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HotelTonight And Lyft Can Now Be Expensed by 30M Employees Via Concur
Concur, the travel management and expense toolset that was purchased about a year ago by SAP, announced that it is partnering with HotelTonight and Lyft to allow employees to easily expense the two services. Used by over 20,000 businesses and 30 million employees, the platform is an easy way for employees to book and get reimbursed for travel and other expenses. After linking your… Read More
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More Startup Funding Is Available, But Who’s Getting It?
Last year was fantastic for startup fundraising, continuing an upward trend with a dramatic increase to more than $47 billion (a 62 percent increase from 2013’s figures). On the surface, this is great news — more venture capitalists are pouring more money into startups, thereby increasing the amount of available resources for new ideas. Read More
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Lyft Experiment Lets Passengers Rate Each Other And Connect After The Ride Is Over
It reads like the plot of an awful but inevitable romantic comedy: two strangers share a Lyft Line. Sparks fly; love blooms. Just as passenger No. 2 is working up the guts to ask passenger No. 1 on a date, passenger No. 1 arrives at their destination — in a rush, of course — and disappears into the night. LOVE LOST. Or is it? Lyft is experimenting with allowing Line passengers… Read More
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Instacart Is Quietly Working With Third Parties To Outsource (Some Of) Its Deliveries
Instacart, the on-demand grocery delivery startup that is reportedly valued north of $2 billion, is growing fast in 15 markets throughout the country. As it seeks to meet that demand, the company has begun experimenting with outsourcing deliveries through third-party companies, according to people familiar with the company’s plans. Read More
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Lyft’s Former VP Of Ops Stephen Schnell Defects To Uber
Uber’s putting that $1.2 billion in funding to good use poaching execs from its top competitor. After hiring former Lyft COO Travis VanderZanden earlier this month, Uber has now scored Lyft’s former VP of Operations Stephen Schnell to work on international supply growth, according to Schnell’s LinkedIn. Bloomberg reporter Serena Saitto tweeted about the move earlier. Read More
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For A Little While, I Felt Like The Richest Man In Lyft-Ville
Here’s a fun way to start your weekend: Getting a message from Lyft about the fact that you have $1,275 worth of free ride credits. No, that’s not a typo, and yes, that’s really a message that I got on Firday evening. Now technically, I knew about those credits already, because after the “will they/won’t they” drama of Lyft’s launch in New York, I was… Read More
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Lyft Will Not Launch In New York Today, Company Says It Will Work With Taxi Commission
New Yorkers hoping to catch a ride with Lyft today are out of luck. The company said via email and on its blog that it’s putting off its NYC launch. Lyft had announced launch plans for Brooklyn and Queens earlier this week, and it said yesterday that it would move forward with those plans despite the fact that the city’s Taxi and Limousine Commission said the service did not… Read More
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