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Abu Dhabi: Dubai-based ride-hailing company Careem, which is owned by Uber, has vacancies for over 200 roles in the company. According to a LinkedIn post, Careem wrote that it was looking to fill jobs that spanned across the ride-hailing firm. “From engineers to data analysts, operations managers to platform designers, and everything in between.” Established in … Get the latest updates in Hyderabad City News , Technology , Entertainment , Sports , Politics and Top Stories on WhatsApp & Telegram by subscribing to our channels. You can also download our app for Android and iOS .

Futures Tread Water Amid Peripheral Bond Rout As Key CPI Print Looms U.S. index futures swung around in a volatile, illiquid overnight session, and at last check were flat despite traders'' concerns about growing fireworks in the European bond market where Italian and Greek bond plunged amid fears of ECB rate hikes as soon as October, while waiting for Thursday''s key CPI data and further corporate earnings. S&P 500 futures were up 2 points or 0.05%, Nasdaq futures were up 26 points or 0.18% and Dow futures were up fractionally as markets now expect more than five quarter-point Federal Reserve interest-rate hikes in 2022 to keep inflation on check following a strong U.S. jobs report. Treasury yields and the dollar were stable, while the euro snapped a six-day strengthening run. WTI crude fell after last week''s rally. Chinese shares climbed on their return from a weeklong holiday. Bitcoin extended its recovery surge. In the premarket, Peloton was in focus, soaring 27% on reports it''s evaluating interest from potential suitors including Amazon and Nike.

Uber , an American mobility service provider, has gone beyond the normal ride-sharing business, to meet the evolving needs of riders and small businesses by launching the Uber Connect in Lagos. The service named ‘Uber Connect’ leverages the agility of Uber’s platform to efficiently send parcels and goods from one consumer or small business to another in Lagos. Toke Akinwumi, Country manager for Uber Nigeria, noted that the platform also provides new revenue streams and earning opportunities for drivers. “What we have learnt over the past two years ,is that the benefits of uber’s technology platform extend beyond the actual ride sharing abilities of Uber, and with the e-commerce and last mile delivery sector expecting to grow by about 11 percent by 2025 ( statista), It is more important to leverage our technology,” Akinwumi said. According to her, the launch of the platform is an example of leveraging the technology to achieve the proposed growth by 2025. Read also: Power sector roadmap needs recalibration- MOMAS boss Meanwhile, while speaking about the progress of the company in 2021, the country manager explained that the rollout of covid-19 vaccines and relaxing of some restrictions over the course of the year meant that the country could recover slowly allowed the company to expand into new cities in Nigeria which includes port Harcourt and Ibadan, making the Uber App available in 5 cities across the country. “We also witnessed international travel pick up again as we saw an uptake in travel with trips to and from Abuja airport increasing by 6.48 percent and in Benin City, we saw an increase of 67.69 requests from the airport during September and October.

The Rickshaw Panchayat for long has demanded a ban against app-based cab services like Ola and Uber which had hit the income of auto drivers.

Investors this week are set to monitor another set of inflation data alongside a packed docket of quarterly earnings results, with names from Disney to Uber, Lyft and Peloton all set to post their reports.

Ride-hailing company Uber is urging the federal government to make greater electric vehicle (EV) investments in poorer and inner-city neighborhoods, arguing such areas should be prioritized for newer infrastructure.Uber made the appeal in a comment

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Are Global Central Banks (Ex-China) Suddenly Panicking? The last few weeks or so have seen a chill wind run through the halls of global central planners'' offices. First (among the majors) it was the Bank of England who surprised investors with a rate-hike in mid-December (after promising they wouldn''t), then this morning ending QE and raising rates again (narrowly avoiding by a 5-4 vote a 50bps hike). Source: Bloomberg Then it was The Fed''s various group-thinkers doing an extremely rapid volte-face from forever-dovish to the hawkiest hawks in hawk-land, calling for a halt to QE, imminent and rapidly rising rate-hikes, and the start of QT. US STIRs are now pricing in 5 rate-hikes by year-end (and a 25% chance of a 50bps hike in March) Source: Bloomberg This morning saw Christine Lagarde change her stripes from uber dove to more fence-sitter (and some would say an actual hawkish bias was overheard with Bloomberg reporting that ECB policymakers "see policy change at the March meeting if inflation doesn''t ease." Rate-hike expectations are spiking in European bond markets...

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Amazon.com Inc. disclosed overnight that it boosted its stake in electric-vehicle maker Rivian Automotive Inc. to more than 18% and initiated a stake in self-driving software company Aurora Innovation Inc. of more than 5%. Amazon said late Wednesday it now owns 162,086,884 shares of Rivian, or 18.1% of the shares outstanding, which at current prices would be valued at about $9.75 billion at current stock prices. That would be enough to make the ecommerce giant Rivian''s largest shareholder, according to FactSet; Ford Motor Co. is the fifth largest with a 10.7% stake. Amazon had owned 158,363,834 Rivian shares as of Dec. 31, according to a 13F filing also filed late Thursday. Amazon also said it now owned 35,239,761, or 5.2%, of Aurora Innovation shares, which at current prices would be valued at about $167.0 million. That would make Amazon the third-largest shareholder, according to FactSet data, behind Uber Technologies Inc. at 46.8% and Toyota Motor Corp. at 7.4%. Rivian shares shed 6.5% in morning trading Thursday and Aurora''s stock lost 3.7%, while Amazon shares fell 6.8% and the S&P 500 gave up 1.4%.

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National bank of Kuwait (NBK) Capital Partners Mezzanine Fund II has announced that it closed a $10 million financing facility with Ubers exclusive vehicle supply partner in Africa, the mobility fintech Moove. The innovative asset-backed venture debt marks the sixth investment from the Fund advised by NBK Capital Partners. The growth facility from the Fund will support Mooves expansion in West Africa initially. Moove is the first investment in Africa by NBK Capital Partners funds, underscoring the opportunity for a platform like Moove to address the continents vehicle financing gap. The company is driven by strong founders who possess a unique, long-term vision for success, one built on the empowerment of individuals from every socioeconomic class across the region but also a genuine commitment to social and environmental sustainability, Ladi Delano, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Moove said. Founded in 2019 by Ladi Delano and Jide Odunsi, Moove is an African mobility fintech that is democratizing vehicle ownership by providing revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs across Africa.