In April, a group of Harvard Business School students created an app called Urbanhail that allowed users to see side-by-side real-time pricing — including surge rates — for different ride-sharing apps including Uber. The app received a tremendous response from users. Shortly after that, the group received emails from several Uber representatives, asking them to remove Uber’s data from the app citing terms and policies. “Uber’s developer terms explicitly forbid using its data in any manner that is competitive to Uber,” said Chris Messina, Lead at Uber Developer Experience. This has resulted in Urbanhail removing Uber’s data from price-comparison-list. Urbanhail’s Amber James didn’t find Uber’s stance on the matter. He said: They are absolutely a champion of competition when it’s them against taxi companies or them against regulators. However, in its own ride-hailing niche of the transportation market, Uber’s stance is ironically absolutely anti-competitive.

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