SF News Angry Cabbies Now Sporting Anti-Uber Bumper Stickers Cabbies fed up with UberX taking all their business now have bumper stickers on their cabs that make joking reference to the case of Patrick Karajah, the UberX driver who allegedly attacked passenger
SF News New Lyft Service Lets Commuting Drivers Pick Up Passengers Along Their Route To Work According to Lyft, around 80% of commuting drivers make their daily trek alone. So, the company is debuting a service called Driver Destination. Lonely commuters stand to gain $400 a month just picking
SF News Day Around The Bay: Twitter CFO's DM Fail Twitter CFO means to DM, tweets instead: "I think we should buy them." Remember, always screenshot the tweet! [Buzzfeed] Google removed a homophobic/gay killing game called “Ass Hunter” from the Android store.
SF News Geico's Leaked Stance On Coverage for Rideshare Drivers An internal sales-training document from Geico suggests an answer to the question of whether policyholders can give paid rides through Uber and Lyft while maintaining their personal coverage: Nope. "If a customer advises
SF News Report: SF's Dirtiest Stretch Of Street Is Still Mid-Market Newsflash: Mid-Market, despite high-profile revitalization efforts, is still very dirty and smells resultantly horrific. According to a survey conducted by the City’s Office of the Controller, Tweet Street the Twitter section of
SF News New York Times Wants Silicon Valley To 'Grow Up?' Not So Fast! After Uber henchman Emil Michael bragged about his bright idea to spend $1 million to investigate "shady" journalists' private lives (and "Dude, Where's My Uber?" star Ashton Kutcher stepped in right beside) the
SF News Uber Investor Ashton Kutcher Supports Digging Up Dirt On "Shady" Journalists After it was revealed that a top Uber executive bragged about potentially hiring a team to smear its critics in the media, the company quickly tried to apologize and distance itself. Uber CEO
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
SF News SFO Now A Battleground For Taxi And SuperShuttle Protests With Uber, Lyft and Sidecar now fair game at San Francisco International Airport, taxi and SuperShuttle drivers might be SOL at SFO. Nonetheless, each group of workers staged protests in the past two
SF News Uber Executive Bragged About Idea To Spend $1 Million To Investigate Journalists' Private Lives Of all the things to say while talking to a journalist: A high-profile executive at Uber told BuzzFeed's editor-in-chief about his idea to hire a team to dig up dirt on the lives
Arts & Entertainment Uber and Spotify Partner So That You Can Stream Your Playlists In The Car Just the other day a friend and I were wondering why Uber and Spotify hadn't partnered yet so that you could stream your preferred playlist the minute you got in an Uber car.
SF News Green Cab Nears Breakdown A founder of the worker-owned, 16-vehicle Green Cab company, Mark Gruberg is in a tight spot. Mission Local reports that his business has been unable to find a new insurance policy from an
SF News Lyft Driver Thwarts Robbery Hammering home Lyft's reputation for friendliness, a driver for the rideshare company sprang from his Lyftmobile to thwart the robbery of a 67-year-old woman by four teenage girls, as CBS 5 is reporting.
Arts & Entertainment Uber Delivering Kitten Cuddles Once Again Today In a drive to encourage kitten adoption, and just generally to pimp their brand again, Uber is doing that kitten delivery thing again today from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. They
SF News Uber, Lyft, And Sidecar All Now Legal At SFO We thought maybe Sidecar had struck some kind of sweetheart deal last week getting permits to drop off and pick up passengers at SFO, but it turns out the other rideshare companies got
SF News UberX Driver Denies Woman's Allegations That He Dragged Her From Car, Smashed Her Phone [Updated] Uber is under fire yet again, after a San Francisco woman says that a driver with the company's UberX service dragged her from his car and threw her phone when she wasn't immediately
Arts & Entertainment Lyft, Uber Mocked On <i>South Park</i> It was only a matter of time before the ride-sharing craze made it onto South Park, and now it has. Watch as Timmy starts a company called Handicar, which quickly expands into more
SF News Sidecar Just Won The Right To Operate At SFO In what the company is calling a "milestone agreement," Sidecar just became the first ride-share company to get a permit to operate at San Francisco International Airport. The service is expected to be
SF News Uber Goes On The Offensive, Sets Up Anti-Taxi Website "The Taxi Files: #HailFail San Francisco Edition" read the subject line of a pre-packaged, HTML formatted email sent to SFist's inbox. The subject matter: San Francisco taxi drivers are murderous, poorly regulated sex-offenders
SF News Should You Be Worried About Uber's Stalkery 'God View'? by Caleb Pershan When Uber allegedly showed off its “God View” at a Chicago launch party in 2011, it was a simpler time. Americans, just glimpsing the coming rideshare revolution and oblivious to
SF News UberX Driver Accused Of Bashing Cavalier Bartender With Hammer Took Freeway To Get From SoMa To Lower Haight A few more details have emerged in the alleged hammer attack by an UberX driver on a San Francisco man, including information on how the route the driver took might have precipitated the
SF News Man Allegedly Bashed By Hammer-Wielding UberX Driver Could Lose An Eye The UberX driver accused of striking a passenger in the head with a hammer during a ride in San Francisco did not have a previous criminal record — but that fact didn't stop SF's
SF News UberX Driver Accused Of Bashing Passenger In Head With Hammer During SF Ride The timing on this one seems odd, doesn't it? According to the San Francisco Chronicle, an UberX driver pleaded not guilty in San Francisco Superior Court on Thursday after allegations that he bashed
SF News District Attorneys Call Uber, Lyft, And Sidecar 'A Continuing Threat To Consumers' [Updated] Bad news hit the desks of ride-share company execs this week: The district attorneys of S.F. and L.A. have teamed up to investigate Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar for a handful of
SF News Day Around The Bay: Ai Weiwei Not Way Awesome? The Chron's review of the Ai Weiwei installation on Alcatraz is not great! [Chron] Uber is putting the screws to new drivers, charging a 25-percent commission to all newbies who sign up as
