SF News Last Night, My Uber Driver Said He Was Going To Rape And Kill Me Last night, I had dinner with my SFist colleagues. We wanted to sing karaoke after we ate, but The Mint was too busy. At around 10 p.m. we called it a night.
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 California Approves Lyft-Specific Car Insurance Drivers for Lyft and Uber must (theoretically, and yeah, legally) be insured at all times on the road. The ride-hailing process, however, is a unique one. There's driving around as a private citizen
SF News Uber, Airbnb Execs Sued By Live-In Domestic Worker For Years Of Sexual Harassment, Wage Theft Today in San Francisco Superior Court, Julieta Yang, a 45-year-old mother of three from the Philippines filed a lawsuit alleging years of sexual abuse and wage theft as a live-in domestic worker for
SF News Sheisty Uber Driver Allegedly Steals Sleeping Passenger's Wallet, Goes On SF Spending Spree The next time you find yourself nodding off in an Uber, just use this simple trick to stay awake: Remind yourself that one uber-shady Uber driver stands accused of stealing a passenger's wallet
SF News Flywheel Taxi Sues For Cities To Regulate Uber And Lyft In order to level what they deem to be an unfair field of competition against the likes of Uber and Lyft, Flywheel Taxi of San Francisco is suing California regulators, the Chronicle and
SF News Uber Steal: Oakland Offices Were Total Bargain Lane Partners - Uptown Station from steelblue on Vimeo. Surge pricing was seemingly not applied to Uber's purchase of the 380,000-square-foot Oakland Sears Building — or, as it's been rebranded following a $40
SF News Will Uber Be Oakland's Savior, Or Just Become Occupy's Next Target? Reactions have been across the map to yesterday's big news that Uber had snagged the huge former Sears building in downtown Oakland for what will be a new East Bay sister-headquarters come 2017.
SF News Uber Plops Down In Oakland, Buys Huge Former Sears Building Uber has just announced that it's buying a huge amount of office space 350,000 square feet purchasing the former Sears building on Broadway in downtown Oakland. When rumors of the deal circulated
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 Day Around The Bay: Another Uber Driver Declared An Employee California's Employment Development Department just declared another Uber driver an employee, not a contractor. [Reuters] People keep robbing tourists’ cars, and the SFPD seems powerless to stop them, per Nevius. [Chron] Alice Waters
SF News Uber Class Action To Make Drivers Employees Moves Forward A federal judge has ruled that a lawsuit proceeding in San Francisco against Uber to get drivers reclassified as employees instead of independent contractors can move forward as a class action. This means
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 SF And LA District Attorneys: 'Some Uber Drivers Are Murderers And Felons' According to a new amended complaint by the district attorneys of San Francisco and Los Angeles, Uber's background-check method is inferior to that of regular taxi companies, and it failed to catch the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink UberEats Just Launched In SF, Here's What They're Offering With a dramatic website launch and video flourish featuring chefs from Craftsman and Wolves and Uno Dos Tacos (not pictured: fat checks), Uber announced its entry into SF' s crowded food space, just
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 San Francisco's Massive Venture Capital Haul, By The Numbers The San Francisco Business Times reports that venture capitalists are ramping up to drop "dot-com era levels" of dough on US companies by the end of 2015. Unsurprisingly, a lot of that money
SF News Your UberX Driver Is Also Probably Your Postmates And Washio Delivery Person A new survey by a dubiously named outfit called SherpaShare which itself is a service portal for workers in the gig/sharing economy confirms that many drivers for services like Uber and Lyft
SF News SF Woman And Boyfriend Assaulted By Fellow Lyft Line Passenger Everyone who loves the cheapness of Uber Pool and Lyft Line, take heed: You never know who you're sharing a car with. A cautionary tale came in via the tip line regarding a
SF News Cleaning Service Startup Homejoy Shuts Down Over Worker Classification Lawsuits In what could be the first of several shakeups in the "on-demand" / "gig economy," San Francisco-based startup Homejoy is calling it quits on July 31. The primary reason: It's fighting four lawsuits over
SF News Jeb Bush Trolls Hillary Clinton By Taking Uber To SoMa Startup Jeb! Uber! Startups! Today, the Associated Press reports in the New York Times that presidential hopeful Jeb Bush gave ride-sharing "technology" a whirl during his visit to San Francisco. Bush hailed an Uber
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
