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Elon Musk and Uber CEO Travis Kalanick are joining Trump's economic advisory...
Elon Musk and Travis Kalanick, the chief executives of Tesla and Uber, are joining US President-elect Donald Trump's new economic advisory board.The two tech-transportation executives have been named...
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Uber did everything right in Pittsburgh with its self-driving cars — but is...
The arrival of a fleet of self-driving Uber vehicles in Pittsburgh earlier this year was the biggest transportation story of 2016.Just like that, Uber went from being a replacement for taxis in big...
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Uber lost $800 million in the third quarter
Uber has notched yet another quarter of staggering losses.That's according to a new story out from The Information's Amir Efrati, who reports that the ride-hailing company lost more than $800 million...
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RANKED: The biggest car stories of 2016
The year 2016 might have been the most lively and interesting I've ever experienced and I've been covering the auto industry for over a decade. From General Motors to Uber and Tesla to Donald Trump,...
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Uber is doing everything wrong with its self-driving cars in San Francisco
By rolling out a small fleet of self-driving vehicles in San Francisco without first getting a permit from the California DMV, Uber reverted to an old habit and played chicken with regulators.It lost...
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How Uber embarrassed Volvo in California
Like a sullen child who has been told that if he doesn't play by the rules, he'll have to sit out of the game, Uber has petulantly packed up its toys and left its own backyard playground of San...
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Uber to pay $20 million to FTC to settle claims that it exaggerated how much...
Uber will pay $20 million and alter various business practices in order to settle claims brought by the FTC that the ride-hailing company mislead drivers on how much they would make driving for Uber....
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'I do not accept him as my leader' — Uber CTO's explosive anti-Trump email...
Shortly after Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, the chief technology officer of Uber rattled off an explosive email meant for a small group of employees that quickly spread like wildfire...
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Uber CEO Travis Kalanick says he'll talk to Trump about the immigration 'ban'...
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, whose ties to Donald Trump have made the company a target of criticism, said on Saturday that he will talk to the US President about the recent immigration order. Noting that...
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Uber's CEO and Trump apparently had a disastrous phone call
You're either with the Trump administration or you're against it.After Uber CEO Travis Kalanick's call with President Donald Trump on Thursday and decision to quit his business-advisory council, the...
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Uber engineer responds to sexism scandal: 'This is everyone's problem'
A sexism scandal has rocked Uber for the past two days after a former engineer published a lengthy blog post about her year working at Uber.In her reflections, the former engineer, Susan Fowler, said...
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Uber investors blast company for failure to change: 'We have hit a dead end'
Uber investors Mitch and Freada Kapor want to change two things: Uber's toxic workplace, and the silence of Uber's backers when it comes to the "inexcusable behavior" of the company's leadership.A...
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Travis Kalanick is Uber's biggest asset, and now its biggest liability
Uber would not exist without Travis Kalanick. He wasn't the one to come up with the idea for it or even its first CEO. But there's no doubt that Kalanick was the one to take the company from a seed of...
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Why Uber probably never will reform itself
If there is a single quality that defines Uber, it’s that it is somewhat sociopathic by design: An antipathy toward norms is built into the car-hailing company’s business model.Algorithms determine...
View ArticleDashcam video shows Uber's CEO in heated argument with driver over prices
Uber's very bad year is continuing as more evidence of a toxic work environment, starting at the top, comes to light.A new video published by Bloomberg's Eric Newcomer shows Uber's CEO fighting with an...
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Uber CEO Travis Kalanick apologizes for treating a driver 'disrespectfully':...
In a memo to Uber employees posted to the company's blog, CEO Travis Kalanick has apologized for his behavior in a leaked video showing him fighting with an Uber driver over falling fares in...
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Uber drivers are growing angrier over price cuts
DETROIT (AP) — The face-off between Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and driver Fawzi Kamel illustrated a conflict between Uber, with its effort to grow by cutting prices to beat competitors, and drivers who...
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The Uber exec and board member who oversaw the HR department has been...
As a sexism scandal rocks Uber, its CEO Travis Kalanick has been on the defensive, holding all-hands meetings with the company and sitting down with the women in its engineering group to hear their...
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Uber's unraveling: The stunning, 2 week string of blows that has upended the...
Uber was already off to a bad start in 2017, but the year is getting worse by the day, if not the hour, for the $69 billion ride-hailing company. In January, Uber lost more than 200,000 customers in a...
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Disgruntled Uber employees are reportedly talking to recruiters and rival firms
Disgruntled Uber employees are signing up with recruitment agencies and talking to rival firms as they look to exit the company, according to the Financial Times.The apparent uptick in the number of...
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