Slashdot Items Tagged "uber"

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Friday March 15, 2024 @04:26PM Lyft and Uber To Cease Operations In Minneapolis After New Minimum Wage Law
Thursday February 08, 2024 @05:45PM Uber Records First Annual Profit
Tuesday January 16, 2024 @05:32PM Uber Shutting Down Alcohol Delivery Service Drizly
Thursday August 03, 2023 @05:09PM Uber CEO Stunned By $52 Bill For Reporter's 2.9 Mile NYC Uber Ride
Thursday June 15, 2023 @05:09PM Video Ads Are Coming To All Your Uber Apps
Wednesday May 24, 2023 @04:45PM Uber Teams Up With Waymo To Add Robotaxis To Its App
Friday May 05, 2023 @09:54AM Ex-Uber Security Chief Gets Probation for Concealing 2016 Data Breach
Wednesday May 03, 2023 @05:29PM Stripe, a Longtime Partner of Lyft, Signs a Big Deal With Uber
Friday April 21, 2023 @04:28PM Lyft Is Reportedly Slashing 1,200 Jobs, Or 30% of Its Workforce
Tuesday March 14, 2023 @12:36AM US Court Rules Uber and Lyft Workers Are Contractors
Thursday January 26, 2023 @05:04PM New York City Will Require Uber and Lyft To Go 100 Percent Electric by 2030
Thursday December 15, 2022 @01:53PM Uber Eats Launches Robot Delivery Service in Miami
Wednesday November 30, 2022 @06:32AM Uber Eats Restaurant Data Extraction
Tuesday November 01, 2022 @01:16PM Uber Tests Push Notification Ads, a Feature Literally No One Wants
Sunday October 30, 2022 @06:56PM New Zealand Uber Drivers Win Landmark Case Declaring Them Employees
Friday October 28, 2022 @05:17PM Teleport Creators Raise $9 Million To Build Decentralized Uber Rival On Solana
Tuesday October 25, 2022 @05:46PM New Zealand Uber Drivers Win Landmark Case Declaring Them Employees
Wednesday October 19, 2022 @02:29PM Uber Now Delivers Cannabis in Canada, Says It's First Time a Major Third-Party Platform Is Able To Do So
Wednesday October 19, 2022 @12:48PM Uber Launches Advertising Arm To Tap Lucrative Revenue Stream
Wednesday October 05, 2022 @05:27PM Former Uber Exec Joe Sullivan Found Guilty of Concealing 2016 Data Breach
Monday September 19, 2022 @03:25PM Uber Says Lapsus$-Linked Hacker Responsible For Breach
Friday September 16, 2022 @03:36PM Uber Says 'No Evidence' User Accounts Were Compromised in Hack
Friday September 16, 2022 @05:00AM Uber Investigating Breach of Its Computer Systems
Monday September 12, 2022 @05:57PM Uber Eats Will Begin Using Nuro Delivery Robots
Wednesday September 07, 2022 @10:12AM As Ex-Uber Executive Heads To Trial, the Security Community Reels
Monday August 01, 2022 @04:04PM Microsoft Outlook Is Crashing When Reading Uber Receipt Emails
Tuesday June 07, 2022 @05:38PM Waymo Is Teaming Up With Uber On Autonomous Trucking
Monday May 16, 2022 @01:28PM Uber Launches Robot Food Delivery in California
Monday May 09, 2022 @12:32PM Uber CEO Tells Staff Company Will Cut Down on Costs, Treat Hiring as a 'Privilege'
Wednesday April 06, 2022 @05:11PM Uber To Create Travel 'Superapp' By Adding Planes, Trains and Rental Cars
Thursday March 24, 2022 @11:44AM Uber Reaches Deal To List All New York City Taxis on Its App
Wednesday December 01, 2021 @02:07PM Delivery, Ride-Hailing Firms Fight EU Plan for Gig Workers
Wednesday November 10, 2021 @03:14PM Justice Department Sues Uber Over Charging Wait-Time Fees for Disabled People
Wednesday September 15, 2021 @09:15AM Uber's Chief Technical Officer To Step Down
Monday September 13, 2021 @05:11PM Uber Drivers Are Employees, Not Contractors, Says Dutch Court
Monday August 09, 2021 @04:56PM Uber Asked Contractor To Allow Video Surveillance In Employee Homes, Bedrooms
