New York City taxis to be added to Uber app [View all]

New Yorkers will soon be able to request an iconic yellow cab on the Uber app through a deal made public Thursday.

The agreement, first reported by The Wall Street Journal, will go into effect later this spring.

New York City's licensed technology providers, Curb Mobility and Creative Mobile Technologies, will integrate their existing software for hailing cabs into Uber, opening up access to a much larger user base.

"This is a real win for drivers - no longer do they have to worry about finding a fare during off peak times or getting a street hail back to Manhattan when in the outerboroughs," Uber's director of business development, Guy Peterson, said in a statement. "And this is a real win for riders who will now have access to thousands of yellow taxis in the Uber app."

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