SF News Uber Lost More Than 200,000 Customers In #DeleteUber Campaign Though they were, it turns out, falsely accused of trying to break up a taxi strike at JFK Airport last weekend, the social media response was nonetheless swift and damaging, and we now
SF News Uber CEO To Step Down From Trump Advisory Council Hold the protests! Uber's good now! That, at least, could be the message the company hopes to convey with news that Travis Kalanick, CEO of the massive Silicon Valley ride-hailing business, is stepping
SF News Lyft Surpasses Uber In App Store Downloads As #DeleteUber Trend Continues Uber's loss is Lyft's gain as the long-running battle between the two San Francisco-based ride-hailing companies takes on a political valence. Reports (possibly spurious) that Uber had continued to operate to-and-from New York's
SF News Mayor Considering Legal Action As Self-Driving Ubers Continue To Roam SF Streets With Uber executives vowing to keep their self-driving cars on San Francisco streets in the face of opposition from both local and state officials, Mayor Ed Lee is exploring the possibility of taking
SF News Elon Musk And Travis Kalanick Just Joined Trump's Advisory Team It looks like Facebook board member Peter Thiel will now have some company in his late-night cram sessions with President-elect Donald Trump. The Washington Post reports that Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and Tesla
SF News Uber Says 'FU' To DMV, Rolls Out Self-Driving Cars Without Approval Uber's self-driving cars are now picking up passengers on the streets of San Francisco. Starting today, the company will make its autonomous vehicles available to customers hailing an UberX ride through the app.
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 Here Are The 14 Current Richest Bay Area Residents, According To Forbes When you think about the richest residents of the Bay Area, obviously Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, and Travis Kalanick probably come to mind, but you may wonder just who else is sitting on
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 CEO: IPO Currently Planned For Never Because Market Is 'Irrational' Marc Benioff, billionaire philanthropist and noted unicorn skeptic, said last year that “The unicorn mania that’s going on, that’s dangerous for our Silicon Valley economy." As opposed to crazytalk private investments
SF News Amid Massive Losses, Thirsty Uber Gambles On Lower Prices, Higher Volume Silicon Valley's leakiest unicorn is betting on cheaper rates, more drivers, and greater ride volume to make a profit. Losses for Uber, a professional contracting service, grew to $1.7 billion on $1.
SF News UberRush, Literally Uber For Deliveries, Launches Today In NY, SF, And Chicago Today in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, Uber is barging in with a behind-the-scenes service aimed at businesses who wish to deliver their wares, whatever they be, to customers via Uber's vast
SF News Video: Uber's Travis Kalanick Asks 'Am I Going To Be Part Of The Future Or Am I Going To Resist It?' Uber's C.E.-bro Travis Kalanick has been on what reads to many as an apology tour, appearing on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, posing for a piece of corporate portraiture in
SF News The Life Of Another Uber Non-Employee: The Customer Service Rep A video posted by Uber (@uber) on Jun 1, 2015 at 10:13am PDT An anonymous personal essay on The Billfold, a website about finance, takes on a subset of the many contractors
Arts & Entertainment Uber CEO Heckled By Cab Drivers On <i>Late Show With Stephen Colbert</i> Uber CEO Travis Kalanick appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night only to be yelled at by an audience member during the taping about how the company is "ruining" the
SF News First Week Of Colbert's 'Late Show' Will Feature Elon Musk And Travis Kalanick by Jack Morse Not content to disrupt the way we move from Point A to Point B, tech CEO's Elon Musk and Travis Kalanick will be disrupting our late-night comedy in the coming
SF News Internal Documents Show Uber's Losses Accelerating A video posted by Uber (@uber) on Jun 1, 2015 at 10:13am PDT Uber is undeniably fast, a turbo-charged take on the "move fast and break things" axiom. But while raising capital
SF News The Cars Uber Shows You Before You Hail A Ride Are Bogus “I know this seems a misleading to you," an Uber staffer tells Vice of the Uber cars you see on the app as you prepare to a hail a car, "but it is
SF News Grand Theft Uber: Company Releases Mobile Game To Test Knowledge Of SF Streets (And Recruit Drivers) Without Google Maps, could Uber even exist? As an increasing number of ride-hailing drivers live outside of the area in which they operate, a fair few are mostly or completely reliant on their
SF News Uber May Be Signaling An IPO, Poached Carnegie Mellon Lab For Self-Driving Car Prototype A photo posted by Uber (@uber) on Oct 31, 2014 at 10:23am PDT All ride-hail Uber. Yes, you can follow them on Instagram for more unintentionally brilliant stuff like this. But while
SF News These Four San Franciscans Are Among Forbes' 20 Richest People The World Wealth. Power. The four San Franciscans to make the élite Forbes list of the 20 richest people in the world have both and more. So, drumroll please! Your money-havers are Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey
SF News Uber CEO Says SF Revenues Are $500 Million Per Year, Others Question Figure Business Insider reports that in Munich yesterday Uber CEO Travis Kalanick announced that Uber's revenue in San Francisco is far larger than that of the taxi industry here. What's more, it's possible that
SF News Travis Kalanick Has (At Least One) Stalker, Uber Files Civil Harassment Claim Robert Scott Dervaes, Jr. is allegedly stalking and threatening Travis Kalanick, and Uber Technolgies has filed a Civil Harassment claim against him. Dervaes is a 45-year-old disbarred San Francisco lawyer whose Twitter feed
SF News Uber To Improve Background Checks With Biometric Verification Uber Technologies wants to improve its foolproof, "industry leading" background checks on its drivers... implicitly admitting that in different locations the company's checks "vary significantly." Yes, CEO Travis Kalanick's road to riches (remember
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