Tuesday August 03, 2021 @10:09AM Uber Requires Nondisclosure Agreement Before Helping CarjackedDriver
Friday July 09, 2021 @05:27PM Uber and Lyft Can't Find Drivers Because Gig Work Sucks
Monday July 05, 2021 @04:13PM Uber, Lyft Sweeten Job Perks Amid Driver Shortage, Lofty Fares
Tuesday June 29, 2021 @07:03PM Uber Will Ask Employees To Return To Work 50% of the Time
Wednesday June 23, 2021 @02:48PM Uber Eats Adds Pricing Disclaimer Requested by Attorneys General
Thursday June 10, 2021 @02:55PM Uber Offers To Pay For Drivers' Health Insurance, and Then Yanks it Away
Thursday May 06, 2021 @04:58PM Opposing PRO Act, Uber and Other Gig Companies Spend Over $1 Million Lobbying
Wednesday April 07, 2021 @01:24PM Uber, Lyft Tout US Ride-Hail Driver Pay, Incentives Amid Demand Uptick
Tuesday April 06, 2021 @01:46PM Uber May Stop Letting Drivers See Destinations and Name Prices
Friday April 02, 2021 @07:28PM Uber Ordered To Pay $1.1 Million To Blind Passenger Who Was Denied Rides 14 Times
Tuesday March 16, 2021 @06:20PM In First, Uber Agrees To Classify British Drives As 'Workers'
Thursday March 11, 2021 @07:09PM Uber and Lyft Create a Shared Database of Drivers Banned For Assault
Monday February 15, 2021 @11:04AM Uber Proposes California-style Gig Work Reforms in Europe
Tuesday February 02, 2021 @10:22AM Uber Buying Booze Delivery Company Drizly For $1.1 Billion
Wednesday January 20, 2021 @02:41AM President Trump Pardons Anthony Levandowski, Ex-Uber Engineer Sentenced To Prison For Stealing Trade Secrets From Google
Monday January 04, 2021 @06:32PM Uber Wasted $100 Million On Useless Digital Ad Campaigns
Friday January 01, 2021 @09:54PM Uber Officially Bans Drivers From Carrying Firearms, But Company's Business Model Prevents Enforcement
Tuesday December 15, 2020 @10:50AM California Fines Uber $59 Million for Stonewalling Questions About Sexual Assaults
Monday December 07, 2020 @05:34PM Uber Sells Its Self-Driving Unit To Aurora
Wednesday December 02, 2020 @02:13PM Uber in Talks To Sell Air Taxi Business To Joby
Wednesday November 25, 2020 @01:19PM SEC Proposes Rules for Giving Gig Workers Equity
Friday November 13, 2020 @10:04PM Uber In Talks To Sell ATG Self-Driving Unit To Aurora
Tuesday November 10, 2020 @07:45PM Uber Will Now Let Users Book Rides 30 Days In Advance and Pick a Favorite Driver
Wednesday November 04, 2020 @10:00AM Uber, Lyft Prevail To Keep California Workers Independent
Wednesday October 28, 2020 @12:52PM Inside Uber and DoorDash's Push To Win the Most Expensive Ballot Race in California History
Friday October 23, 2020 @04:14PM Uber and Lyft Need To Make Drivers Employees, Appeals Court Rules
Thursday October 22, 2020 @07:45PM Drivers Sue Uber Over Pressure To Support Prop 22
Friday October 16, 2020 @12:52PM Uber on the Hunt For Strategic Alternatives for Uber Elevate
Friday October 16, 2020 @12:09PM Uber is Hiring Hundreds of Engineers in India To Cut Costs
Wednesday October 07, 2020 @01:57PM 'I'm a Software Engineer at Uber and I'm Voting Against Prop 22'
Wednesday September 30, 2020 @05:58PM Seattle Approves Minimum Wage For Uber and Lyft Drivers
Tuesday September 29, 2020 @04:58PM How Uber Wasted $2.5 Billion on Self-Driving Cars
Monday September 28, 2020 @04:41PM Uber Can Continue Operating In London After Winning Court Appeal
Monday September 21, 2020 @04:04PM Gig Economy Company Launches Uber, But For Evicting People
Wednesday September 16, 2020 @02:36PM Safety Driver in Fatal Arizona Uber Self-Driving Car Crash Charged With Homicide
