Arts & Entertainment Video: Funny Or Die Mocks Uber Evilness An Apology From Uber from Funny Or Die In one of those inevitabilities of internet comedy, Funny or Die has just satirized the various Uber scandals and controversies of the last year, including
SF News Taxi Cab And Uber Car Collide Before Cab Crashes Bar In a decidedly literal collision, the Chronicle has word that an Uber car and a taxi cab have crashed into one another today. The incident took place at 9:24 a.m on
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
Arts & Entertainment Video: All About Uberex, A Service Where Your Ex Drives You Around And It's Really Awkward Riding in a Uber can be uncomfortable enough, what with the confusion over tipping, journalist-stalking, and hammer attacks. Add to those indignities the prospect of having to ride in a car driven by
SF News DeSoto Cab Co. Rebrands Itself As Flywheel The latest chapter in the rideshare-taxi war has San Francisco's oldest cab company, DeSoto, letting go of its entire brand and image in favor of aligning itself with the Flywheel taxi-hailing app. As
SF News Now Uber Drivers Want You To Tip We all knew it was too good to last, right? Well, Uber drivers, now envious that Lyft and regular taxi drivers get nice gratuities from passengers, are pushing to get a gratuity function
Arts & Entertainment Video: All About 'Uber Seize,' Which Lets You Hijack Any Car You Want When we told you guys about the plight of Roberto Baldwin, who had some random person hop into his car under the assumption that he was an Uber driver, your reactions veered from
SF News Google Is Developing Its Own Uber For Driverless Cars Former allies Uber and Google look to be at odds as each plans for a future driven by autonomous taxis. It's going to be a race for several years, but it looks like
SF News Will Uber And Lyft Be Forced To Treat Drivers As Employees? A federal judge struck a blow to the business models of "ride-sharing" companies like Uber and Lyft by suggesting that it's not legal to treat drivers as independent contractors, and the companies may
SF News DMV Pulls U-Turn, Retracts Requirement For Commercial Plates On Uber/Lyft Cars California DMV Director Jean Shiomoto retracted Vehicle Industry News alert VIN 2015-01 on Friday night, which affected ride hailing operators like Uber, Lyft and Sidecar. Specifically, the now defunct alert claimed that "Any
SF News DMV Declares That Uber/Lyft Drivers Need Commercial License Plates "Any passenger vehicle used or maintained for the transportation of persons for hire, compensation, or profit is a commercial vehicle," reads a recent advisory issued by the California DMV with regard to Uber,
SF News Lyft Vehicles Lose Furry Pink 'Carstaches' For Good The furry pink front bumper mustache on Lyft's fleet of cars was equally iconic and annoying. So, in a rebranding effort, it's been shaved and replaced with a small, arguably more tasteful, glowing
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 NYE Ride Guide: Battle Royale For Rideshares, Taxis, And Mass Transit As the proverbial ball begins to drop on this New Year's Eve, there's plenty to eat, do, and drink, as we've underscored in this guide to the best fetes in town. While getting
SF News Day Around The Bay: SFPD Short On Toys The SFPD toy drive came up short, and here's why. [Examiner] Payne Mansion opens as hotel and events space, but it's still for sale. [Business Times] The SOMA Leadership council opposes the Commonwealth
SF News Sidecar Now Lets You Choose Women Drivers In response to the growing safety concerns swirling around Uber, which are now making national headlines that include the story of the woman in Boston raped by an UberX driver, smaller ride-share upstart
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 Commands $100 Surge Fares During Sydney Hostage Standoff, Apologizes Uber took some heat in Australia, and the international press, on Monday when the app started commanding quadruple-rate surge pricing in Sydney's central business district during what would become a 16-hour hostage crisis
SF News Threat-Happy Uber Exec Also Threatened His Landlord With Police Action When you hilariously joke about digging/threaten to dig up dirt on journalists who are critical of your company, as Uber Executive Emil Michael did to intense backlash last month, what do you
SF News Despite Promise Not To Price Gouge During Storms, Uber's Surge Pricing Hits Shocking High In San Francisco Today Would you characterize today's events in San Francisco as those indicative of “any change in the market, whether actual or imminently threatened, resulting from stress of weather, convulsion of nature, failure or shortage
SF News SF, LA District Attorneys Suing Uber Uber, recently embroiled in a scandal involving not-so-veiled threats against unfriendly journalists, accused of operating illegally by the city of Portland, banned in Delhi, and ordered to halt operations in Spain and Thailand,
SF News DA's Office Takes A Year To Figure Out Charges For Former Uber Driver Who Allegedly Killed 6-Year-Old [Updated] Nearly a full year after a man driving for Uber allegedly struck and killed a 6-year-old girl, the San Francisco District Attorney's Office has decided to charge him with a single misdemeanor count.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Reprieve For Inflatable Pleasanton Snowman The giant inflatable Pleasanton snowman will stay for Christmas after all. [CBS SF] Those expensive palm trees on the Bay Bridge? They're rotting and falling apart. [Chronicle] A USPS truck fire has damaged,
SF News Another Private Bus Service Enters The Marina Commute Race, This One With Twitter Money Though we've already bemoaned the pompously named Chariot that caters to Marina folk, everyone seems to want a seat on the bus privatization bus. Now the San Francisco Business Times introduces us to
