UberPOP suspended from today as innovators praise its disruptive power

Taxi services disintermediated by the cloud, they say

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Cloud Week in Paris heaped praise on car-share provider Uber, despite the company backing down in its standoff with local taxi drivers.

UPDATED Car-share app provider and serial disrupter Uber was praised for its innovation by speakers at Cloud Week 2015 in Paris. Constellation Research president Ray Wang and Chiseki Sagawa, dir...

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