Australia Fines Uber 14 Mln For Misleading On Fares And...
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She's appearing on E4's Celebs Go Dating - and yet Tinder Swindler victim Cecilie Fjellhoy (left) has insisted she doesn't feel like a celebrity and would like to show viewers 'a different side to me'. Pictured, the cast of this year's Celebs Go Dating
Earlier on Tuesday, an earthquake measuring 4.7 on the Richter scale shook the island of Evia, in central Greece, damaging old buildings in the area and forcing authorities to shut down schools protectively.
Smaller scale tremors followed.
ATHENS, Nov 29 (Reuters) - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.0 shook central Greece on Tuesday and was felt as far as Athens, according to witnesses, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or serious damage.
ride-sharing app broke consumer law by misleading customers with warnings they would be charged for cancelling some rides from 2017 to 2021 and by using an inaccurate software algorithm to estimate fares for a taxi service it offered until August 2020, the Federal Court ruled.
ACCC Chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb said in a statement that the fine "clearly signals to businesses that misleading consumers about the cost of a product or service is a serious matter which can attract substantial penalties".
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), which brought the case against Uber, and the tech firm had already agreed on a fine of A$26 million, but O'Bryan told the court the evidence provided by both sides was "grossly inadequate", leaving him to speculate on the harm to consumers.
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We parents, meanwhile, are taking the window this unannounced babysitting shift has afforded us to soak in the view, which is stupendous - an almost-360-degree panorama of Athens, guided tour greece including the famed Acropolis, which lies a couple of miles away.
SYDNEY, Dec 7 (Reuters) - An Australian court fined Uber Technologies Inc A$21 million ($14 million) on Wednesday for threatening cancellation fees it never charged and overstating fare estimates on some rides.
Throw in a circular bar, a couple of hot tubs and the option to order light bites, and the rooftop can stake a claim - alongside the price - to being one of the major lures of this hip 220-room property, the fourth hotel by Tel Aviv-born hospitality group Brown Hotels to open in the Greek capital.
We vow to rise early and reach the ancient site before the midday sun and the crowds and fail miserably, instead hoping on a subway train at around 11.30am and ascending the slopes how to get around in greece the pillared Parthenon and the other glorious monuments and sanctuaries in the former city - built in the 5th century BC - amid heaving crowds and in blowtorch heat.
The London-based Norwegian tech designer, who starred on the Netflix documentary Tinder Swindler, where she claimed she was conned out of £200,000 by Simon Leviev, also confirmed she's back on the dating app.
In this way, he persuaded his victims to give him the cash he said he needed. They used high-interest loans and platinum credit cards to raise the money before handing it over to him in the belief it was the only way to ensure his enemies would not find him.
A pouter's paradise, but ironically given the hotel's name, I find it a bit dark and how to get to greece dingy - the only natural light comes from a small window in one corner (and taxi prices in greece the view is of a crumbling building next door) and creating a relaxing glow artificially is tricky.
Cecilie, 34, was one of Simon's targets who opened up about her experience on the Netflix docu-series which followed a bid to track down the con artist - real name Shimon Hayut - who claimed to be the son of a diamond merchant.
Tinder Swindler Hayut operated under several aliases, including Simon Leviev, chief executive of LLD Diamonds and the son of Israeli-Russian billionaire Lev Leviev, a man Forbes once called the 'King of Diamonds'.
The judge had made clear that the lower penalty "should not be understood as any reduction in the court's resolve to impose penalties appropriate to ... deterring contraventions of the Australian Consumer Law", Cass-Gottlieb added.
Judge Michael Hugh O'Bryan said in a written ruling that by supplying inaccurate information on its smartphone app, Uber "would be expected to lead a proportion of consumers to alter their decision and not proceed with the cancellation and perhaps deter future cancellations", while distorting demand greece taxi rates for its service.
We opt for cooked-to-order pancakes with chocolate sauce, watermelon, Volos greece taxi prices good coffee from a high-end Douwe Egberts machine and croissants, before taking advantage of the hotel's handy location in Omonia Square, which has a metro station just three stops from Akropoli - the station for the Acropolis.
