Lyft News | Sep 13, 2024
Jerry Freund tweeted that Walmart is seriously looking to acquire Lyft...
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🌎 lyft.comLyft is a rideshare company founded in 2012 by Logan Green and John Zimmer. It is available to approximately 95 percent of the United States population as well as select cities in Canada. Lyft is committed to effecting positive change for cities by offsetting carbon emissions from all rides and promoting transportation equity through shared rides, bikeshare systems, electric scooters, and public transit partnerships.
Updates as of Sep 13, 2024
- Jerry Freund tweeted that Walmart is seriously looking to acquire Lyft.
- A customer sued Lyft in Broward County after an incident causing permanent injuries, and Lyft filed a motion to compel arbitration.
- On September 9, 2024, Christopher Davis filed a product liability case against Lyft Bike And Scooters, LLC and Lyft, Inc. in Kings County, NY.
- A Lyft driver in Texas filed a lawsuit after a passenger from Memorial Hermann Hospital attacked him, causing severe emotional distress.
- Lyft has removed rentals from the list of available transportation options.
- Bipin G. has left Lyft as a Senior Engineering Manager to join AllTrails as a Director of Engineering in the United States.
- Erin Rheaume has joined Lyft as Senior Director, Investor Relations in the United States, previously holding a position in the same role at another company.
- Lyft shared its experiences using Protocol Buffers for inter-system integration, focusing on collaborative protocol design to improve knowledge sharing, consistency, and development process quality.
- Lyft will host the sfBIG Her Success event at its headquarters on September 12th.
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