Uber to suspend services in Macau due to regulatory hurdles
(Reuters) — Uber will suspend its services in Macau from July 22 as it has not been able to unlock the full benefits of ride sharing in the gambling hub, in another blow to the firm that is fighting...
View ArticleUber reportedly targets HPE’s Meg Whitman in hunt for new CEO
In a bid to fill its leadership vacuum, ride-sharing giant Uber has been searching for a new CEO. And among its candidates is reportedly Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) CEO Meg Whitman. According to...
View Article‘Uber’s CEO will not be Meg Whitman’, says Meg Whitman
With rumors circulating that Meg Whitman was being lined up as a possible replacement for Travis Kalanick at Uber, the Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) CEO has taken to Twitter (where else?) to reveal...
View ArticleSimcoach Games creates training games that can lead to new careers
Simcoach Games makes training games that show people how to do certain kinds of jobs, and those games can sometimes lead people to adopt new careers. That ability to change lives is why CEO Jessica...
View ArticleUber’s internal politics are an even bigger disaster than you thought
Internal bickering among Uber board members was so bad that it sent HP CEO Meg Whitman running for the hills and appears to have stymied the company’s attempts to find a replacement for disgraced...
View ArticleUber’s next CEO needs their own ‘Team of Rivals’
GUEST: Uber has weathered sexual harassment allegations, accusations of strikebreaking, and a failed expansion to China. But with Travis Kalanick out as CEO, the company faces a new challenge: a power...
View ArticleCarnegie Mellon’s ETC is like the Disneyland of video game schools
Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center became famous in part because of The Last Lecture. Computer scientist Randy Pausch and Donald Marinelli, a professor of drama, started the...
View ArticleSoftbank is ‘interested’ in an Uber or Lyft investment
(Reuters) — SoftBank Group Corp, a prolific investor in global technology startups, reported a sharp rise in quarterly profits and said it would be interested in parking funds in ride-hailing firms...
View ArticleUber investor Benchmark sues Travis Kalanick for fraud
(Reuters) — Venture capital firm Benchmark Capital is suing former Uber Chief Executive Officer Travis Kalanick to force him off the board of the ride-services company and rescind his ability to fill...
View ArticleHow the global e-taxi landgrab is playing out between Uber, Didi, and others
ANALYSIS: The global e-taxi battle took another interesting turn this week when Didi Chuxing — by far the largest ride-hailing company in China — invested in Careem, an Uber rival that’s popular in...
View ArticleUber’s boardroom has gone full reality TV
ANALYSIS: Two months ago, when Uber was struggling to resolve one of the worst scandals to ever shake a Silicon Valley giant, it seemed as if the crisis had reached its climax. It might be a rough road...
View ArticleBenchmark pens open letter to win over Uber employees
Upping the stakes in an already epic round of backbiting on Uber’s board, Benchmark today sent an open letter to Uber employees explaining why it decided to sue founder Travis Kalanick. The influential...
View ArticleFTC: Uber ‘failed consumers’ and faces 20 years of privacy audits
Uber settled FTC allegations that it failed to protect users and driver data from access by company employees and outside hackers, despite its pledges to do so. As part of the settlement, Uber will...
View ArticleFormer Uber CEO Kalanick calls Benchmark Capital lawsuit a ‘public and...
(Reuters) — The ousted chief executive of Uber called a lawsuit filed against him by one of the company’s top investors a “public and personal attack” without merit, according to court documents filed...
View ArticleUber has reportedly been sued at least 433 times in 2017
Just in case the incoming CEO of Uber won’t have enough messes to clean up, here’s one more legal headache to add to the list. Or rather, 433. According to a story by Courthouse News Service, the...
View ArticleUber is still burning cash at a rate of $2 billion a year
ANALYSIS: The good news in Uber’s second-quarter financials: Revenue totaled $1.75 billion, more than double the figure from a year ago and up 17 percent from the first quarter. The bad: A $645 million...
View ArticleUber to donate $1.2 million to Girls Who Code as tech industry reels from...
Uber has announced a partnership with Girls Who Code, the not-for-profit organization that’s setting out to “close the gender gap” in technology. As part of the three-year agreement, Uber will mete out...
View ArticleUber board picks Expedia’s Dara Khosrowshahi as new CEO
(Reuters) — Uber Technologies Inc on Sunday chose Dara Khosrowshahi, the chief executive of travel company Expedia Inc, as its chief executive, according to two sources with knowledge of the matter,...
View ArticleEven a new Uber CEO may be too late to save Silicon Valley’s favorite...
ANALYSIS: Despite the warm response to news that Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi has been selected to lead Uber, the odds of him being successful remain long. His list of challenges appears to be...
View ArticleUber will stop tracking riders for up to 5 minutes after a trip
(Reuters) — Uber Technologies Inc is pulling a heavily criticized feature from its app that allowed it to track riders for up to five minutes after a trip, its security chief told Reuters, as the...
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