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Judges at France's top court on Tuesday confirmed that ride-hailing app Uber must pay a fine for deceptive commercial practices and complicity in providing illegal taxi services over its early-2010s product Uber Pop. But French courts have repeatedly held that Uber was not simply putting riders in touch with drivers as it claimed, but instead offering an illegal taxi service.
A leak of more than 80,000 internal emails from Uber lays bare the ride-hailing company's law-skirting methods for insinuating itself into new markets and courting powerful figures to try to get its way.
A decision from the Brussels Court of Appeal to uphold a ban on American ride-hailing company Uber that prohibits its drivers from operating in the capital has sparked protests across Brussels this week.
Welcome back to "cnn newsroom." i'm george howell. cycling's most famous race kicks off in just a few hours' time. the 2015 tour de france begins in the netherlands with an individual time trial over 14 kilometers long a course that's about 8 1/2 miles long. 198 riders from 22 different teams will compete in the race. the winner of the tour will pick up the yellow jersey in paris on july 26th. uber has suspended its ride service uberpop in france after violent attacks there. cab drivers burned tires and blocked traffic last week arguing the company is unfair competition. uber drivers don't h...
That makes french taxicab drivers' blood boil. uberpop uses nonprofessional drivers. nearly anybody can become an uberpop driver. if i'm just going to the airport and want to see if anybody else is heading there and want to make a little extra money that way, even i can become an uberpop driver. now, a loott of people have said that it was clear that uberpop has been banned in france since october 2014. uber on the other hand said that wasn't clear and that they were contesting to further courts. now, after all the protests that we've seen in the past couple of weeks in france uber says they'r...