SF News SFO Uses Discount To Get Uber and Lyft Users To Meet Their Cars In the Domestic Garage Rideshare companies Uber and Lyft made a combined 10 million pickups and drop-offs at SFO in 2018, and now the airport is trying to manage the chaos.
SF News Far Right Commentator Banned From Uber And Lyft After Islamophobic Tweets Following a series of tweets in which she complained about Muslim drivers on Uber and Lyft, far-right commentator Laura Loomer has been banned from both of the ride-share services. According to CNet, this
SF News State Regulators Let Uber And Lyft Off The Hook On Fingerprinting Drivers Though Uber and Lyft already require annual background checks, state regulators have decided that they don't need to perform full-on biometric checks (including fingerprint checks) like taxi companies do. According to the Chronicle,
Arts & Entertainment Lyft Releases New Ads With Jordan Peele And Tilda Swinton In Space Lyft's making a grab for your attention with some pretty weird advertisements, the latest of which features Tilda Swinton acting as driver to Jordan Peele's passenger — in space. The ads, shared by Adweek,
SF News Travis Kalanick Moves To Undercut New Uber CEO, Appoints Two New Board Members By Surprise The Uber drama continues after a late Friday "surprise" by former CEO and current board member Travis Kalanick that is being characterized by sources as a blatant move to undercut new CEO Dara
SF News Bollocks To Uber, Which Is Now Banned In London A series of cock-ups has rideshare Uber arse-deep in trouble on the other side of the pond. In the wake of a Guardian report on sexual assaults committed by Uber drivers, the regulatory
SF News Lyft To Offer Free Rides In Self-Driving Cars Later This Year In SF The supposedly kinder, gentler, and self-described “woke” rideshare service Lyft has been feasting on the entrails of scandal-ravaged competitor Uber as of late. But a new self-driving car announcement from Lyft today signifies
SF News Kalanick Reportedly Cries As He Passes Torch To New Uber CEO At an all-hands meeting at Uber HQ in San Francisco this morning, former CEO Travis Kalanick was reportedly crying as new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi (pronounced cause-row-SHA-hee) was introduced to the company. Uber's board
SF News Uber Board Names New CEO, Expedia Chief Dara Khosrowshahi Uber's board made a somewhat surprising decision Sunday to appoint Expedia chief Dara Khosrowshahi to the open CEO role at the company, settling two months of unrest at the company and setting aside
SF News Ongoing Uber Drama: Travis' Texts, Big Name Departures, And Lyft Is Doing Awesome The endless drama unfolding over at Uber might as well be programmed by Bravo TV. Here's the latest: In the lawsuit filed against Uber by Waymo, we get a look at a bunch
SF News Key Uber Investor Sues Travis Kalanick To Get Him Off The Company's Board Fasten your seatbelts, Uber watchers. The company's ride is about to get a good bit rougher. Benchmark Capital, an early investor in Uber which maintains a seat on Uber's board of directors, is
SF News Study: Uber Drivers Game The System To Force Surge Pricing Just when you thought we might get through the week without another irritating tidbit about Uber, we have news of a study of Uber drivers in New York and London that suggests there
SF News Travis Kalanick May Be Angling For A Shareholder Battle To Return As Uber CEO It sounds like ousted Uber CEO Travis Kalanick was not speaking lightly when, as we heard last week, he was talking about "Steve Jobs-ing it" and returning to head the company just two
SF News Uber's CEO Short List Is Now Down To Three White Guys Despite appearing to intend to hire a female chief executive as a means of reshaping Uber's corporate image as a fratty boys' club, it looks like Uber is going to end up with
SF News Uber To Launch Credit Card, Likely With Rewards, Later This Year Perhaps in a bid at strengthening customer loyalty, Uber is going to be launching its own co-branded credit card later this year in partnership with Barclays. Barclays made the announcement via the Associated
SF News Uber Suspends Driver For Engaging In Sex While A Backseat Passenger Was On A Trip We have a fresh story of an Uber driver behaving badly, and this time it didn't have to do with victimizing a passenger but rather making a passenger feel really, really uncomfortable while
SF News Lyft Gets In On Self-Driving Car Game With 'Level Five' & New Workforce In Palo Alto Lyft is nipping at the heels of main competitor Uber in joining the race to bring autonomous vehicles onto the road, but they're doing so with a slightly different and they say more
SF News You'll Now Be Charged For Making An Uber Driver Wait Two Minutes, And Tipping Goes Live In NY, SF & LA The promised addition of an in-app tipping option for Uber rolls out today in a few dozen American and Canadian cities, and will be live nationwide by the end of July. Also today,
SF News [Update] Uber Maybe Knew Self-Driving Exec Had Waymo's Stolen Files The latest court filing by Uber in the self-driving technology case brought by Waymo has them thoroughly throwing former self-driving vehicle division head Anthony Levandowski under the bus. The filing suggests that Uber,
SF News Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Resigns Under Pressure From Key Investors After some Tuesday night drama in Silicon Valley involving Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and several key investor in the embattled ride-hailing company all worthy of Silicon Valley the HBO show Kalanick has resigned
SF News Uber Finally Adds Tips For Drivers Signaling that possibly only one man has been standing in the way of Uber drivers being able to receive tips from passengers as they can with ride-hailing rival Lyft, the company announced Tuesday
SF News Travis Kalanick Confirms Leave From Uber; Company Told To Curb Employees' Alcohol & Drug Use Confirming what has been credible rumor since Sunday, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick announced Tuesday that he would be taking an indefinite leave of absence from the company he founded to "work on Travis
SF News Confirmed: Longtime Kalanick Confidant Emil Michael Is Out At Uber Uber SVP Emil Michael leaves company after board unanimously approves Holder Report recommendations https://t.co/WRY0VaDqiX pic.twitter.com/l5biYgJivO— Forbes (@Forbes) June 12, 2017 Uber's second in command, Emil Michael, the
SF News Uber Board Said To Be Considering Leave Of Absence For Kalanick Uber's board of directors is meeting Sunday in Los Angeles to discuss the possible firings or forced resignations of some of its high-level executives in the wake of the results of a months-long
SF News Uber Exec Fired Over His Handling Of Rape Victim's Case In India Following Tuesday's bloodletting at Uber in the wake of a company-wide probe into hundreds of claims of sexual harassment in which at least 20 employees were terminated Recode has learned that a high-level
