Everyone these days knows about Uber and how effective it is, but over the past few months their popularity has been suffering. The successful transportation app only has a slim lead over its main competitor, Lyft, which as of late has been making great strides. Lyft announced on Thursday that the company would be expanding its services to 50 more cities around the US to bring the count close to 300 cities. While the gap between Uber and Lyft is still there, the tides have been turning for some time now. Thousands and thousands of people have been deleting Uber and boycotting the app in midst of some serious controversy surrounding what seems to be its CEO’s support of Donald Trump and the Muslim ban. On top of that, former female engineers have come out saying that they were sexually harassed in the workplace. With all of these problems stacking up, #DeleteUber has become a top trend in the social media charts and has sent Lyft to the top of the app list. Uber CEO, Travis Kalanick has taken measures to repair the damage that was done like create a $3 million legal defense fund to aid Uber drivers with immigration and ...
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