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Lyft logo is seen in this illustration taken June 27, 2022. The app is available in over 150 cities across nine countries, including Ireland, the U.K., Germany and France. Beyond traditional taxi and ride-hailing services, FreeNow also offers other mobility options including e-scooters, e-mopeds and e-bikes. Founded in 2009 as myTaxi, FreeNow is a ride-hailing platform headquartered in Hamburg, Germany. The company has been jointly owned by German automotive giants BMW and Mercedes-Benz since
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is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Lyft said it is acquiring mobility platform FreeNow, giving the ridehailing company its first major presence in Europe after years of operating exclusively in the US and Canada. FreeNow aggregates taxis alongside private vehicles, including luxury rides. The acquisition of FreeNow nearly doubles Lyft’s potential market and
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Ride-hailing giant Lyft said it has agreed to acquire FREENOW, a German multi-mobility app with ride-hail at its core, from BMW and Mercedes-Benz Mobility for about $197 million in cash. The acquisition opens up the European market to Lyft for the first time. The company has only operated in the U.S. and Canada since it launched in 2012, compared to its biggest rival Uber, which operates globally. FREENOW operates in nine countries and more than 150 cities across Austria, France, Germany, Gree
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Lyft logo is seen in this illustration taken June 27, 2022. U.S. ride-hailing firm Lyft on Wednesday announced that it's buying European taxi app Free Now in a 175 million euro ($199 million) deal. The company said that the acquisition — Lyft's first in Europe — is expected to close in the second half of 2025, and that, once combined, the two companies will serve over 50 million combined annual users. Founded in 2009 as myTaxi, Free Now is a ride-hailing platform headquartered in Hamburg, Ger
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Anvi Ahuja noticed a "freaky" new text message from a number she didn't know right after getting back to her downtown Toronto apartment last month. The text was a transcript of the conversation she'd just had with her roommates during their eight-minute Lyft ride home from a friend's place. "I was like 'who is tapping me?'" Ahuja said. "The driver didn't inform us that we could be recorded." Within a few minutes she called the number the text came from and heard this looping, automated messag
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It's no secret that "driving while black" is a real phenomenon. Study after study has shown that minority drivers are ticketed at a higher rate, and data from speed cameras suggests that it's not because they commit traffic violations more frequently. But this leaves open the question of why. Bias is an obvious answer, but it's hard to eliminate an alternative explanation: Minority groups may engage in more unsafe driving, and the police are trying to deter that. But now, Lyft has given a group
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is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Lyft will let users in Atlanta catch robotaxi rides starting this summer, as reported by NBC News. “Atlanta riders will have the opportunity to be matched with a fleet of autonomous Toyota Sienna minivans equipped with May Mobility’s autonomous technology, a deployment that Lyft and May Mobility aim to scale over time across multiple markets,” Lyft spokesperson CJ Macklin tel
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Hi HN! I’m Alex, and along with my co-founder Kunaal, we are thrilled to introduce SubImage ( https://subimage.io ): a tool that lets your security team fix issues before they’re found by attackers. Teams use SubImage to map their infrastructure and emulate adversary behavior. Here’s a video of how I would use it to hack our own company: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_meu4_aIVA SubImage is our hosted offering built on top of Cartography (https://github.com/cartography-cncf/cartography), the
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