You can’t hold a good ride-sharing app down.
Via Opportunity Lives:
The innovative ridesharing app Uber is rolling out two new initiatives after coming out on top of several major disputes with government bureaucrats.
Uber announced this week that it would be rolling out their API to a select group of third party partners like Starbucks, TripAdvisor, and United Airlines. That news comes immediately after the company went public with plans for a “corner store” delivery service. All of this follows Uber’s recent victory over the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) after they had briefly ordered it to cease operations in the state.
The Virginia DMV aren’t the only ones after the taxi alternative. The District of Columbia has threatened the business several times over the last two years. Each time the public outcry was intense and the city backed down. However, that doesn’t mean the city is giving up.
To put it simply, riders and drivers across the globe love Uber. Our platform opens up more options for riders and economic opportunities for drivers.”
Many other state and local governments aren’t giving up either. From Louisville to Ann Arbor to California bureaucrats have Uber squarely in their sites. Nearly all of the regulations, Uber says, would make it harder and more expensive to operate. Some of the rules might even make it impossible for them to do business, they say.This hasn’t stopped the company though.
In fact, the big new ventures Uber has undertaken are arriving just two short months after the company was valued at over $17 billion. One Business Insider analyst even predicted it could be the next $100 billion company. At the same time, Uber’s CEO told the Wall Street Journal the company’s revenue has been “at least doubling every six months.”
As Mashable put it recently, “It’s Uber’s World, We’re All Just Riding in It.”