Archive for the ‘CabCorner’ Category

Perhaps you heard about our competitor’s run-in with the law: an Uber-affiliated cab driver was pulled over in Washington and the driver was ticketed… and despite degrees in both law and business, I have no freaking idea why.
Apparently, Uber’s owner doesn’t either.  Nor does the City Council, which concedes that what Uber was doing is [...]

Eric Goldwyn raises a number of good points in this short piece he recently penned for New York magazine. Chiefly among them, is the issue of enforcement and regulation as it pertains to just how encouraging or discouraging this new policy, as proposed by the TLC, will be in helping to move the practice of hailing a [...]

Clipping from the Financial Times, November 24th, 2011:

Smartphone apps for hailing cabs
By Alexandra Stevenson

App for that: London is a centre for taxi app makers

Here’s a scenario familiar to many urban professionals: it’s late, you’re tired and you desperately want to get home. You call a cab company and the operator says a car is on [...]

Tomorrow, CabCorner will be attending a transportation conference at John Jay College on the upper west side of Manhattan. To better understand the challenges that are facing New York City as well as many other metropolises with aging transportation networks, one must look at what is happening in the area of public/private partnerships to see [...]

In the earliest months of CabCorner’s adventures in the media, much was made of the fact that my partner Jon and I had met at Wesleyan University–where he had subjected to me countless wonderful trials while inducting me into our fraternity.  And a few years after our respective graduations, we reconnected to birth what has [...]

Dearest Readers:
About fourteen months ago, we received several emails from newly-acquired CabCorner users (who had just read about us in various local media outlets) that expressed joy for having found our solution to the “lonely taxi problem,” as one writer characterized it.  (They were referring to the lack of cab-sharing options prior to the introduction [...]

We here at CabCorner have admired Zimride’s model for quite some time.  Although the company operates in a slightly different space, it is a fellow player in the ridesharing sector.  Both Zimride and CabCorner share very similar goals: to save people money and reduce pollution by facilitating shared rides.
But whereas CabCorner began operations in the [...]

We are all very excited about the new relationship we have built with Skyline Credit rides. And to show our appreciation to both Skyline as well as our CabCorner users, we thought we would launch a limited time, promotional summer campaign to further encourage our riders to choose CabCorner when looking for transportation either to or from [...]

For CabCorner, the addition of SkyLine Credit Ride, is one of those partnerships which allows us to serve our growing community in more unique and innovative ways. SkyLine is a luxury car service provider, who will deliver professional, convenient and quite honestly, high brow transportation for CabCorner users. We suggest that CabCorner users give this new service [...]

If the financial crisis has taught us anything, or the oil spill in the Gulf, which served to highlight the results we should expect from top down risk assessments, as tallied by the gentlemen in charge, we should expect similar results in the future. Or, we can simply set up our own bottom up approach, and in [...]