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Here's How Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Is Defending His Tactics To Crush Lyft
Details emerged today about Uber's plan, code-named "Operation Slog," to recruit drivers away from rival car transport company Lyft. Uber CEO Travis Kalanick took to Twitter to defend himself after...
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How Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Went From A Startup Failure To One Of The...
Uber cofounder and CEO Travis Kalanick, 38, is prone to trash-talking and tantrums, but his unhinged confidence and competitiveness are part of what makes him such a brilliant entrepreneur. His car...
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How Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Went From Having A Failed Startup To Owning A...
Uber is a massive company that's now valued at $18 billion, likely making its CEO Travis Kalanick a billionaire.But that wasn't always the case.Uber was the third in a series of startups Kalanick had...
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Uber Wants To Raise Another Billion And Here's Why That's Scary For Its Industry
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is getting incredibly rich — at least on paper. But he wants to get even richer. Uber is seeking an additional $1 billion investment, beyond a big infusion it received as...
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Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Is Concerned About Looking Like An 'Asshole'
Uber's CEO Travis Kalanick is one of the most polarizing figures in Silicon Valley. Uber provides a fantastic service to its users. You push a button and a car comes to pick you up. And a company like...
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How Uber's CEO Blew His Perfect 5.0 Customer Rating Score With Drivers
When you take a ride in an Uber vehicle, the first things you'll notice when you request a ride on the app are your driver's name, the make and model of your Uber ride, and your driver's rating out of...
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Uber Employees Allegedly Warned Another Journalist That Uber Could Look At...
Uber employees allegedly warned San Francisco Magazine editor Ellen Cushing while she was researching a story on CEO Travis Kalanick that the company might look at her rider logs, the magazine...
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Uber: We Won't Look At Rider Data Except For 'Legitimate Business Purposes'
Uber has posted a new privacy policy on its website that bans employees from accessing riders' trip data except "for a legitimate set of business purposes."The news comes after news broke that an Uber...
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Uber Takes Tons Of Your Private Data — But So Does Lyft
There are many reasons to distrust Uber, but its Android privacy policies might not be one of them. In a post that blew up on Hacker News, one user called attention to the breadth of information that...
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Uber Has Been Banned In Delhi After Alleged Rape
The government of India's capital territory has just banned the ride-sharing service Uber after a passenger reported that a driver raped her, according to the Deccan Chronicle.Shiv Kumar Yadav, the...
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Uber CEO Promises Change In India After Alleged Rape Gets The Service Banned...
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has responded to reports that a 26-year-old woman in India said she was sexually assaulted by her Uber driver on Friday night.In an Uber blog post, Kalanick said:What happened...
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Uber Is An Unstoppable Force
The past few months have been a PR nightmare for Uber.In November at a dinner for "influencers," an Uber executive named Emil Michael suggested the company could theoretically dig up personal...
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Top Silicon Valley Investor Explains How Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Is Like...
Bill Gurley, an early investor in Uber and a general partner at VC firm Benchmark Capital, says Uber's CEO Travis Kalanick is most similar to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos."If I looked along a vector, he's...
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Automakers Face A Long-Term Threat From Uber And Zipcar
LONDON (Reuters) - The humble smartphone could throw a spanner in the works of the car sector's post-crisis turnaround, with the big manufacturers facing a long-term threat from apps that make it...
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Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Advises Staying At A 'Sleazy' Las Vegas Hotel...
CES — the vast consumer electronics show in Las Vegas that's going on this week — can be expensive. It's full of dinner meetings, taxis, and pricey hotels. But billionaire Uber founder Travis Kalanick...
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Uber Has A New Strategy To Win Over Europe
MUNICH/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The chief executive of controversial online ride-sharing company Uber stuck a newly conciliatory tone on Sunday, promising to create 50,000 new jobs this year across Europe...
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Travis Kalanick Says Uber Can Tackle Unemployment In Europe
Berlin (AFP) - The car-sharing start-up Uber can create as many as 50,000 jobs in Europe this year as part of a "new partnership" with European cities, its chief executive told a conference in...
View ArticleUber CEO Gave This Raw Speech About Failure In 2011
While writing "The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery," Sarah Lewis attended FailCon, a one-day conference praising failure. Started in 2009 in San Francisco, "as a...
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Uber Just Raised Another $1.6 Billion — And It's Raising $600 Million More
In December, Uber announced a $1.2 billion fundraising at a $41 billion post-money valuation, with room to spare for other strategic investors.The company was also rumored to be in talks with Goldman...
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Uber plans to build self-driving cars at a robotics facility in Pittsburgh
Uber is building an Advanced Technologies Center in Pittsburgh, Pa., in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University that will research and develop mapping and vehicle safety and autonomy technology,...
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