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Three major players are breaking away from the competition in the food delivery service market. Uber Eats, GrubHub, and DoorDash are dominating the emerging industry in a similar fashion to Facebook, Google, and Twitter have dominated social media.

An Uber driver has pleaded guilty to kidnapping and groping a sleeping passenger and then ditching her on the side of a road. He then allegedly charged her over $1,000 for a trip she didn’t take.

Uber is reportedly “not criminally liable” for a self-driving car crash in 2018, which killed a pedestrian after the car’s transgender felon “back-up driver” was watching a television show on a phone instead of paying attention to the road.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), the self-described Democratic Socialist who sponsored the “Green New Deal” legislation in the House, reportedly spent more than $29,000 on gas-guzzling rideshare services.

At least 1,545 cases of injuries and deaths from electric scooters were recorded in the United States in 2018.

Starbucks has moved into delivery, partnering with Uber Eats to deliver coffee across the United States and worldwide.

Mohammed Awais has been handed a short jail term after a “disgusting” attack in which he kidnapped, raped, and robbed a young woman who mistook him for an Uber driver.

In court on Monday, an Uber driver in Michigan pleaded guilty to murdering six strangers in between picking up paying passengers.

During a segment that aired on “CNN Newsroom” on Tuesday, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in a decade that he envisioned a scenario where people will not own a car. Khosrowshahi was asked about what that world would look like in

Actress Tara Strong, a prominent activist for the Democratic Party, posted a video of herself along with fellow actress Rena Sofer harassing a conservative immigrant Uber driver, before deleting the tweet.

An Uber driver has been accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a female customer before dumping her on the side of the road. According to NBC Connecticut, 24-year-old New York Uber driver Harbir Parmar allegedly “picked up a woman in

A recent article published by the New Yorker asks the question many have asked about Silicon Valley’s race to develop self-driving cars: “Did Uber Steal Google’s Intellectual Property?”

The New York Times recently published an article titled “Silicon Valley’s Saudi Arabia Problem,” which investigates tech companies’ willingness to ignore human rights violations by major Saudi investors.

As part of its pledge to invest $10 million in “sustainable mobility,” ride-sharing app Uber plans to lobby for road tolling — used to alleviate trafic in some cities outside of the U.S. — in the city of Seattle.

Half of Uber drivers earn less than $10 an hour after paying vehicle-related expenses, according to a report.

Uber is set to pay a $148 million settlement over the 2016 data breach which affected the company, its drivers, and customers.

Antitrust regulators in Singapore fined both Uber and Singapore ride-hailing app Grab $9.5 million over a merger of the two companies that resulted in 10 to 15 percent fare increases.

Uber will ban passengers in Australia and New Zealand for six months if they receive a rating of four stars or lower, according to a report.

Kenyan police arrested a Chinese motorcycle dealer operating in the country this week after an employee recorded the man berating his native Kenyan employees, calling them “monkey people” and referring to Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta as a “monkey.”

Uber suspended driver Robert Westlake after he allegedly used a gun in self-defense in Polk County, Florida, earlier in the week.

Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” host Tucker Carlson explained how corporate America was using the social welfare safety net to subsidize at taxpayer expense its employees without having to pay a higher wage. According to Fox News

An enraged man swerved toward an Uber, then exited his truck and came at the Uber driver, only to be shot and killed.

This week, ride-sharing company Lyft announced their plan to help Americans get to the polls in November.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and executives from massive tech conglomerates have teamed up to fight President Trump’s upcoming tariffs on Chinese imports.

A new whistleblower alleges Telsa failed t0 disclose unauthorized spying activities on its employees’ electronic devices by a notorious team of former Uber security agents, or to acknowledge theft of materials from the company’s factory.

Uber’s self-driving car unit is eating into the bottom line of the technology giant, accounting for up to one-third of its quarterly losses.

Engineers at the University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin) partnered with the United States Army Research Labs to help Uber get its proposed flying taxis off the ground by 2023.

Timothy Hochstedler, an Amish man in Michigan, is giving modern ride services in St. Joseph County a touch of 1693.

Uber has been hit with a $650 million class action lawsuit from London’s “black cab” drivers, who claim the company has acted “unlawfully.”

Silicon Valley is hitting back against proposed tariffs on Chinese electric bikes and scooters, according to new reports.

Ride-sharing company Uber has shut down one of its more ambitious research projects, a self-driving truck program.

Uber drivers are making false vomit complaints against their customers in order to charge them up to $150 on top of their bill.

Matthew Handy and Adria Barrington discovered it’s not always easy to a black conservative Trump supporter in Washington, DC.

Uber Technologies Inc. is firing employees of its self-driver car unit after the peer-to-peer ridesharing giant suspended autonomous vehicle operations in the city. 

Uber’s Chief People Officer Liane Hornsey has resigned from the company via email following an investigation into her handling of racial discrimination allegations.

Lime, an electric scooter company aimed at adults, has received $335 million in investments from Google and Uber, and the ride-sharing giant will the scooter’s rental into its app.