Tag: Uber

Free business education and $50,000 in grant funding available to Uber drivers and delivery partners in Australia and New Zealand.

HERE WeGo Deliver enables small businesses to operate their own efficient delivery service. The tech simplifies complex algorithms to create an easy process and tool for dealing with multiple orders and drivers.  Like UberEats and other well-known delivery apps, it aims to reduce customer wait times whilst improving operational efficiency. Christoph Herzig, Head of Fleet Applications […]

Many businesses, including small businesses, will look at going public with their company via an Initial Public Offering (IPO) at some point on their business journey. Many well-known big players and ‘unicorns’ have taken this decision, such as Airbnb and Slack, and most recently Uber. Like most things, there are advantages and disadvantages of going […]

Uber priced its initial public offering at the low end of its targeted range to value the company at $US82.4 billion ($A118 billion), hoping the conservative approach would let it avoid the market chaos suffered by rival Lyft. Uber, the most high-profile US listing since Facebook seven years ago, raised $US8.1 billion ($A12 billion), pricing […]

Uber experiences a loss.

New report reveals Uber drivers are being ‘ripped off’.

Protest calls to increase UberX rates by at least 15 per cent.

“Uber changed the way business owners think and work in more ways than are instantly noticeable,” says Maria Bellissimo-Magrin, CEO of creative marketing agency Belgrin. Here she examines what business owners can learn from Uber’s actions. Launched in San Francisco in 2010, Uber quickly became one of the world’s most valued tech companies and widely-known brands and their […]

In recent years, disruptive forces have transformed how we think about entire industries. Spotify with music. Uber or Lyft with transport. Netflix with television programmes and films. Technology has changed the way that we think about things that we used to take for granted. Slowly but surely the way in which we think about offices, […]

Equity crowdfunding is a relatively new way for Australians to invest. It’s a smart way to collect donations for a charity cause or raise capital for new products and with recent changes to Australian investment laws, crowdfunding platforms can now be used to raise equity capital for a business startup. [Related: Aspiring ‘neobank’ Xinja raises $2.4m […]