Lime adds the Jump e-bikes Uber didn’t scrap to its app
Lime is adding Jump e-bikes to its app for the first time since the the company acquired the former Uber division in May, the company tells The Verge. The Jump e-bikes will be exclusively available in the Lime app while the company irons out any software kinks, at which point Jump e-bikes will continue to appear inside Uber's app as well.
Uber handed the money-losing Jump bike and scooter sharing service to Lime in May as part of a $170 million investment, which Google's parent company Alphabet was involved in as well. But Uber quickly caused a stir as, weeks later, the company started scrapping tens of thousands of the bright red e-bikes around the United States because it apparently couldn't find a way to donate them. An Uber...