11Dec/13Off
Get ready for Uber to hit overdrive with delivery biz
[Phil Lelyveld comment: Given their previously announced partnership with Google on self-driving cars, Uber will be the new incumbent to either partner with or directly compete against Amazon.]
Uber's network of cars today transports people with a taxi-like service, but in the future, it'll carry more than that, Chief Executive Travis Kalanick said Tuesday.
"We need to stamp out an urban logistics fabric in every city in the world, then it's figuring out other things we can do with that fabric," he said at the LeWeb show here. "It's going to be interesting for us in 2014."
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