Your Private Driver: Billions of Dollars

This is a weekly column that offers news, insights, analysis, and user tips for rideshare platforms like Uber and Lyft. Look for it every Monday after the live show (well except for this past Monday cause of vacations and other stuff happening), right here on dailytechnewsshow.com. Uber’s financials are apparently not as rosy as everyone thought. DespiteContinue reading “Your Private Driver: Billions of Dollars”

Your Private Driver: Self-Driving Settlements and Other News Stuff

This is a weekly column that offers news, insights, analysis, and user tips for rideshare platforms like Uber and Lyft. Look for it every Monday after the live show, right here on dailytechnewsshow.com. Uber’s been in the news a lot this past week, and as a driver who will likely be affected in the future byContinue reading “Your Private Driver: Self-Driving Settlements and Other News Stuff”

Your Private Driver: Get me to the airport on time

This is a weekly column that offers news, insights, analysis, and user tips for rideshare platforms like Uber and Lyft. Look for it every Monday after the live show, right here on dailytechnewsshow.com. Your flight leaves at 5:30 AM tomorrow morning. You’ve enjoyed using Uber to get all over the city for business meetings, romantic dinners,Continue reading “Your Private Driver: Get me to the airport on time”

Your Private Driver: That’s Not How Compliments Work

This is a weekly column that offers news, insights, analysis, and user tips for rideshare platforms like Uber and Lyft. Look for it every Monday after the live show, right here on dailytechnewsshow.com. After the Democratic National Convention wrapped up in Philadelphia last week, Daily Beast reporter Olivia Nuzzi decided to take an Uber back toContinue reading “Your Private Driver: That’s Not How Compliments Work”

Your Private Driver: Everyone Out of the Pool

(This is a weekly column that offers news, insights, analysis, and user tips for rideshare platforms like Uber and Lyft. Look for it every Monday after the live show, right here on dailytechnewsshow.com.) When it was announced almost two years ago, UberPool seemed like a logical next step in the evolution of ridesharing. If two separateContinue reading “Your Private Driver: Everyone Out of the Pool”

Your Private Driver: Lost and Found

(This is a weekly column that offers news, insights, analysis, and user tips for rideshare platforms like Uber and Lyft. Look for it every Monday after the live show, right here on dailytechnewsshow.com.) A week ago, the unthinkable happened: my wife, carrying the only set of keys between us, left them in the back seat ofContinue reading “Your Private Driver: Lost and Found”

Your Private Driver: Picking Up the Kids

(This is the second entry of a new weekly column that offers news, insights, analysis, and user tips for rideshare platforms like Uber and Lyft. Look for it every Monday after the live show, right here on dailytechnewsshow.com.) For busy parents, Uber has become an essential part of their daily routine. The logistics of maintaining aContinue reading “Your Private Driver: Picking Up the Kids”

Your Private Driver: Safety First

(This is the first of a new weekly column that offers news, insights, analysis, and user tips for rideshare platforms like Uber and Lyft. Look for it every Monday after the live show, right here on dailytechnewsshow.com.)   Passenger safety is definitely a hot topic in the world of ride-sharing. Hardly a week goes byContinue reading “Your Private Driver: Safety First”