Uber Technologies Inc (UBER)

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Lyft’s hiding of the rider’s fare from drivers, which the company says began rolling out on September 12, came just a few weeks after a Jalopnik investigation found Uber and Lyft take a much higher portion of each fare than they publicly admit. Both companies denied those findings, but refused to provide any raw data to support their claims. Jalopnik used the information drivers could see about each fare, including the amount the rider paid, to conduct its study of 14,756 fares.

Two drivers who spoke to Jalopnik speculated Lyft removed this information as a result of the investigation’s revalations, but Lyft said “That is unequivocally false. This update was in the works for some time and is not in response to the take rate article.”