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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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