This reports the Financieele Dagblad (FD) Thursday. The company has taken over this five app developers and designers of five Moop.me that include the Reader app built for NRC Handelsblad. There is no question of a takeover.
Moop.me been working since 2009 with Uber and also helped the Spotify integration of the app. Amsterdam will mainly be working on the mobile app. Moop.me founder Jelle Prince will lead the Amsterdam design department. The American Conrad Whelan is responsible for technical development.
“It is not a cost, we would have gone to India,” said Uber CEO Thuan Pham against the newspaper. However, the move to Europe will ensure that the taxi app less to have to compete programming talent with other major tech companies in Silicon Valley.
The team should end next year consist of around forty people. “We are growing at such a pace that we succeed in attracting talent.”
Rotterdam and The Hague
Uber also announced that it is expanding its taxi service UberPop to Rotterdam The Hague. UberPop had previously been available in Amsterdam.
The main objective is to attract customers among train passengers: travelers using UberPop order from a train station in Amsterdam, traveling Rotterdam or The Hague get two Uber rides 10 euro discount
. Fines
Uber is controversial in Europe. In several European cities, taxi drivers took to the streets to protest the app, which is accused of unfair competition. In the Netherlands explained the Environment and Transport Inspectorate four Uberpop drivers fines of 1,500 euros, for driving without a license.
In addition, Uber recently also came to lie again under fire after CEO Emil Michael had suggested that the business surveys on the private lives of journalists leads them to the mouth. Also last year, a candidate given access to the driving data of all its customers
Uber:. The rise of the popular but controversial taxi app
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