An illustration picture shows the logo of car-sharing service app Uber on a smartphone next to the picture of an official German taxi sign in Frankfurt, September 15, 2014.
/Kai Pfaffenbach
U.S.-based Uber Technologies Inc has decided to suspend its UberPOP ride-hailing application in France, where authorities have denounced it as an illegal taxi service, its local manager told Le Monde daily."We have decided to suspend UberPOP in France from 2000 (1800 GMT) this Friday evening, primarily to assure the safety of Uber drivers," it quoted Thibaud Simphal, head of Uber France, as saying after sometimes violent encounters with licensed taxi drivers who argue the app is unfair competition. (Reporting by
Mark John; editing by Dominique Vidalon)
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