'Let's get an Uber' has replaced 'Let's call a cab.' Uber has even become common in hip-hop lyrics.Behind the scenes, Uber continued its clever strategy of making its app available anywhere and everywherean expensive prospect that few other app companies bother withand so far it hasn't been dented by lawsuits that seek to force it to reclassify its drivers as employees rather than contractors.One of Uber's earliest competitors, Sidecar, just threw in the towel.

None of them rocked the world with a new product or category, but all of them quietly consolidated and are well positioned to dominate in 2016.UberThis was the year that the world's largest 'startup' became part of the standard vocabulary in the US, as Google did in the last decade. What was the iPhone of this year' The Apple Watch' Hoverboards' Please.Mostly, existing products and companies consolidated their gains.These five companies exemplified that trend. The iPhone.In 2015, there weren't a lot of great new tech products or categories. It's just there.Think about the Windows PC. Investors and technology enthusiasts focus on the newnew companies, products, and technologies.But the real runaway successes, the hundred-billion-dollar companies, come when a tech product has become such an integral part of everybody's lives that nobody thinks about it anymore. 'We spent millions before the Govt released their corpses' - Woman who lost her brother, his wife and children in Ojuelegba container accident, writes after burial - Linda Ikejiġ56,000 Nigerians Died Of Tuberculosis In 2020 ' Report - Information NigeriaĢ023 Election: I've No Godfather, Only Mentors ' Gbadebo - Information NigeriaĢ023 Election: INEC Blacklists 100 Ad Hoc Staff In Akwa Ibom - Information NigeriaĢ023 Elections: Police arrest 53-year-old woman with laminated INEC materials - Linda IkejiĦ-year-old girl sets herself ablaze while practicing cooking - Linda IkejiĦ0-year-old Kano Man Reportedly Marries 11-Year-Old Girl, Nigerians React (Video) - Tori Click to view all Entertainment headlines today

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