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Last year, Uber, Lyft, DoorDash and Instacart succeeded in getting Californians to vote in favor of a ballot measure exempting them from classifying drivers and delivery workers as employees. Now, the companies are in the early stages of taking a similar approach in Massachusetts.

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A coalition of app-based ride-hailing and on-demand delivery companies including Lyft, Uber, Doordash and Instacart have filed a petition for a ballot initiative in Massachusetts that would keep gig economy workers classified as independent contractors as the industry takes a fight it won in California on the road. The ballot measure proposed by the Massachusetts [...]

Today after the bell, U.S. ride-hailing company Lyft reported its second quarter financial performance. In aggregate the company's performance was a rebound from the year-ago second quarter, which was heavily impacted by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting lockdowns in the United States. Lyft also managed to produce positive adjusted EBITDA in the [...]

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CEOs want workers back at their desks. Employees and the virus have other plans.

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After months of encouraging employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19, U.S. companies are beginning to take a harder line and roll out mandates -- a dramatic escalation of Corporate America's approach to halting the spread of the virus.

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The companies plan to begin offering the service this year, expanding later to Austin, Texas. A human will still be behind the wheel.

Argo and Ford will deploy driverless cars on Lyft's network in Miami and Austin.

Autonomous vehicle technology startup Argo AI and its backer and customer Ford plan to launch up to 1,000 self-driving vehicles on Lyft's ride-hailing network in a number of cities over the next five years starting with Miami and Austin. The first Ford self-driving vehicles, which are equipped with Argo's autonomous vehicle technology, will become available [...]

DETROIT (AP) -- Ford Motor Co. and a self-driving vehicle company it partly owns will join with the Lyft ride-hailing service to offer autonomous rides on the Lyft network.The service using Ford vehicles and a driving system developed by Pittsburgh-based Argo AI will begin in Miami later this year and start in Austin, Texas, in 2022.

Ford Motor Co. and a self-driving vehicle company it partly owns will join with the Lyft ride-hailing service to offer autonomous rides on the Lyft network

Workers for app companies call for better wages and protections for those seeking to unionize

Woven Planet Holdings, Inc. (Woven Planet), a subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation, announced the closing of the acquisition of Level 5, the self-driving division of Lyft, Inc. (Lyft), a proposed transaction previously announced in April 2021. This marks the first acquisition for Woven Planet, a group that is focused on mobility innovations and investments in automated driving, robotics, smart cities, and more. With the acquisition in place, Woven Planet will be provided with techno...

Shared rides were a key part of how the founders of Uber and Lyft envisioned disrupting transportation. Back in 2014, the companies raced each other to be first to announce their carpooling options, with the promise of creating a more efficient service that's also more affordable for riders.

Pressure builds at companies to make gig work more attractive; 'it is absolutely a reckoning'

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