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    This Month

    Emma Foley is Uber’s new Australian managing director, while Ed Kitchen will run Uber Eats.

    New Uber bosses to see through gig economy transition

    There will be new heads of both Uber and Uber Eats in Australia, ahead of gig economy rules that threaten to significantly raise its cost of doing business.

    • Paul Smith
    Susan Anderson Global VP Uber Retail and Grocery in Sydney this week.

    Uber’s new retail boss has a plan to shake up groceries in Australia

    Susan Anderson says online penetration for the $130 billion Australian grocery sector is still low. She predicts a big step change within the next few years.

    • Patrick Durkin

    April

    Ola told drivers on Tuesday night that it was ceasing operations in several Australian cities.

    Uber’s dominance in Australia intensifies as Ola exits

    Corporate records show Ola’s Indian parent company spent $142 million on its Australian outpost.

    • Nick Bonyhady
    GoCatch founders Andrew Campbell and Ned Moorfield pictured in 2013, before they allegedly fell out over the company’s direction.

    GoCatch was shedding passengers before UberX arrived, court told

    Ned Moorfield, the co-founder of failed start-up GoCatch, has been grilled under cross-examination during the second week of a damages case against Uber.

    • Gus McCubbing
    GoCatch co-founder Andrew Campbell arrives at Court on the first day of the trial on Tuesday.

    Uber and GoCatch stagger out for round two of court case

    Nobody expected a clean fight when GoCatch called out Uber for huge damages, but startling details in the first week of the trial have left both sides wounded.

    • Paul Smith
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    GoCatch founders Andrew Campbell and Ned Moorfield pictured in 2013, before they allegedly fell out over the company’s direction.

    Founder fights and investor fury exposed as Uber makes its case

    Investors in fallen transport app GoCatch were alarmed by its lack of progress and wanted to sack its co-founders around the time UberX launched in Australia, private emails show.

    • Paul Smith
    Uber’s barrister has begun its defence against accusations it deliberately set out to harm GoCatch.

    ‘Not honourable, but lawful’: Uber justifies using spyware on rival

    Uber’s lawyers said taking private data from its rival GoCatch was not like burglary, and compared its lawbreaking to publishers selling Lady Chatterley’s Lover.

    • Paul Smith

    Uber admits to illegal activity at launch in Australia

    A Melbourne trial to judge if Uber unfairly scuttled a rival’s business has begun with the ridesharing giant admitting it operated illegally in Australia a decade ago.

    • Paul Smith
    Well before the ridesharing giant dominated, it had a big local rival. This week, Victorian courts will hear explosive claims of how it killed the competition.

    Uber’s ‘espionage plot’ to ‘crush’ Packer-backed rival GoCatch

    Well before the ride-sharing giant dominated, it had a big local rival. This week, Victorian courts will hear explosive claims of how it killed the competition.

    • Paul Smith

    March

    Federal Court judge Michael Lee.

    Lee rebukes TWU’s monopoly

    The court cases involving Uber and Qantas raised different questions about legalised business and union monopolies.

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    Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt, playing former CEO of Uber, Travis Kalanick.

    Uber’s court loss comes straight from the silver screen

    The ride-sharing group’s decision to settle a class action with 8000 taxi drivers raises fascinating questions about the price of disruption.

    • James Thomson
    The ASX extended its rout.

    ASX extends rout; Markets’ big test; Uber pays taxi drivers $272m

    Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.

    Uber operated illegally in Australia for years to crack the market. Now it has reached a settlement with some taxi drivers.

    Uber pays Aussie taxi drivers $272m in class action settlement

    Lawyers behind one of the top five class actions in Australian legal history say the US giant will pay compensation for initially operating illegally.

    • Paul Smith

    February

    If you are a cash machine and the Street is still relatively cautious in the way it values your business, one of the best uses of cash you can do is to buy back your own stock,” New Street’s Pierre Ferragu said.

    Uber unveils near-$11b buyback plan in first for company

    The capital plan marks another milestone of financial health for the tech company, and follows decisions at Meta Platforms and Airbnb to boost returns to shareholders.

    • Natalie Lung

    December 2023

    A2B operates the 13Cabs brand, along with some of the country’s other major taxi services.

    Singapore giant in $182m buyout of 13cabs operator A2B

    A2B, known as Cabcharge until 2018 and the operator of several taxi brands, is recommending investors accept the $1.45 per share offer lobbed by ComfortDelGro.

    • Simon Evans
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    Blackbird co-founders Niki Scevak  and Rick Baker operate under a tagline saying they invest in companies, not funding rounds.

    ‘Australian Tiger Global’: VCs firms split over investment strategy

    Blackbird Ventures is using its size to pay more for stakes in early-stage start-ups than many of its rivals, who say it could eventually hurt founders.

    • Nick Bonyhady

    November 2023

    Brodie Haupt, co-founder and CEO of WLTH, and Selda Kaplan, co-founder and CEO of TaxLeopard.

    Two Australian fintech deals close as acquisition season kicks off

    A Brisbane digital lender has bought out one of its rivals, while TaxLeopard has acquired a firm that provides software to help Uber drivers do their accounting.

    • Paul Smith
    Minister for Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke said the amendments ensure minimum gig worker conditions are “fit for purpose”.

    Labor makes concessions on gig economy laws

    Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke has sought to address Uber’s concerns over Labor’s proposed gig worker conditions by limiting penalty rates.

    • David Marin-Guzman
    Uber global chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi in the company’s Sydney office last October.

    Has Uber finally solved its ‘employee’ problem?

    A settlement in New York shows the preconditions necessary for the rideshare company to settle its fight with the government over pay rules.

    • Nick Bonyhady

    October 2023

    Gig economy workers have no rights to minimum wages, penalty rates or workers’ compensation schemes.

    Australia is Uber’s crown jewel after ‘collections’ surge to $9.2b

    But new labour laws are likely to mean the company’s customers face higher prices as wages go up. The TWU says the jump in sales supports the need for change.

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