Tuesday September 08, 2020 @03:24PM Lossmaking Giant Uber, Hoping To Stay Around For Decades, Says It is Aiming For 100% Zero-Emission Transport by 2040
Thursday August 20, 2020 @04:57PM Former Uber Exec Charged With Paying 'Hush Money' To Conceal Massive Breach
Thursday August 20, 2020 @04:44PM Last-Minute California Ruling Means Uber and Lyft Won't Shut Down Today
Wednesday August 19, 2020 @04:47PM Uber CEO On the Flight In California: 'We Can't Go Out and Hire 50,000 People Overnight'
Tuesday August 18, 2020 @11:42AM Uber and Lyft Consider Franchise-Like Model in California
Thursday August 13, 2020 @11:56AM Lyft Joins Uber in Threatening To Pull Out of California Over Driver Status
Wednesday August 12, 2020 @12:03PM Uber CEO Says Its Service Will Probably Shut Down Temporarily in California if It's Forced To Classify Drivers as Employees
Monday August 10, 2020 @05:13PM California Judge Orders Uber and Lyft To Classify Drivers As Employees
Monday August 10, 2020 @10:02AM Uber CEO Calls For 'Benefits Funds' for Gig Workers
Tuesday August 04, 2020 @07:50PM Anthony Levandowski Sentenced To 18 Months In Prison, As New $4 Billion Lawsuit Against Uber Is Filed
Monday July 20, 2020 @08:37PM Uber Drivers To Launch Legal Bid To Uncover App's Algorithm
Friday July 17, 2020 @01:11PM Uber Aims To Become a More 'Actively Anti-Racist' Company
Monday July 06, 2020 @09:37AM Uber Agrees To Buy Food-Delivery Service Postmates for $2.65 Billion in Stock
Tuesday June 30, 2020 @02:09PM Uber's New Strategy: Buy Unprofitable Companies, ???, Profit
Saturday June 27, 2020 @07:13PM Are Uber Drivers Employees? Uber Faces Two Big Court Challenges
Wednesday June 17, 2020 @11:31AM Uber To Sell Software, Starting With Four-Van Transit Service
Friday June 05, 2020 @11:29AM Uber's Self-driving AI Predicts the Trajectories of Pedestrians, Vehicles, and Cyclists
Friday May 29, 2020 @04:24AM Uber Destroys Thousands of Bikes and Scooters
Monday May 18, 2020 @12:33PM SoftBank Vision Fund Posts $17.7 Billion Loss on WeWork, Uber
Monday May 18, 2020 @11:40AM Uber Cuts 3,000 More Jobs, Shuts 45 Offices in Coronavirus Crunch
Wednesday May 13, 2020 @03:07PM Uber Will Require All Drivers and Riders To Wear Masks Starting Monday
Tuesday May 12, 2020 @04:33PM Uber Makes Takeover Approach To Grubhub
Friday May 08, 2020 @04:23PM Uber Loses $2.9 Billion, Offloads Bike and Scooter Business
Friday May 08, 2020 @01:26PM The Results Are In for the Sharing Economy. They Are Ugly.
Wednesday May 06, 2020 @10:01AM Uber is Laying Off 3,700 as Rides Plummet Due To COVID-19
Tuesday May 05, 2020 @02:09PM Uber and Lyft Face Worker Misclassification Lawsuit From CA Attorney General and City Attorneys
Thursday April 30, 2020 @04:14AM Lyft To Lay Off 17 Percent of Staff As Uber Weighs Even Bigger Layoffs
Monday April 20, 2020 @06:04PM Uber Argues 'Fraud' Absolves It From Paying Star Engineer's $179 Million Fine
Friday April 17, 2020 @12:28PM Uber Withdraws Forecast and Will Write Down About $2 Billion
Monday April 06, 2020 @12:40PM Uber Connects Out-of-Work U.S. Ride-Hail Drivers To Delivery, Production Jobs
Friday March 27, 2020 @10:01AM 'These People Are Evil': Drivers Speak Out Against Uber's New Coronavirus Sick Leave Fund
Friday March 20, 2020 @04:36PM Ex-Uber Engineer Pleads Guilty To Stealing Trade Secrets From Google
Tuesday March 17, 2020 @08:15AM Uber Suspends Pooled Rides in US, Canada To Limit Coronavirus Spread
Tuesday March 10, 2020 @12:42PM Uber Resumes Autonomous Car Testing in San Francisco
Friday March 06, 2020 @07:06PM Uber and Lyft Drivers Weigh Risk of Safety Against Paycheck
