Business & Tech Uber Adds Grocery Delivery In SF, Including From Safeway and Andronico's Uber is pushing further into the world of delivery with a major expansion of grocery delivery services this week, including in San Francisco.
Business & Tech San Francisco Attorney Intends to File 400 Separate Sexual Assault and Harassment Cases Against Uber A personal injury firm in San Francisco has filed 85 separate lawsuits on behalf of women who say they were sexually assaulted, falsely imprisoned, kidnapped, harassed, and/or stalked by Uber drivers, and they say they have over 300 more to go.
Business & Tech In Effort to Placate Employees, Uber Backtracks On Back-to-the-Office Plan Uber is the latest company to offer increasing flexibility for its workforce that has gotten very comfortable with their telecommuting situation.
SF News Pride Revelers Beware: Muni Shuts Early, Uber and Lyft Rides Are Going to Be Expensive You may want to strap on some good walking shoes if you're planning to party-hop during this late-pandemic Pride Weekend in San Francisco, because things aren't exactly back to normal with public transportation or the world of rideshares.
SF News Unmasked Uber Cough Monster Arna Kimiai Pleads Not Guilty In Assault on Driver Seen in Viral Video Though she essentially already admitted to the attack and offered a half-apology on Instagram Live, accused Uber driver assault suspect Arna Kimiai entered a not guilty plea to multiple charges on Monday.
SF News Uber Assault Suspect Malaysia King Was Arrested In Vegas for Bank Fraud; Uber Driver Thankful for GoFundMe Donations One of the two women now in police custody in connection with the highly publicized March 7 assault on an Uber driver in San Francisco was actually arrested for an alleged bank fraud scheme in Nevada in the days following the Uber incident.
SF News [Update] Uber Assault Suspect Arrested in Las Vegas The woman who yelled at, insulted, coughed on, and assaulted an Uber driver on Sunday because he told her to put on a mask, as seen in widely publicized video of the incident, has been arrested in Las Vegas.
SF News [Update] Awful Woman Coughs on SF Uber Driver, Tries to Steal His Phone After Being Told to Wear a Mask An Uber driver picked up a classy trio of young women during the brunch hours of Sunday in San Francisco, only to have one of them swear at him and cough on him after being told she needed to wear a mask.
Business & Tech Uber Acquires Alcohol-Delivery App Drizly For $1.1 Billion Once again showing that the company's priorities have shifted since the pandemic began, Uber has just purchased Boston-based booze-delivery app Drizly, so that you can make sure to get a side whiskey brought to your door with your burger and fries.
Business & Tech Uber Lays Off 15% of Postmates Staff, Just Two Months After Buying the Company Nearly 200 Postmates employees got pink slips Monday in the wake of being acquired by Uber, but top Postmates executives will get “multimillion dollar exit packages.”
Business & Tech Trump Pardons Anthony Levandowski, Convicted Thief of Autonomous Vehicle Trade Secrets Former Alphabet employee, Marin County resident and self-driving technology wunderkind Anthony Levandowski was one of 143 people to receive a last-minute pardon from Donald Trump on his way out of the White House.
Business & Tech Uber and Lyft Both in Rush To Offer ‘Free’ Rides to Get Vaccine (Many of Which Won’t Be Free) The two competing rideshare giants announce two different competing plans to offer free rides for vaccine shots, but the fine print shows plenty of these rides will not actually be free.
Business & Tech Uber Wants Its Non-Employee Drivers to Get Early Vaccines Industry trade organizations are lining up to lobby the CDC and states to get their workers high up in the queue of Americans waiting to receive the coronavirus vaccine, and Uber is lining up too.
Business & Tech Uber Eats' Business Up 190%, Company Has Still Lost Nearly $6 Billion This Year Shelter-in-place has been a windfall for Uber Eats, but the rideshare giant has still managed to lose $5.8 billion thus far in 2020.
SF News Election Limbo Headlines: Uber and Lyft Get Their Wish, Prop 22 Passes The dialysis regulation measure Prop 23 appears to be going down, Mark Kelly beat Martha McSally for the Arizona Senate seat, and as promised Facebook and Twitter flagged Trump's false claims about winning the election and the Democrats trying to "steal" it.
SF Politics Uber and Lyft’s Prop 22 Only Up By 3 Points in Poll, Despite $186 Million War Chest An all-time California record of campaign cash has not yet sealed the deal for Lyft and Uber in their campaign to ensure their drivers are not classified as employees.
Business & Tech Day Around the Bay: Uber Self-Driving Car Operator Charged In Arizona Killing A federally funded Berkeley lab has stopped its diversity training due to Trump's order, Tom Steyer is selling his Pac Heights mansion for $11 million, and Oregon is being threatened with dry lightning.
Business & Tech Uber and Lyft Will Not Shut Down at Midnight After Last-Minute Reprieve Lyft was about to shut down all California rideshare operations at the stroke of midnight, but an appeals court granted a reprieve only about 12 hours before that would have happened.
Business & Tech As California Labor Case Heads For Appeal, Uber Says It May Halt Operations In State Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi gave an interview on MSNBC Wednesday morning saying that the company would likely have to shut down operations in California for at least several months if it is forced to make all its drivers employees.
Business & Tech Self-Driving Car Engineer Anthony Levandowksi Gets 18-Month Sentence For Stealing Waymo Technology One time Google/Alphabet employee Anthony Levandowski, who jumped ship to take a generous offer from Uber in 2016 that included $680 million for his self-driving truck startup Otto, has just been sentenced to 18 months in jail for stealing trade secrets.
Business & Tech Uber Is Now Trying to Buy Postmates San Francisco-based Uber, in a bid to secure Uber Eats as a major player in the future of food delivery, is courting another rival for a possible acquisition — and like with the recently failed courtship of Grubhub, they are not Postmates' only suitor.
SF News Uber Passenger Arrested for Battery and Carjacking After Driver Pulls Off Freeway to Pick Up Another Fare Some key details are a little unclear, but a Belmont man was arrested Friday night in what police are saying was an argument over an itinerary change that led to a violent exchange between an Uber passenger and a driver.
Business & Tech Uber Lays Off Another 3,000 Workers, Bringing This Round to 6,700 Twelve days after announcing the slashing of 3,700 jobs, Uber says it is laying off another 3,000 workers and closing one of its San Francisco offices entirely.
Business & Tech Uber Reportedly In Talks To Acquire GrubHub As the pandemic has shifted Uber's business thinking in the direction of more food delivery, the company has reportedly made an offer to acquire GrubHub, the app-based meal delivery rival of Uber Eats and parent company of the Seamless, MenuPages, and Eat24 brands.
Business & Tech Uber Lays Off 3,700 Workers In Customer Support and Recruiting Following on big layoff announcements in recent days by Airbnb and Lyft, Uber announced Wednesday that it is letting go of 3,700 employees due to the pandemic lockdown.
