Police credit Uber driver Keith Avila for helping rescue a teenage girl out of sex trafficking Monday night, says a Fox 59 report. Avila had a feeling something was wrong after giving a ride to a young girl and two older women to a Holiday
A Texas Uber driver who struck up a conversation about football got the shock of his life after criticizing Texas Longhorns coach Mack Brown, and then turned around to see the coach sitting right there in his back seat.
Google recently resigned from Uber’s board as the former partners prepare for battle over self-driving cars. Away from California Attorney General Kamala Harris’ effort to mediate the battle between Uber and the state Department of Motor Vehicles over the unpermitted deployment of self-driving cars — which were pulled off the street Wednesday — the corporate fight is intensifying.
Uber has acknowledged its self-driving cars are a danger to bicycles — even as the company battles San Francisco and the California Department of Motor Vehicles over operating the vehicles in the city without a permit.
Beverly Hills Mayor John A. Mirisch has taken Uber’s side in its fight with the State of California over the company’s effort to roll out self-driving cars without a special permit.
Police in Aventura, Florida, say an Uber driver shot and killed a suspect during an alleged armed robbery early Sunday morning.
An armed Uber driver in Florida stopped an armed robbery attack by shooting and killing one of the suspects.
Ride-hailing company Uber picked a fight with the California Department of Motor Vehicles on December 14 by commercially launching self-driving cars in San Francisco without first seeking a state permit for qualified testing.
Deadpool and HBO’s Silicon Valley star T. J. Miller was arrested in Hollywood early Friday morning for allegedly beating the driver of a car in which he was riding.
Uber has released a new set of community guidelines for customers, including bans on drugs, rude language, and even flirting.
In his second “The Resistance” special commentary for GQ magazine in two days, former MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann lashed out at a Donald Trump presidency, this time on the grounds of the grounds that the Trump transition team was engaging
A trade union is seeking recognition from British food delivery firm Deliveroo to allow it to negotiate a collective pay deal for its drivers, in the latest push for greater employment rights that could hit the flourishing ‘gig economy’.
Uber picked up its 71st federal lawsuit this week when a venerable San Francisco taxi company filed an anti-trust suit for monopoly, illegal business practices, and predatory pricing.
Ken Bone, the man who became an internet sensation after asking a question at the last presidential debate, has gone from hero to villain in the eyes of some after using his newfound fame to promote Uber.
Uber could be working on passenger-carrying drone technology that would fly customers to their destination, according to Uber’s Chief Product Officer Jeff Holden.
Bloomberg News reported Thursday that Uber lost $1.2 billion in the first six months of 2016, despite Uber Technologies Inc.’s claims that its U.S. business became profitable this year.
Silicon Valley has been suffering a tech IPO drought, but the dam may have broken after data software company Talend, Inc. jumped 42 percent on its first day of trading. Talend raised $94.5 million in its July 29 initial public
The people facing off against police on highways in Atlanta and Oakland may never have had any kind of negative experience with police — indeed, they share an implicit trust that the police will let them protest, even illegally — and yet they are forging a new political identity that can create its own reality.
Human traffickers are finding increasingly creative ways of shuttling Central American migrants through Mexico to the U.S. border and that includes hiring Uber-registered drivers.
India’s first licensed female taxi driver, and the first woman to drive an Uber in India, was found dead and hanging from the ceiling of her home on Monday.
President Barack Obama will appear at Stanford University in Silicon Valley on Friday to be keynote speaker at the 2016 Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES), which will highlight his commitment to building bridges to Muslim-majority countries around the world. Obama has
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is taking on the companies that make up the “gig economy” — though they provide the jobs, and services, that are increasingly popular among the young, “progressive” Americans who are the core of Warren’s support.
Bristling with “a variety of sensors including radars, laser scanners, and high resolution cameras,” Uber’s first self-driving car is hitting the streets of Pittsburgh in the coming weeks, according to a blog post from the ride-sharing company.
In a setback for Uber’s expansion prospects in China, Apple has confirmed that it will be investing $1 billion in the Chinese ride-sharing service Didi Chuxing.
A new study from TimeTrade reveals that millennial shoppers’ rising expectation for “on-demand” products and services is undermining online shopping and driving more traffic to physical stores.
Voters in Austin, Texas, decisively rejected a proposal by Uber and Lyft to relax regulations on their companies. They have now responded that they are “pausing” operations there.
The big push for self-driving cars is well and truly under way, as engineers assure us the technology is rapidly becoming practical. Bloomberg Technology reports that a new coalition to advocate self-driving cars includes Google, Ford Motor Company, Uber, Lyft, and Volvo.
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick announced this week that the company had settled class-action lawsuits in California and Massachusetts for up to $100 million memorialize the company’s right to classify drivers as independent contractors, rather than employees.
With the success of Uber — and the prevalence of people using the ride-sharing company to get around — it was only natural that Hollywood would get in on the action.
With the explosive growth of the “sharing economy,” entrepreneurial start-ups are mining businesses opportunities within the expanding “ethospheres” created Airbnb and Uber.
Marin County Democrat Assemblyman Marc Levine is moving forward legislation aimed at unionizing models and having the Labor Commission regulate their bodies.
An Uber driver surprised several unsuspecting passengers in Los Angeles when instead of “Ming” in a Toyota Prius C, they were greeted by Batman in a Lamborghini.
On Friday, Uber launched UberPassport, a first-of-its-kind cross-border transportation service that will take passengers on a one-way trip from San Diego as far east as Mexicali, which is the capital city of the Mexican state of Baja California, and also to Tijuana.
Alleged gunman Jason Brian Dalton blames the February 20 Kalamaazoo shooting spree on an Uber smartphone app for drivers, which he says took control of him like “artificial intelligence that can tap into your body.”
Kalamazoo law enforcement officials are confirming that alleged Kalamazoo gunman Jason Brian Dalton’s gun was “registered” and owned “legally.”
When 45-year-old Jason Brian Dalton allegedly carried out a Saturday night shooting spree that left six dead and numerous others wounded, he provided yet another demonstration of the impotency of gun-free zones and gun-free policies.
On Sunday Breitbart News reported that Kalamazoo gunman Jason Brian Dalton was an Uber driver who had “passed a background check” to work with the company. Later that same say, the Daily Mail revealed that Dalton was actually on duty when the shootings that left six dead occurred. It appears Dalton allegedly began shooting innocents in between fares around 6 p.m. Saturday night.
The alleged Kalamazoo gunman who shot and killed six people in separate attacks on Saturday night was an Uber driver who “passed a background check” to work for the company.
Yelp! stock became the latest Silicon Valley darling in the week before Valentine’s Day to tank by double-digits, as big investors retaliated for the 50 percent stock drop since December by forcing the company’s CFO to resign.
Having reached a compromise with its drivers, ride-hailing company Lyft has averted a class action lawsuit and avoided driver classification changes which would drastically affect their business model.
