Lyft pulls an Uber and acquires Motivate, a bike-sharing company

Lyft says its new bike-share program will revolutionize urban transportation. The only problem? Uber kind of beat them to that particular revolution.

In a Monday blog post, Lyft announced it had reached an agreement to acquire Motivate, a bike-sharing company that operates the Citi Bike program in New York and Ford GoBike in San Francisco. 

“We’re excited to invest in bike-share to continue building the world’s best transportation for the future of our cities,” Lyft tweeted.

As part of the deal, Lyft will now own Motivate’s technology, including its apps, bike-tracking services, customer support, and bicycle maintenance systems. When Motivate’s bicycles will become available on the app to Lyft customers was not immediately clear.  Read more…

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Source: Mashable | Lyft pulls an Uber and acquires Motivate, a bike-sharing company