SF News Uber Now Shows You Your Rider Rating More Prominently Uber riders with good luck, decent hygiene, and few interpersonal deficiencies can afford to forget that they're not just rating drivers: Their drivers are rating them, too. But with Uber's latest app update
SF News Uber Releases Its Financials For The First Time, Finance Prof Calls It 'Cash-Burning Machine' Uber has released a very controlled peek at its financial situation to Bloomberg, a first for the ride-hailing giant that's exercised its right as a private company to tell the public as little
SF News How Uber Games Its Drivers To Get Them To Drive More Uber makes no secret of its ambitions to replace human drivers ASAP, testing autonomous cars in a highly public manner. But for the moment, and even for the next decade, the ride-hailing company
SF News Ugh: Lyft CEO Declares 'We're Woke' As customers give Uber hell over a steady stream of recent scandals, its distant second in the American ride-hailing market, Lyft, has been the beneficiary of tremendous good will, ride-hail dollars, and app
SF News Uber Executive Exodus: Company President, Maps Leader, And More Bail Uber president of ride-sharing Joe Jones, the company's second in command who was poached from a position at Target just six months ago, is leaving the company in a huff. His departure, complete
SF News Uber Will Quit Greyballing And Has Self-Driving Permits And Is Very Good Now, Okay? Hope everyone is ready to download Uber again, because these folks are back on track! For starters, after the $70-billion valued ride-hailing company was called out by a report in the New York
SF News Uber Evaded Authorities In Multiple Cities With Secret, Potentially Illegal 'Greyball' System Well, well, well. Uber has really done it this time. Four current and former employees of the ride-hailing giant reveal to the New York Times that for years during the company's rapid expansion
SF News Video: Uber CEO Tells His Uber Driver To 'Take Responsibility' In Argument Over Rates Dashcam video surreptitiously recorded by Uber driver Fawzi Kamel shows company CEO Travis Kalanick getting a ride earlier this month about which he'll soon be forced to give a comment and apology, a
SF News Uber Did A Bad And Is Very Sorry, Okay? Since Sunday, when a widely circulated account from a former company engineer shed light on an alleged culture of harassment and HR failure within Uber, senior leadership at the ride-hailing giant, most notably
SF News With App Update, Uber Would Like To Access Your Contacts, Calendar As soon as today, your Uber app might start asking for an update. That's not all it's asking for: Uber wants more information than ever before on your comings and goings, even requesting
SF News Peak 2016: Luxor Cabs Seeks Legacy Business Designation Thoroughly disrupted by contractor-based ride-hailing companies like Uber and Lyft, 1928- founded Luxor Cabs has filed with the Planning Department to receive benefits reserved for so-called legacy businesses. Socketsite snapped up the news,
SF News Uber Is Testing Pre-Paid, Flat-Rate Rides, And They're Already Sold Out In SF Maybe you, like I, received a notification from Uber regarding “Uber Plus,” a new subscription service that Forbes reports is intended to foster customer loyalty. Did you act fast? In San Francisco, Uber
SF News Federal Judge Rejects $100M Uber Settlement With CA, MA Drivers, Doubts Company Will Ever IPO A proposed $100 million settlement between Uber and its California and Massachusetts drivers, with $84 million to have been paid out initially and $16 million more to have been distributed if and when
SF News Shifting Into High Gear, Uber Will Begin Driverless Car Service In Pittsburgh Within Weeks “We are going commercial,” Uber CEO Travis Kalanick announced to Bloomberg Businessweek with regard to the company's decision to allow — conscript? — customers into using its driverless cars in Pittsburgh. “This can’t just
SF News Uber Caught Using Ex-CIA-Staffed Research Firm To Dig Up Dirt On Legal Opponent A few weeks after the attorney Andrew Schmidt filed a labor lawsuit against Uber and its CEO Travis Kalanick last December — one of so many legal battles that keep the ride-hailing company's legal
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 In Retro Move, Lyft Lets You Book Rides 24 Hours In Advance On-demand ride-hailing service Lyft just went old school with a new option to book your ride up to 24 hours ahead. It's a test run for now, says Mashable, but the vintage, taxi-style
SF News Uber Stymied In Australian State, Protests With 15,000 Printed Emails Delivered By Horse And Buggy After the Australian state of Queensland passed legislation to stamp out Uber last month with punishing fines to drivers using the app, the $50 billion valued company did what any imperious, overvalued child
SF News Uber Insists It Will Not Add Tipping Function To App In response to reactions like SFist's this week to the growing idea that Uber drivers want passengers to tip them in cash, Uber has just put up a new official statement on Medium
SF News If Uber Drivers Start Demanding Tips And Only Waiting Two Minutes At The Curb, I'm Done The entire value and convenience propositions of using Uber could soon be out the window as it's becoming increasingly obvious that drivers would like to be getting cash tips, and as Uber announces
SF News Uber Paying Off Drivers To The Tune Of $100M So They Can Keep Them As Contractors Welp, that big class-action lawsuit we've been talking about for over a year has been settled, along with a similar suit in Massachusetts, that we and a number of legal experts thought was
SF News State Senate Panel Falls One Vote Short On Bill To Ban Surge Pricing For Uber And Lyft A California Senate committee blocked a bill this week that would have stopped Uber and Lyft from employing the dynamic fare pricing known as "surge" pricing. The AP reports that the measure fell
SF News As Uber Settles With SF & LA For $25 Million, Lyft's Class Action Settlement Is Denied On-point SF ad vandalism (what was Lyft thinking?) pic.twitter.com/SabcKYmTwf— Chad Woodford (@cjam) March 31, 2016 In terms approved by the Superior Court of California, within 60 days, Uber Technologies will
SF News Uber Sends Private Investigator To Question Former Employee Suspected Of Leaking 'Rape' Searches The extraordinarily broad reach of Uber across the nation (and world) and their questionable process for screening and hiring drivers has a lot of people worried about what the next shoe to drop
SF News Uber Enacts Secret 800 Emergency Number for "Non-Emergencies" To ease your anxiety over the disturbing frequency of sexual assault complaints, driver theft of passenger property and a recent shooting spree by an Uber driver in Kalamazoo, Michigan, the revolutionary and somewhat
