BARCELONA, SPAIN – JULY 01: In this photo illustration, the app ‘Uber’ is launched in a smart phone on July 1, 2014 in Barcelona, Spain. Taxi drivers in main cities strike over unlicensed car-halling services. Drivers say that is a lack of regulation behind the new app. (Photo Illustration by David Ramos/Getty Images)
Credit: David Ramos
When it’s not using the awkwardly named SLOG initiative to aggressively recruit drivers from Lyft, Uber is expanding into new cities. Today it announced it has drivers in 205 cities around the globe.
The taxi-driver-with-an-app service is now available in 24 new cities including Akron, Ohio; Tallahassee, Florida; Wichita, Kansas and Wellington, New Zealand. Uber claims that in the US it now covers 55 percent of the population.
➤ 205/55/24 [Uber]
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