Unable to beat them, cabbies join Uber and Lyft in ride sharing


  • TECH
  • Wednesday, 08 Nov 2017

Taxi cabs drive past the 666 Fifth Avenue building in New York, U.S., on Monday, July 24, 2017. Kushner Cos., the family business of Donald Trump's top adviser Jared Kushner, owes hundreds of millions of dollars on the 41-story office building. It has failed to secure foreign investors, despite an extensive search, and its resources are more limited than generally understood. Photographer: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg

Taxi companies across the US waged a bitter, high-profile battle to keep Uber Technologies Inc and Lyft Inc from bringing the sharing economy to cabs. 

They lost. 

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