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.
The Uber driver who charged Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Jameis Winston with sexual harassment, has released a statement thanking the NFL for suspending the player and calling for female victims to be be “believed” when the come forward about sexual assault.
It is reported that two baseball coaches at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida have lost their jobs. The coaches, Andrew Medina and David Taylor, were the first district employees to leave as a direct result of their action or, in this case, their inaction, during the February 14, 2018, attack on the school.
Ride-sharing app Uber has been granted a license to operate in London, England, for 15 months.
Ride-sharing company Uber is appearing in court today to appeal the loss of its license to operate in London today, claiming that the company has “changed” since the initial ruling.
The safety monitor in a self-driving Uber car was streaming The Voice on Hulu just before it crashed, according to a report.
Ride-sharing company Uber reportedly increased the number of self-driving car crash simulations following a fatal accident involving one of their self-driving cars that saw one woman killed.
Billionaire CEO’s from across Silicon Valley have long been critical of President Trump’s immigration policies, now with the latest immigration debate becoming a hot topic, many are directly funding opposition to the administration.
Google Maps has removed a feature which allowed users to order an Uber ride to their location directly from the Google Maps app.
Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said the technology industry’s problems “are out of control,” before warning that no company is too big to regulate, in an article for Fox News, Tuesday.
Uber is attempting to patent A.I. technology which would determine whether potential passengers are drunk, to “reduce undesired consequences.”
London’s Evening Standard newspaper sold favorable coverage to a number of companies, including tech giants Google and Uber, according to a report published by the watchdog group openDemocracy.
Uber has added a new button to their app that easily allows passengers to call 911 and broadcast their current location.
Boulder police officers say they helped a man on Sunday download the Uber app onto his phone, called him an Uber, and he still walked to his car and proceeded to earn a DUI right in front of them.
Uber’s Chief Product Officer, Jeff Holden, is set to leave the company according to an Uber spokesperson — joining more than a dozen other executives who have left Uber over the last year.
Ridesharing company Uber has agreed to stop forcing victims of sexual assault during Uber rides into arbitration.
