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Uber expansion to bring 50,000 new jobs to Europe

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By John Glenday, Reporter

January 19, 2015 | 1 min read

Online taxi booking service Uber is to recruit 50,000 people from around Europe as it embarks on a continent-wide expansion.

Travis Kalanick, Uber’s chief executive, has designated 2015 as a year of growth for the firm which is now present in 250 cities worldwide as it seeks to put past regulatory travails behind it.

Speaking to the Digital-Life-Design conference in Munich Kalanick said: “Uber is committed to establishing new partnerships with Europe's cities to ensure innovation, harness powerful economic benefits and promote core city functions.”

Uber is seeking to dangle the carrot of an economic windfall in front of cities such as London and Paris to entice them to open up competition to the digital booking app, overturning a number of local court injunctions amidst concerns over the income of existing taxi firms.

Kalanick added: "Uber wants to partner closely with tax authorities to increase transportation providers' compliance and overall tax revenue for cities and countries across Europe.

“At the end of 2015, if we can make these partnerships happen, we create 50,000 new EU jobs.”

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