What's the Gig Deal? - Wall Street Journal

Uber and its competitors in the car-service-app business won a huge victory in New York last week when the city’s leftist mayor, Bill de Blasio, backed down from his plan to enact legislation severely curtailing the industry’s growth. On the one hand, he acknowledges in a brief New York Times blog post, Uber is a boon to consumers, who no longer need to brave the elements and compete among themselves for scarce taxicabs. Source: www.wsj.com