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Episode: Failed Australian rideshare app accuses Uber of illegally operating service to gain unfair advantage
Description: A failed Australian taxi industry disruptor told a court that Uber began illegally operating its ride-sharing service in Australia a decade ago to gain an unfair advantage over competitors.
Taxi Apps, an Australian startup that developed taxi-hailing app GoCatch, lodged a 196-page statement of claim in the Victoria state Supreme Court in which it alleges Uber knowingly launched UberX illegally in Australia in 2014. The San Francisco-based rideshare giant was also accused of serious misconduct including corporate espionage and hacking of competitors’ systems.
The trial is scheduled to last for 10 weeks and comes two weeks after Uber agreed to pay 272 million Au...