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04-15-2017, 12:47 AM
'Hell' is just the most recent in a long list of alleged shady Uber practices
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In Silicon Valley, how far you're willing to go to win is often seen as a predictor of future success. Perhaps that's why Uber's investors have pumped almost $9 billion (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/uber#/entity) into the company.*
Uber's already storied history of shady practices and dirty tricks grew longer on Thursday after The Information reported that the ride-hailing giant had been using software to track Lyft drivers and then using that data to offer incentives to only drive for Uber.*
That software, which Uber internally called "Hell," helps provide a more complete look at the lengths to which Uber has gone to torpedo its main competitor. To fully understand this scene — and just how Uber and Lyft became so competitive — let's go back to the heady days of 2013. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/04/14/uber-hell-most-recent-in-list-of-shady-practices/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Uber's already storied history of shady practices and dirty tricks grew longer on Thursday after The Information reported that the ride-hailing giant had been using software to track Lyft drivers and then using that data to offer incentives to only drive for Uber.*
That software, which Uber internally called "Hell," helps provide a more complete look at the lengths to which Uber has gone to torpedo its main competitor. To fully understand this scene — and just how Uber and Lyft became so competitive — let's go back to the heady days of 2013. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/04/14/uber-hell-most-recent-in-list-of-shady-practices/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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