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Roger Lanctot
| May 13, 2020
Whenever I feel afraid, I hold my head erect
And whistle a happy tune, so no one will suspect I'm afraid
-- "Anna" - Rodgers & Hammerstein's "The King and I...
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Roger Lanctot
| May 12, 2020
Hertz has an earnings call this morning. Things don't look good and a bankruptcy filing is not out of the question. The current results are not awful, reflectin...
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Roger Lanctot
| May 11, 2020
Following Uber Technologies’ earnings report after the market closed Thursday there were a number of conflicting narratives. Some analysts saw weak s...
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Roger Lanctot
| May 05, 2020
Moovit has long been the darling of Israel's transportation-obsessed startup community. The company has frequently, and appropriately, been compared to Waze f...
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Roger Lanctot
| Apr 30, 2020
There have been multiple media reports that the aftermath of a COVID-19 infection or even its onset can rob a sufferer of the senses of taste and smell, but I h...
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Roger Lanctot
| Apr 28, 2020
Somehow, the entire mobility industry fresh and green and promising to transform transportation as we all know it, has ended up in the crosshairs of a global pa...
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Roger Lanctot
| Apr 26, 2020
German rental car and mobility powerhaus SIXT recently announced a groundbreaking feature of its mobile app for booking taxis and rental cars: the ability to bo...
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Roger Lanctot
| Apr 24, 2020
General Motors' announced shut down of the Maven car sharing service was hardly a surprise, especially coming in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. By the time...
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Roger Lanctot
| Apr 21, 2020
COVID-19 has made April 2020 an especially cruel month, but its cruelty has been magnified by the employment practices and policies of particular technology lea...
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Roger Lanctot
| Apr 10, 2020
Four mobility service operator CEOs, an industry expert, and a moderator from The Information conducted a fascinating discussion this week regarding the current...
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Roger Lanctot
| Apr 09, 2020
“We should take comfort that while we may have more still to endure, better days will return: we will be with our friends again; we will be with our famil...
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Roger Lanctot
| Apr 02, 2020
The negative impacts of the coronavirus, COVID-19, on the automotive industry continue to radiate out from the closure of factories and dealerships (for vehicle...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 31, 2020
It's a shame that the U.S. president and his administration have chosen to criticize and attack China for its poor management of the novel coronavirus crisis. I...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 30, 2020
The New York Times, and other media outlets, tell us this morning that "as many as 200,000 Instacart shoppers could walk off the job" today in a strike protes...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 26, 2020
A crisis on the pandemic scale of COVID-19 needs a solution of an equally epic scope. The thousands of workers that still actually must show up for work in an e...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 25, 2020
By now it is pretty clear that everywhere outside of China and South Korea human beings are doing a lousy job of "social distancing," locking down, and shelteri...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 24, 2020
Car companies, start-ups, and investors across the globe have embraced and spread the virus of autonomous vehicle technology. The infection got its start ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 20, 2020
As the world wrestles with the consequences of a novel coronavirus, COVID-19, running wild laying waste to health care systems, communities, and economies, it i...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 19, 2020
The hideous reality of the coronavirus has exposed the hideous realities of the mobility industry with sobering implications for all. At its core, mobility...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 13, 2020
Financial analysts were thrilled with Uber's latest earnings report in spite of ongoing loss-making activity and legal woes. Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi's enthus...
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