{"id":27138,"date":"2014-10-17T09:01:27","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T07:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=27138"},"modified":"2019-02-25T11:23:16","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T10:23:16","slug":"ruling-uberpop-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2014\/10\/ruling-uberpop-case\/","title":{"rendered":"In Paris, Uber fined \u20ac100K as advertising for UberPop declared illegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27154 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/assets\/1399414312_uberpop-600x335.jpg\" alt=\"1399414312_uberpop-600x335\" width=\"600\" height=\"335\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A court decision ruled this week that advertising UberPop &#8211;\u00a0Uber&#8217;s\u00a0low cost peer to peer transport solution in Europe &#8211; fining the company \u20ac100,000. The case, which is independent of Uber&#8217;s\u00a0ongoing negotiations with Taxi authorities, was brought forth by the anti-competition &amp; fraud commission of the French Ministry of Economy, and Uber currently plans to appeal\u00a0the decision.<\/p>\n<p>Europe&#8217;s reaction to Uber can best be described as a systematic, piece-by-piece dismantling of the Uber empire.\u00a0Barcelona drivers (&amp; passengers) are being pulled over for illegal operation, Germany has taken wide action against Uber, as has\u00a0Brussels, Europe&#8217;s Capital, and the ongoing battle in France has put\u00a0Uber on the defensive.<\/p>\n<p>France remains one of Uber&#8217;s largest and most profitable markets, according to sources close to Uber &#8211;\u00a0Uber first launched in Paris in December of 2011 at LeWeb, where CEO &amp; Founder Travais Kalanick said he was first inspired by his inability to find a Taxi during an unexpected snowstorm at LeWeb in 2009, which left attendees stranded for hours.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A court decision ruled this week that advertising UberPop &#8211;\u00a0Uber&#8217;s\u00a0low cost peer to peer transport solution in Europe &#8211; fining the company \u20ac100,000. The case, which is independent of Uber&#8217;s\u00a0ongoing negotiations with Taxi authorities, was brought forth by the anti-competition &amp; fraud commission of the French Ministry of Economy, and Uber currently plans to appeal\u00a0the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":27154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-finance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}