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 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 Google-Owned Waze Gets In The Ride-Hail Game, Launches New Carpooling App Google just fired a rather loud shot across the bow of both Uber and Lyft. With the release of Waze Rider, the Google-owned Waze has its eye on a significant portion of ride-hail
SF News Uber And Lyft Pull Out Of Austin (Perhaps Hoping Public Outcry Will Ensue) Having lost a significant ballot vote on Saturday in the city of Austin, ride-share companies Uber and Lyft both announced they were pulling out of the city completely, and as BuzzFeed reports, both
SF News Uber Wants To Drive You To, And Leave You In, Tijuana Uber wants to be your number one choice when it comes to drunkenly deciding to go to Tijuana. The ride-hail company just announced that for the first time, customers can hail a ride
SF News Expanding On Partnership, Lyft Drivers Can Now Rent GM Cars For Free (Sort Of) Lyft and GM have announced the next big phase of their partnership, unveiling Monday a plan to rent GM cars to Lyft drivers for the low cost of nothing — with a few stipulations
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
SF News Pretty Much Everyone Is Suing Uber At This Point Uber has a reputation as a company disinclined to shy away from conflict — a reputation that may be well deserved. The technology giant is currently facing approximately 50 different suits in federal court,
SF News How Uber Knows If Your Driver Is Speeding Or Playing With Their Phone "How's my driving?" Oh please, Uber already knows. The company doesn't need for you to call a number listed on an old-fashioned bumper sticker to tell them that one of their drivers is
SF News Judge Recommends $7M Fine, Suspension For Uber Over Skirting California Regulations In a ruling by an administrative law judge over claims by the California Public Utilities Commission that Uber had refused to provide necessary information to regulators, Uber is being fined $7.3 million
SF News Uber CEO Scrambles, Tweets Rapid Response To Colleague's Troubling Comments About Journalists Facing another PR nightmare via some troubling off-hand remarks made by Uber executive Emil Michael, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick took to Twitter this morning to issue a 11 14-part statement. 14 parts of
SF News Sidecar Just Won The Right To Operate At SFO In what the company is calling a "milestone agreement," Sidecar just became the first ride-share company to get a permit to operate at San Francisco International Airport. The service is expected to be
SF News Uber Valued at $18.2 Billion, Now One Of The Biggest Companies In Bay Area With a new valuation on Friday that came with a $1.2 billion influx of cash, Uber is now second only to Facebook in terms of the pre-IPO investment sum that it has
SF News UberX Driver With Priors Facing Battery Charges A complaint that began on Twitter, in which an UberX customer claims he was verbally and physically assaulted by a driver in November, has now been escalated to the District Attorney's office. George
SF News DeSoto Cab Head Says S.F. Cab Industry Could Collapse In 18 Months At the hands of Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar, yellow (and other color) taxis could be kaput in San Francisco in a year and a half, at least according to the president of one
SF News Ridesharing Companies Need Mayor Lee's Help Getting To The Airport San Francisco mayor and sharing economy advocate Ed Lee has found himself stuck in an awkward showdown between the regulators at San Francisco International Airport and rideshare companies like Lyft, Uber or Sidecar.
SF News Uber Defends Their Non-Involvement In Death Of Six-Year-Old Sofia Liu Last week, Uber filed its defense in the wrongful death lawsuit of six-year-old Sofia Liu, who was struck and killed on New Year's Eve by driver Syed Muzzafar while he was allegedly searching
SF News Lyft To Start Offering 'Luxury' Rides In White Ford Explorers This week Lyft is set to start testing a new, upscale SUV service in San Francisco in a clear bid to compete with Uber's more luxurious chauffeuring options. The first half dozen SUV
SF News Have AirBnB, Lyft, Etc. Made Us More Trusting? Once upon a time, everyone thought that online dating was only going to lead to more serial killers. But now we know better: There aren't any more serial killers than there were before,
SF News UberX Rides Get $1 More Expensive Just last night I noticed that UberX wanted to charge me a new $1 "Safe Rides Fee" on top of the usual fare. I clicked OK, because I needed to get home, and
SF News Seattle Votes To Curb Number Of Ride-Share Drivers Following in the footsteps of places like Paris, where taxi unions have a stronger foothold, the Seattle City Council voted last night to cap the number of Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar drivers in
SF News Lyft Expands To The East Bay, Sheds That 'Donation' Business Good news for Oaklanders: Lyft is expanding your way, all the way from Oakland down to Castro Valley. And good news for Lyft: They don't have to pretend they're taking "donations" in California
SF News California Becomes First State To Regulate Lyft, SideCar And Uber Today marks a big win for car-sharing companies in California, including Lyft, Sidecar and Uber: state regulators voted unanimously to create rules for companies that use smartphones in lieu of a hail sign