HughPickens.com [hughpickens.com] writes:
Johana Bhuiyan has an interesting article at Buzzfeed about how the
Las Vegas taxi industry used every political maneuver in its arsenal to keep Uber and Lyft off the strip [buzzfeed.com]. Vegas is one of the most lucrative transportation markets in the country, with some 41.1 million visitors passing through it annually and
the city’s taxi industry raking in a whopping $290 million this year to date [nv.gov]. What made Vegas unique — what made it Uber’s biggest challenge yet — was the extent to which local governments were willing to protect the incumbents. According to Bhuiyan in Las Vegas, Uber and its pugnacious CEO Travis Kalanick really did run into the corrupt taxi cartel bogeymen that they had long claimed to be saving us from and this cartel would prove to be their most formidable opponent. But when push came to shove and the fight turned ugly, the world’s fastest-growing company
ran right over its entrenched opposition [ksl.com].
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