SF News Chinese Uber Rival Buys Uber China, Ending Expensive Fight Not one to readily admit defeat, bullish Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has come closer than ever in a blog post to the Uber Newsroom titled "Uber China Merges with Didi Chuxing." It's less
SF News Palo Alto Uber Driver Arrested Following Alleged Sexual Assault An Uber driver was arrested over the weekend following reports that he sexually assaulted a passenger. According to CBS 5, the driver picked up a female rider early Saturday morning in Palo Alto
SF News Uber's In-App Response To Gun Violence Is Weird And Tone Deaf Following on their kind and mildly helpful response in the wake of the mass shooting of LGBT people in Orlando they were giving free rides all the following weekend to and from various
SF News Uber Driver Accused Of Refusing To Drive Gay Couple During Pride A couple celebrating Pride were dismayed when they say their Uber driver refused to drive them after the two men exchanged a quick kiss. The men allege things got even worse, reports ABC7,
SF News Uber Will Stop (Telling You How Much It Is) Surge Pricing Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Surge pricing, on principle, is going nowhere, but the dreaded lightning bolt indicating exactly by what factor prices will be increased is (soon to
SF News Uber Settles Another Driver Suit To The Tune Of $7.5M Uber has settled yet another lawsuit, with the issue of driver background checks at the heart of the latest legal dispute. According to Reuters, in response to a case brought in San Francisco
SF News Uber Secures $3.5 Billion Cash Investment From Saudi Arabia Uber just secured its largest investment from a single investor — $3.5 billion dollars from Saudi Arabia to be specific. The ride-hail service announced today that Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund — an
SF News Uber Courts Parents With Trip Tracker To View Their Kids' Rides In Real-Time A day after announcing its Family Profiles feature, which allows users to add up to 10 people and pay for their rides, Uber made clear one key use for that feature with the
SF News Key Plaintiff Objects To $100M Uber Class Action Settlement As Drivers Criticize Lead Lawyer Recently SFist wrote of a $27 million proposed agreement for drivers to settle with Lyft, a deal to keep them contractors rather than employees in California. That settlement was brokered by the same
