<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454864755643_9110"><br><span></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454864755643_9119"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454864755643_9130" class="annotatable"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454864755643_9176"><i id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454864755643_9175">.....For taxi driver Nessim Abdel Malak, 36, he
doesn’t see such apps as taking business directly away from him
currently but is fearful that their murky legal status could affect
competition.</i></b></div><b><i>
</i></b><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454864755643_9128" class="annotatable"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454864755643_9173"><i id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454864755643_9172">‘They (Uber drivers) should have to pay insurance and taxes just like us” he told Quartz. “I am totally against this idea”.</i></b></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454864755643_9126" dir="ltr"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454864755643_9154"><i id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454864755643_9153">
Abdel Malak estimated that he has to pay around
2000 Egyptian pounds ($255) for a professional taxi driver’s license and
mandatory union fees. “The Uber drivers can offer more competitive
rates compared to us because they have lower overheads” he lamented....</i></b></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454864755643_9146" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454864755643_9132" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454864755643_9287" dir="ltr">Views from far and wide in the North. <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454864755643_9181" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454864755643_9184" dir="ltr">By now, perhaps the Uber Executives are riding on the "negative waves" for their free PR - it is a marketing strategy too, an entry tactic too! <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454864755643_9342" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454864755643_9368" dir="ltr">Moving away from the taxi hue and cry, I believe Uber is a version of a human "car track". As an app, we now can track all your movements as you hail and use the service. Thus Uber at a global level becomes a repository of human movements within cities.This opens new lines of business to trade the data with interest groups such as development planners, governments and security agencies.<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454864755643_9149" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454864755643_9148" dir="ltr">Blessed week.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454864755643_9136" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454864755643_9144" dir="ltr">Regards/Wangari<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454864755643_9108"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454864755643_9101" class="signature">---<br><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454864755643_9100" style="font-weight:bold;font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;" size="2"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454864755643_9099" style="color:rgb(127, 0, 63);">Pray God Bless. 2013Wangari circa - </span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454864755643_9103" style="color:rgb(127, 0, 63);">"Being of the Light, We are Restored Through Faith in Mind, Body and Spirit; We Manifest The Kingdom of God on Earth".</span></font><br></div></div></body></html>