SF News Travis Kalanick Sent Uber Employees A Memo About Having Sex With Each Other, Twice The latest tidbit to trickle out from Uber's sexual harassment/culture-of-inappropriateness probe is an email, known internally as "the Miami letter," obtained by Recode, that CEO Travis Kalanick sent out to all Uber
SF News Uber Terminating More Than 20 People In Sexual Harassment Probe Uber's overall reputation has taken a lot of hits in 2017, not the least of which were allegations in February of widespread sexual harassment and an overall culture of sexism from a former
SF News Uber Lost 'Only' $708 Million Last Quarter, Top Finance Exec Resigns The Montgomery Burns of tech companies, Uber, revealed their 2017 first quarter earnings Wednesday, and lost $708 million says the San Francisco Business Times. But that’s “actually good by Uber standards” according
SF News Not Surprisingly, UberPool Has Been A Major Loss Leader Are you the "master" of your UberPool? Leaked internal documents obtained by Buzzfeed reveal some of UberPool's weird terminology, and the company's total hemorrhaging of money, passengers, and drivers. (We've known these prices
SF News Mother Of Travis Kalanick Killed In Boating Accident The parents of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick were in a boating accident Friday evening at Pine Flat Lake in Fresno County, injuring Kalanick's father, and tragically killing his mother. As NBC Bay Area
SF News Uber Under Criminal Investigation Over Shady 'Greyball' Scheme While the likelihood of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick doing the perp walk in cuffs still seems pretty remote, the latest scandalous development with the rideshare company we love to hate puts Uber squarely
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 Profile Of Uber CEO Obsessed With Winning, Even At Nintendo, Reveals He Deceived Apple Tech world talk on Twitter yesterday was devoted pretty much entirely to a profile of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick by New York Times writer Mike Isaac, a persistent tweeter and thorn in the
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 Uber Created Fake Lyft Accounts To Track Rival Drivers In Program Codenamed 'Hell' Uber sure knows how to codename a top-secret, legally suspect software program. A month after revelations that the ride-hailing giant used a system dubbed "greyball" to evade regulators by developing software to detect
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 Uber Exec Accused Of Stealing Google Self-Driving Car Secrets Pleads Fifth Over Criminal Charges Concerns Anthony Levandowski, an Uber executive whom CEO Travis Kalanick once called his "brother from another mother," is asserting his Fifth Amendment rights in a lawsuit filed by his former employer, Google. Levandowski's lawyers
SF News Read The Thoughts Of A Younger Travis Kalanick On This Eight-Year-Old Wordpress Blog At the ripe young age of 32, back in 2009, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick apparently launched a Wordpress blog called Swooshing, and for some reason he's never taken it down. The name is
SF News That Was Fast! Self-Driving Ubers Are Back On The Road, Everything Fine Now Driverless Uber vehicles were back on the streets of San Francisco this morning, the company confirmed to Reuters, after an exceedingly brief hiatus here and in other the testing cities of Tempe and
SF News Uber Board Member Arianna Huffington Says Travis Kalanick Isn't Going Anywhere, OK? Uber offered up a rare conference call for the news media Tuesday with just a few hours notice ahem, SFist was not invited in which board member Arianna Huffington tried to make the
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 Autonomous Ubers Drive Under A Mile On Average Before A Human Has To Take Over Now that Uber finally got those California DMV permits it originally said it totally didn't need, it's back testing some driverless cars under DMV supervision in the state. That means we're due to
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 Oh, So NOW Uber Wants DMV Permits For Self-Driving Car Tests In CA Two months after deploying self-driving cars to pick up customers in San Francisco with disregard that bordered on contempt for DMV permits, the company is abruptly hitting reverse. The San Jose Mercury News
SF News Uber CEO Is Sorry For Treatment Of Driver, Declares 'I Need Leadership Help' Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, 40, is going to "grow up." The executive issued a de rigueur apology — excuse me, "profound" apology — after a video released yesterday depicted him arguing with an Uber Black
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 Has Waymo Problems: Google Company Sues Over Allegedly Stolen Tech Uber schadenfreude continues in what's already been a hellish week for a company embroiled in scandal since Sunday after former engineer Susan Fowler went public with an account alleging sexual harassment and discrimination
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 Uber CEO Addresses Harassment, Discrimination Allegations In Company-Wide Email, Eric Holder To Review Investigation In former Uber engineer Susan Fowler's widely-circulated blog post "Reflecting On One Very, Very Strange Year At Uber," what was "strange" was repeated alleged sexual harassment, and what was "very" was the company's
