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The new app will allow you to bypass surge pricing and Uber’s $2 cab-hailing fee.

One of New York’s largest providers of taxi cab tech is teaming with a startup to take on Uber. Queens-based Creative Mobile Technologies, which provides the ubiquitous credit card readers and Taxi TV monitors to half of New York’s cabs, has inked a partnership with Arro to hail yellow and green cabs via smartphone. Arro’s app will not charge the $2 fee that Uber currently tacks on when customers hail a taxi—and will be devoid of Uber’s surge pricing.

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Expect new iPhones from Apple on September 9, but no miniature iPhone 6c.

Apple’s upcoming iPhone event is taking place on September 9, and the press blitz is coming fast. While Apple itself has kept mum about what its latest set of announcements will focus on, there are already a few hints.

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“Improving quality isn’t anti-competitive,” Google wrote in a blog post on Thursday.

Google published a blog post on Thursday responding to the European Commission’s claims that some of its practices are anti-competitive. The commission, which acts as the executive body of the European Union, filed formal antitrust charges against Google in April 2015, alleging that its search results unfairly ranked its own shopping service over competitors.

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The company is testing a new feature that creates perpetual routes in San Francisco.

Uber began testing a new feature this week in San Francisco that works like a bus route.

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Writer-director Peter Bogdanovich wrote She’s Funny That Way for John Ritter a decade ago. Here’s how it was reborn.

Peter Bogdanovich’s last theatrical feature was The Cat’s Meow, which came out in 2001, but he’s quick to tell you that he hasn’t been on any kind of hiatus—self-imposed or otherwise—these past 14 years.

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