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 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 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 Uber Driver Leads CHP On 100-Mph Chase Through Five East Bay Cities "We don't know why he ran," officer Sean Wilkenfeld, a California Highway Patrol spokesperson, told the Contra Costa Times, referring to a Newark man and recent Uber driver who led officers on a
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 Restaurants, Food & Drink SpoonRocket Shuts Down On Same Day That UberEats Launches Standalone App On-demand meal delivery service SpoonRocket announced today that it is shutting down, effective immediately. The Berkeley-based company, reports TechCrunch, was unable to secure additional funding and when a last-ditch effort at negotiating an
SF News Uber Driver Charged With Killing 6 In Kalamazoo Shootings Says Devil Appeared In App After recently starting as an Uber driver-partner, on February 20th Jason Dalton allegedly shot and killed six strangers, perhaps picking up other passengers in between and after the murders, in Kalamazoo, Michigan. A
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 Lyft App Not Approved By California Regulators For Calculating Fares Uber and Lyft have changed the taxi industry in many ways. The most obvious: supplanting the old-school meter that calculated distance by monitoring wheel rotations with a supposedly more accurate GPS meter. Measuring
SF News [Update] Leaked Internal Searches At Uber Customer Support Show Thousands Of Results For 'Sexual Assault' Search queries for terms like "rape" and "sexual assault" conducted by a former Uber customer service representative on Uber’s Zendesk customer support platform returned a staggeringly high volume of results. Those were
SF News Why Are There So Many Uber Drivers Sleeping In The Safeway Parking Lot? The other night I had an UberX driver tell me, in detail, how he was attempting to crank out 25 rides that evening, no matter how long it took him, and that I
SF News Uber, Lyft Drivers Struggle With Onerous Terms Of Partner-Leased Cars A photo posted by Uber (@uber) on Nov 19, 2015 at 9:56am PST It appears that in the case of some Uber and Lyft drivers, the ride-hail companies truly get them coming
SF News Online Sales of Lyft Mustaches And Uber Decals Raise Questions An online market for Uber decals and Lyft "glowstaches" has raised questions as to why anyone would pay for what drivers of the two ride-hail companies get for free. The decals, which are
SF News Police Searching For Uber Driver Who Allegedly Assaulted Man After Dispute In San Jose San Jose Police are on the lookout for a man they believe to be an Uber driver after a dispute last Thursday regarding speeding got heated. According to police, a worker at Mineta
SF News Uber Driver Charged With Killing 6 In Michigan Spree May Have Driven Passengers Between, After Shootings A Kalamazoo, Michigan man arrested on suspicion of killing six people this weekend was a driver-partner for Uber, the San Francisco-based company confirms. Furthermore, authorities are investigating unconfirmed reports that the suspect may
SF News Uber Offers To Pay $28.5 Million To Customers, Rename 'Safe Ride Fee' To Settle Lawsuits A photo posted by Uber (@uber) on Nov 19, 2015 at 9:56am PST In order to settle two class-action lawsuits that allege misleading advertising regarding safety, Uber has offered to pay $28.
SF News Uber Drivers' Super Bowl Protest Was A Total Bust A planned strike by Uber drivers as well as a protest near the gates of Levi's Stadium both failed to have any real impact in the Bay Area on Super Bowl Sunday, however
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SF News Uber Employee Appears To Record Protesting Drivers' License Plates, Denies Affiliation With Company In relation to Monday's protest held by 200 or so drivers, a company spokesperson tells BuzzFeed that “Uber respects our partners’ first amendment rights" and that they "do not — and have not — taken
SF News Uber Protest Less Disruptive Than Imagined With Just 200 Of 1,500 Expected Drivers The "Uber Drivers United" representative whose call to protest the company's recent fare cuts — from 10 to 45 percent in 100 North American cities such as San Francisco — might have been tooting his
SF News Uber Is Now Delivering Joe Montana To Play Touch Football With You As part of a week-long series of events meant to co-promote the company next to Super Bowl 50, San Francisco-based Uber will deliver you to 49er football legend Joe Montana for a game
SF News 1500-2000 Uber Drivers Expected To Participate In Super Bowl Protest Monday "Because we have the Super Bowl happening here, we have them by the balls," "Uber Drivers United" leader Mario says in a video posted to YouTube Sunday. That why, he says, between 1500-2000
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 Video: Uber Drivers Stage 'Honk-In' Protest Over Wages In Front Of Uber HQ Uber drivers protesting #Uber #UberProtest #iloveSF #sanfrancisco #beepbeep #honkhonk #stfu A video posted by @pawshbb on Jan 25, 2016 at 3:55pm PST Uber drivers, upset over an announcement by the company earlier
