SF News Read The Thoughts Of A Younger Travis Kalanick On This Eight-Year-Old Wordpress Blog At the ripe young age of 32, back in 2009, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick apparently launched a Wordpress blog called Swooshing, and for some reason he's never taken it down. The name is
SF News Ugh: Lyft CEO Declares 'We're Woke' As customers give Uber hell over a steady stream of recent scandals, its distant second in the American ride-hailing market, Lyft, has been the beneficiary of tremendous good will, ride-hail dollars, and app
SF News Uber's First Diversity Report: Not Very Uber has been forced to take a long, hard look in the mirror after a series of scandals that mostly boil down to reflections of the company's aggressive attitude and corporate culture. At
SF News That Was Fast! Self-Driving Ubers Are Back On The Road, Everything Fine Now Driverless Uber vehicles were back on the streets of San Francisco this morning, the company confirmed to Reuters, after an exceedingly brief hiatus here and in other the testing cities of Tempe and
SF News Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars Off The Road After One Flips Over In Arizona Collision BREAKING: Self-driving Uber vehicle on it’s side after a collision in Tempe, AZ. Photos by @fresconews user Mark Beach pic.twitter.com/5NCF2KG0rW— Fresco News (@fresconews) March 25, 2017 Uber once again
SF News Uber Board Member Arianna Huffington Says Travis Kalanick Isn't Going Anywhere, OK? Uber offered up a rare conference call for the news media Tuesday with just a few hours notice ahem, SFist was not invited in which board member Arianna Huffington tried to make the
SF News Uber Buys Half The Office Space At New Warriors' Arena, Scales Back Oakland Plans Rather than placing its emphasis on the downtown Oakland offices it purchased in 2015, embattled ride-hailing giant Uber will be renting much of the massive East Bay space it owns to others, placing
SF News Uber Executive Exodus: Company President, Maps Leader, And More Bail Uber president of ride-sharing Joe Jones, the company's second in command who was poached from a position at Target just six months ago, is leaving the company in a huff. His departure, complete
SF News Autonomous Ubers Drive Under A Mile On Average Before A Human Has To Take Over Now that Uber finally got those California DMV permits it originally said it totally didn't need, it's back testing some driverless cars under DMV supervision in the state. That means we're due to
SF News Google Asking Judge To Keep Uber's Autonomous Cars Off The Road The latest salvo in what could be a very long and drawn out battle between Alphabet-owned self-driving car startup Waymo and Uber comes in a court filing formally asking a federal judge to
SF News Uber Will Quit Greyballing And Has Self-Driving Permits And Is Very Good Now, Okay? Hope everyone is ready to download Uber again, because these folks are back on track! For starters, after the $70-billion valued ride-hailing company was called out by a report in the New York
SF News Nation's First Driverless Shuttles Begin Ferrying Workers Around Bay Area Office Park On Monday, two autonomous passenger shuttles built by the French company EasyMile began picking up passengers to move them around the Bishop Ranch office park in San Ramon, 35 miles east of San
SF News Uber Evaded Authorities In Multiple Cities With Secret, Potentially Illegal 'Greyball' System Well, well, well. Uber has really done it this time. Four current and former employees of the ride-hailing giant reveal to the New York Times that for years during the company's rapid expansion
SF News Oh, So NOW Uber Wants DMV Permits For Self-Driving Car Tests In CA Two months after deploying self-driving cars to pick up customers in San Francisco with disregard that bordered on contempt for DMV permits, the company is abruptly hitting reverse. The San Jose Mercury News
SF News Double-Parking Uber And Lyft Drivers Scramble To Beat Bus Cameras It's one of those moments of media confluence: One the same day that the SF Chronicle announces via headline that "Parking scofflaws can’t escape Muni bus cameras," KRON 4's Stanley Roberts shows
SF News Uber CEO Is Sorry For Treatment Of Driver, Declares 'I Need Leadership Help' Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, 40, is going to "grow up." The executive issued a de rigueur apology — excuse me, "profound" apology — after a video released yesterday depicted him arguing with an Uber Black
SF News Video: Uber CEO Tells His Uber Driver To 'Take Responsibility' In Argument Over Rates Dashcam video surreptitiously recorded by Uber driver Fawzi Kamel shows company CEO Travis Kalanick getting a ride earlier this month about which he'll soon be forced to give a comment and apology, a
SF News Uber Exec Who Left Previous Job At Google Over Sexual Harassment Allegations Is Fired Uber's woeful month continues with the ignominious departure of senior vice president of engineering Amit Singhal, forced to resign by company CEO Travis Kalanick after tech publication Recode started asking questions about Singhal's
SF News Self-Driving Uber That Was Caught On Video Running Red Light Was Driving Itself You'll recall that immediately after launching their self-driving car program in SF in December, Uber had a PR problem involving one of those cars that was caught on a taxi's dash cam blowing
SF News Uber Has Waymo Problems: Google Company Sues Over Allegedly Stolen Tech Uber schadenfreude continues in what's already been a hellish week for a company embroiled in scandal since Sunday after former engineer Susan Fowler went public with an account alleging sexual harassment and discrimination
SF News Uber Did A Bad And Is Very Sorry, Okay? Since Sunday, when a widely circulated account from a former company engineer shed light on an alleged culture of harassment and HR failure within Uber, senior leadership at the ride-hailing giant, most notably
SF News Uber Board Member Arianna Huffington Will Hold Leadership's 'Feet To The Fire' Over Sexual Harassment Allegations In April 2016, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick announced that publisher and business mogul Arianna Huffington would join his company's board of directors, praising her "emotional intelligence," the kind women tend to have so
SF News Uber CEO Addresses Harassment, Discrimination Allegations In Company-Wide Email, Eric Holder To Review Investigation In former Uber engineer Susan Fowler's widely-circulated blog post "Reflecting On One Very, Very Strange Year At Uber," what was "strange" was repeated alleged sexual harassment, and what was "very" was the company's
SF News Ex-Uber Engineer Says Company Is Full Of Sexual Harassment, Intimidation Yesterday, engineer Susan Fowler Tweeted, "I wrote something up this weekend about my year at Uber, and why I left," with a link to an essay titled, "Reflecting On One Very, Very Strange
SF News Is Influx Of Out Of Town Uber And Lyft Drivers Why Bay Area Traffic Stinks? It's hard to know what to believe in the war of words over the Bay Area's traffic woes. A 2015 study put San Francisco third in the country for congestion, behind only LA
