completing 20 trips in a certain amount of time, ...

Before launching the new app, Uber consulted with hundreds of drivers and beta tested the app ... who has a 4.96 rating after four years and 7,000 trips for Uber. “We drivers are the face of ...

Data from app analytics firm Apptopia found the number of daily active users on the Lyft and Uber driver-only apps for the past three months dropped 42.3 percent and 37.5 percent, respectively ...

The app Activehours will give drivers access to their pay right away, instead of waiting for payment to process through Uber. And Sears has a loyalty program targeted to drivers.

With the new app, Uber makes it easy for drivers to recognize where surge, boost and incentivized areas are located. “Say you’re in a slow area,” Yamashita said.

Uber said it is also rolling out systems, in the same cities as the “Upfront Fares” feature, to let drivers choose from a list of trips, and to get recaps of weekly earnings, including Uber ...

Integrating the Uber driver app into CarPlay means drivers won’t have to switch between their phone and the screen, or between apps, to be able to view and accept trips, navigate and add rides ...

The redesigned apps use a blend of in-house and third-party provided data. Uber has its own fleet of street-mapping cars, but these are meant predominantly to help its self-driving vehicles.The ...

The drivers aren’t alone in juggling Uber and Lyft. Passengers will often call up each app to see if one ride is substantially cheaper. Both Google Maps and Apple Maps display some ride-share ...