CityLab Daily: More Bad News for Uber

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Uber, ruled: Uber’s tough year just got a little worse. The European Court of Justice ruled today that, for all intents and purposes, Uber is a taxi company. That doesn’t quite settle what regulatory strings are attached, but it’s quite a call-out to the always odd notion that the company sees itself as just a technology company that enables peer-to-peer connections, rather than a transportation service. Long-term, this could have implications for Uber’s relationship with its drivers.