New Orleans Airbnb, Uber, Twitter, Facebook, whatever, you pick what new phone app-driven techno billionaire wannabes, you worry about, and I’ll pick mine. Deep in your heart, you know Uber is taking advantage of its drivers and ripping everyone off on taxes and Social Security, but perhaps more deeply, the taxicab industry seemed be asking …
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Apps Might Revolutionize Foreign Travel
Mexico City Looking at three different websites, Mexico City was either the 5th, 10th, or 18th largest city in the world, but wherever we place it on the lists of huge, global population hubs, it’s big, but on Christmas Day the streets are virtually deserted, almost everything is closed that can manage to be closed, …
Uber Down, Taxis Up?
Little Rock Uber is supposedly worth $51 billion dollars according to Silicon Valley and some eyes-in-the-sky deep-pocketed investors. The company claims its business is providing an app on your phone or computer so you can summon a ride. Sometimes the ride is cheaper than a normal cab, since Uber is claiming not to be a …