News

Google Maps users can now hail an Uber car and pay for it without having to open or even install the Uber mobile app. Within the Google Maps app, you can tap on the ride-hailing icon, which lists ...
An Uber customer has accused the application of lying about the real-time nature of its car map, sparking a debate.
Fifteen million people take Uber rides every day, and they generate a lot of data. In fact, two years ago Uber began building its own mapping tool to process all of it. Called Kepler.gl, the ...
Like Google and even Tesla, Uber wants to map the world down to the right-hand lane and Australia is the focus of its latest effort. Following mapping projects in the U.S., Canada and the UK, as ...
Working-class people in underserved communities need Uber — or, at least, that's what Uber's aggressive ad campaign is telling you. The message: In cities like New York, the low-income ...
Last week news broke that Uber acquired a significant chunk of Microsoft Bing’s mapping assets. This included about 100 employees and guesstimates of licensed intellectual property from the ...
Ride-hailing giant Uber Technologies plans to map streets and gather data in downtown Dallas this fall to help support its development of self-driving cars. The San Francisco-based company said ...
It’s not a good feeling when your Uber driver tells you he doesn’t know where you are on the map. In this case, it was entirely my fault. I’d asked him how he liked the new Uber Navigation ...
If you've ever wondered why Uber will show you a horde of available cars but still quote you an oddly long wait time for a ride, you now have an explanation: some of those cars don't exist ...
Uber will deploy several dozen vehicles across several cities in the country, with an ongoing plan to map any city in Mexico where Uber is available. “What mobile maps really did was demonstrate ...
We have confirmed directly with Uber that TomTom will be providing data for the driving app alone. It is not replacing Google Maps, nor any other services that Uber currently uses.