A Kayak for ride sharing: Red Ride aggregates the closest, cheapest rides near you

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The ride sharing space is changing the way people zoom around town. Taxis are no longer your only option with companies like Lyft, SideCar and Car2Go now offering their services. But when you’re in need of a ride, it can be a time-consuming and irritating process shuffling through all the different apps on your phone to find the… Read More…

Test riding Sidecar and Lyft, the Coke and Pepsi of ride sharing

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Seattleites don’t just have an option of catching a cheap ride from a stranger with a smartphone app. We have a choice. Lyft launched its ride sharing service in Seattle last week, joining direct competitor Sidecar in a battle for the city’s thrifty, mobile, smartphone-wielding crowd. With most apps I use, one service is so… Read More…

App of the Week: SideCar offers ‘spontaneous carpools’

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This week’s App of the Week is SideCar, the community ridesharing service that connects people who need rides with drivers who have extra space in their cars. It works via apps on Android and iPhone/iPad. SideCar recently expanded to Seattle from its original market of San Francisco. Andru Edwards of GearLive.com, our guest on this… Read More…

SideCar expands community-based ride-sharing platform to Seattle, offers $10 credit

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There’s a new taxi-service in town, but the cars aren’t yellow and the drivers could very well be your next door neighbor. Introducing SideCar, a community-based ride-share marketplace that connects drivers with extra space in their cars to passengers needing to get somewhere. Founded in San Francisco this past June, SideCar picked Seattle as its first… Read More…

Sidecar: A mobile app that’s trying to reinvent the phone call

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RealNetworks founder Rob Glaser, who helped usher in the era of online video and audio, now wants to reinvent the phone call as we know it. “Basically, if you think about the phone call, it has been the same thing for 50 years,” said Glaser, noting that the first preview of the touch-tone phone was… Read More…