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    • Tuesday, 15 November, 2022
      Bird Rides Inc
      E-scooter pioneer Bird warns over future amid cash squeeze

      Miami-based company says there is doubt about its ability to ‘continue as a going concern’

    • Thursday, 11 August, 2022
      LexElectric vehicles
      Scooters/Bird: mobility craze crashes into the kerb Premium content

      Market has been scuppered by high cost of maintenance and dearth of riders in pandemic

    • Tuesday, 22 March, 2022
      FT MagazineElaine Moore
      Why San Francisco turned sour on Uber, Lyft and other ride-hailing apps

      A new service hopes to offer something new to drivers and riders. But it shouldn’t expect an easy ride

    • Thursday, 13 January, 2022
      LexAutomobiles
      Holiday car hire: sharing economy unprofitable for peer-to-peer groups Premium content

      Rental shortage should be a boost for companies that connect drivers with vehicle owners but they are struggling to make a profit

    • Wednesday, 17 March, 2021
      Uber: the wheel keeps spinning

      PR puff can’t disguise a broken business model.

    • Tuesday, 17 November, 2020
      ExplainerAirbnb Inc
      Five takeaways from Airbnb’s IPO filing

      Growth slows at short-term booking platform as it prepares for December listing

    • Thursday, 13 August, 2020
      FT AlphavilleAshley Nunes
      Ride-hailing’s collapsing house of cards

      Uber and Lyft need to prove they’re economically viable, but doing so while keeping its customer base seems impossible.

    • Tuesday, 9 June, 2020
      Lawsuit calls for end to city tracking of e-scooter and bike rides

      LA suit argues that officials’ collection of location data from ‘micromobility’ services is unconstitutional

    • Tuesday, 19 May, 2020
      LexAutomobiles
      Car sharing: steer clear Premium content

      Virus may have hit ride-hailing and car pooling but revived interest in ownership will be temporary

    • Thursday, 27 February, 2020
      COVID-19: Short the sharing economy

      Turns out, no one wants to share stuff when there’s disease about.

    • Wednesday, 12 February, 2020
      FT AlphavilleJamie Powell
      Uber’s fairytale of rational competition

      Dara channels Descartes.

    • Tuesday, 4 February, 2020
      News in-depthFT Alphaville
      Why Uber won’t own its autonomous cars

      And what that tells us about the viability of the autonomous sector as a whole.

    • Tuesday, 28 January, 2020
      Inside BusinessHenny Sender
      Investors embrace millennial co-living in Asia’s megacities

      Sequoia and Warburg Pincus are funding sharing companies despite WeWork collapse

    • Tuesday, 10 December, 2019
      LexTechnology sector
      Uber: steer clear  Premium content

      Company shares are trading 38 per cent below their listing price

    • Thursday, 5 December, 2019
      Share your car to make it go further

      Most automobiles are woefully underused. Subscription schemes may be the answer

    • Friday, 27 September, 2019
      FT AlphavilleJemima Kelly
      Ride-sharing apps can’t save the planet (obv)

      But they can come up with excellent green-flavoured marketing strategies. 

    • Tuesday, 24 September, 2019
      scoutAsia Research
      China’s chastened bike-sharing survivors chase profits Premium content

      Bruising battle for market share over as regulators and big tech firms get involved

    • Wednesday, 28 August, 2019
      FT MagazineElaine Moore
      Home is where the convenience app is

      Large sums are being poured into service companies that replicate the jobs parents do for small children

    • Tuesday, 13 August, 2019
      FT AlphavilleJamie Powell
      Business flows are the new capital flows

      Deliveroo pulls out of Germany with four days’ notice.

    • Monday, 12 August, 2019
      FT AlphavilleJamie Powell
      A delirious defence of Uber

      “Investors who dumped Uber stock last week are idiots.”

    • Monday, 15 July, 2019
      News in-depthFT Alphaville
      How not to dispute a story, Bird edition

      The electric scooter company swings hard, and misses.

    • Monday, 15 July, 2019
      Hellobike eases past China’s cycle-sharing pack

      Alibaba unit Ant Financial is biggest investor in rare survivor of brutal price wars

    • Friday, 28 June, 2019
      Lex
      Bike schemes: road show Premium content

      Predicting the success of bicycle-sharing systems is not easy

    • Wednesday, 15 May, 2019
      WeWork
      WeWork to buy co-founder’s property stakes with new $2.9bn fund

      Shared office space provider will purchase Adam Neumann’s interests at cost

    • Monday, 25 February, 2019
      China’s Airbnb sees serving the landlords as path to profit Premium content

      Home-sharing site Xiaozhu wants to do more than match hosts with guests as clouds gather

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