SF News Uber Suspends Driver For Engaging In Sex While A Backseat Passenger Was On A Trip We have a fresh story of an Uber driver behaving badly, and this time it didn't have to do with victimizing a passenger but rather making a passenger feel really, really uncomfortable while
SF News Lyft Gets In On Self-Driving Car Game With 'Level Five' & New Workforce In Palo Alto Lyft is nipping at the heels of main competitor Uber in joining the race to bring autonomous vehicles onto the road, but they're doing so with a slightly different and they say more
SF News BuzzFeed Exposé Details Uber's Out-Of-Control 'A**hole Culture' There has not been a new Uber scandal breaking today (though we're still a while from the end of the business day Pacific Daylight Time). There is, however, an epic, 6,500-word exposé
SF News Nobody Wants To Be Uber's Next CEO "You couldn't pay me enough money to take that job" is a response most likely heard when it comes to dangerous (skyscraper window washer), depressing (animal cop), or gross (BART janitor who doesn't
SF News Day Around The Bay: Uber Might Settle With Waymo Uber had a call with investors yesterday in which the company frantically tried to ease worries about their financial standing, and suggested there would likely be a settlement in the Google/Waymo case
SF News You'll Now Be Charged For Making An Uber Driver Wait Two Minutes, And Tipping Goes Live In NY, SF & LA The promised addition of an in-app tipping option for Uber rolls out today in a few dozen American and Canadian cities, and will be live nationwide by the end of July. Also today,
SF News Watch Stanley Roberts Shame Double-Parking Uber And Lyft Drivers KRON 4's Stanley Roberts' gig isn't for everyone — it takes a very specific type of temperament to withstand the confrontation he invites daily as he seeks to highlight bad Bay Area behavior. But
SF News Is Marissa Mayer In Line To Be Uber CEO? She Defends Kalanick: 'I Don't Think He Knew' Marissa Mayer, the former CEO of Yahoo, took the stage at the yearly Stanford Directors' College at Stanford Law School yesterday and defended embattled Uber founder Travis Kalanick, whom she calls a friend.
SF News A 25-Year-Old Uber Contractor Stole 25K In Uber Rides And Uber Eats A 25-year-old Uber contractor was charged with grand theft after stealing over $25,000 in Uber rides and Uber Eats delivery. That's a lot of vegan chili fries. CBS 5 reports that Bernie
SF News [Update] Uber Maybe Knew Self-Driving Exec Had Waymo's Stolen Files The latest court filing by Uber in the self-driving technology case brought by Waymo has them thoroughly throwing former self-driving vehicle division head Anthony Levandowski under the bus. The filing suggests that Uber,
SF News Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Resigns Under Pressure From Key Investors After some Tuesday night drama in Silicon Valley involving Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and several key investor in the embattled ride-hailing company all worthy of Silicon Valley the HBO show Kalanick has resigned
SF News Uber Finally Adds Tips For Drivers Signaling that possibly only one man has been standing in the way of Uber drivers being able to receive tips from passengers as they can with ride-hailing rival Lyft, the company announced Tuesday
SF News Alleged Road Rage Dirt Bikers Arrested In March Beating Of Lyft Driver In San Francisco You likely remember the tale: Back in March of this year, a driver on a San Francisco stretch of 101 was surrounded and attacked by a group of dirt bike riders, apparently because
SF News Time Magazine Takes On Uber With Brutal, One-Star Cover Scroll down for updates. A look at recent coverage of ride-hailing company Uber is, forgive the expression, like watching a car crash. It's horrible (for everyone, including employees, drivers, passengers, investors, and people
SF News Watch Everyone Violate The F-Market Transit Lane Pop quiz, hot shot: Who are the biggest traffic scofflaws on the F-Market tracks near Fisherman's Wharf? Your choices: A) Uber drivers B) Pedicabs C) Illegal U-turners D) Lyft drivers If you're KRON
SF News Report: Uber And Lyft Bloating SF Traffic By 15-20 Percent Rideshare behemoths Uber and Lyft purport to provide convenience for riders, but a new study drives home the point that these two companies in particular are burdening San Francisco with massive and broader
SF News Travis Kalanick Confirms Leave From Uber; Company Told To Curb Employees' Alcohol & Drug Use Confirming what has been credible rumor since Sunday, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick announced Tuesday that he would be taking an indefinite leave of absence from the company he founded to "work on Travis
SF News Confirmed: Longtime Kalanick Confidant Emil Michael Is Out At Uber Uber SVP Emil Michael leaves company after board unanimously approves Holder Report recommendations https://t.co/WRY0VaDqiX pic.twitter.com/l5biYgJivO— Forbes (@Forbes) June 12, 2017 Uber's second in command, Emil Michael, the
SF News Uber Board Said To Be Considering Leave Of Absence For Kalanick Uber's board of directors is meeting Sunday in Los Angeles to discuss the possible firings or forced resignations of some of its high-level executives in the wake of the results of a months-long
SF News Travis Kalanick Sent Uber Employees A Memo About Having Sex With Each Other, Twice The latest tidbit to trickle out from Uber's sexual harassment/culture-of-inappropriateness probe is an email, known internally as "the Miami letter," obtained by Recode, that CEO Travis Kalanick sent out to all Uber
SF News Uber Exec Fired Over His Handling Of Rape Victim's Case In India Following Tuesday's bloodletting at Uber in the wake of a company-wide probe into hundreds of claims of sexual harassment in which at least 20 employees were terminated Recode has learned that a high-level
SF News Uber Terminating More Than 20 People In Sexual Harassment Probe Uber's overall reputation has taken a lot of hits in 2017, not the least of which were allegations in February of widespread sexual harassment and an overall culture of sexism from a former
SF News Uber Lost 'Only' $708 Million Last Quarter, Top Finance Exec Resigns The Montgomery Burns of tech companies, Uber, revealed their 2017 first quarter earnings Wednesday, and lost $708 million says the San Francisco Business Times. But that’s “actually good by Uber standards” according
SF News Not Surprisingly, UberPool Has Been A Major Loss Leader Are you the "master" of your UberPool? Leaked internal documents obtained by Buzzfeed reveal some of UberPool's weird terminology, and the company's total hemorrhaging of money, passengers, and drivers. (We've known these prices
SF News Uber Fires Self-Driving Car Exec Anthony Levandowski Over Google Lawsuit Anthony Levandowski, a vice president of technology at Uber and reported close pal of CEO Travis Kalanick, has been terminated from the position he's held just over a year, originally heading up the
