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The app Aura for users will be ready to use by the end of January.

Student creates ride-sharing app for women to fight sexual harassment

Maria Salette Ontiveros, Contributor February 10, 2020

Josué Rodríguez, a 21-year-old computer system engineering student from the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juárez (UACJ), created a ride-sharing app called Aura, exclusively made for women. “The idea of Aura started by hearing a lot of delicate...

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Cab fare that's fair

Cab fare that’s fair

Julio Cesar Chavez, Staff Reporter September 8, 2015

With its founding in 2009, Uber has changed the transportation landscape in the United States and other countries around the world. El Paso’s City Council has recently voted to have the city manager write a new ordinance covering Uber or to update...

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David Hantman, of Airbnb, left, says that if the data show there is a problem, the government should have a role in regulating sharing platforms. Also on the panel were John Breyault, National Consumers League; Alex Howard, TechRepublic; and Adam Thierer, Mercatus Research Center at George Mason University.

Sharing services lack regulation, enough liability, critics say

Lorain Watters, Scripps Howard Foundation Wire Reporter December 12, 2014

WASHINGTON – “Sharing is caring,” a motto taught to school children, is now weaving its way through society, allowing consumers to share anything – from transportation to food – via their mobile devices. But when rape claims against Uber...

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