Thursday March 05, 2020 @04:53PM Engineer At the Center of Waymo/Uber Legal Battle Declares Bankruptcy
Wednesday March 04, 2020 @04:00PM Uber Drivers' Self-Employed Status 'Fictitious', France Rules
Wednesday February 26, 2020 @06:23AM Uber and Lyft Generate 70 Percent More Pollution Than Trips They Displace, Study Finds
Wednesday February 05, 2020 @05:28PM Uber Self-Driving Cars Allowed Back On California Roads
Tuesday January 21, 2020 @10:38AM Uber Tests a Feature That Lets Some California Drivers Set Fares
Friday January 10, 2020 @01:10PM Uber Stops Upfront Ride Pricing in Response To California Worker Law
Monday December 30, 2019 @09:22PM Uber, Postmates Sue California to Block Gig-Worker Law
Tuesday December 24, 2019 @04:30PM Travis Kalanick Severs All Ties With Uber, Departing Board and Selling All His Shares
Monday December 23, 2019 @10:00PM Uber Joins Forces With Joby Aviation To Launch An Air Taxi Service By 2023
Monday December 23, 2019 @08:15PM Judge Strikes Down NYC Law Limiting Uber, Lyft Driver Cruising Time
Wednesday December 18, 2019 @10:00PM Uber Settles Federal Investigation Into Workplace Culture
Thursday November 28, 2019 @07:32PM Some Uber Drivers Use Bogus Identities and Shared Accounts
Monday November 25, 2019 @10:44AM Uber Loses License To Operate in London, One of Its Biggest Markets
Friday November 22, 2019 @10:31PM What Caused Uber's Fatal 2018 Crash? NTSB Reveals Its Findings
Thursday November 21, 2019 @05:54AM Uber Embraces Videotaping Rides, Raising Privacy Concerns
Wednesday November 20, 2019 @05:46PM Uber To Allow Audio Recording of Rides, Aiming To Launch Feature In US
Thursday November 14, 2019 @07:17PM Uber Hit With $650 Million Employment Tax Bill In New Jersey
Monday November 11, 2019 @10:01AM Uber CEO Calls Saudi Murder of Khashoggi 'a Mistake', Scrambles To Backtrack
Wednesday November 06, 2019 @10:09AM SoftBank Reveals $6.5 Billion Loss From Uber, WeWork Turmoil
Wednesday November 06, 2019 @01:32AM Uber Test Vehicles Involved In 37 Crashes Before Fatal Self-Driving Incident
Monday November 04, 2019 @02:25PM L.A. Suspends Uber's Permit To Rent Out Electric Scooters and Bikes
Thursday October 31, 2019 @06:50PM Uber Allegedly Paid $100K Ransom and Had Hackers Sign NDAs After Data Breach
Tuesday October 29, 2019 @11:29AM Nearly Two-Thirds of Uber Customers Don't Tip Their Drivers, Study Says
Monday October 14, 2019 @01:45PM Uber Lays Off Another 350 Employees Across Eats, Self-driving and Other Departments
Thursday October 03, 2019 @11:22AM Uber Launches App Aimed at Connecting Workers With Businesses
Friday September 27, 2019 @10:13AM SoftBank Bet Big on Disruptive Companies. Many Have Not Paid Off.
Thursday September 26, 2019 @05:06PM Uber Stopped Its Own Investigators From Reporting Crimes To the Police
Friday September 20, 2019 @03:25PM Uber Sues New York City Over 'Cruising Cap' Rule
Wednesday September 18, 2019 @03:46PM California Governor Signs Labor Law, Setting Up Bitter Gig Economy Fight
Thursday September 12, 2019 @10:10AM Drivers? Never Heard of Them, Says Uber
Wednesday September 11, 2019 @12:07PM California Bill Makes App-Based Companies Treat Workers as Employees
Tuesday September 10, 2019 @03:27PM Uber Lays Off 435 People Across Engineering and Product Teams
Thursday August 29, 2019 @03:52PM Uber CEO Sees Path To Profitability Despite Bumps in the Road
Thursday August 29, 2019 @01:42PM Uber, Lyft Propose $21/Hour Minimum Wage For Drivers After Wave Of Protests
Tuesday August 27, 2019 @02:46PM Former Google and Uber Engineer Indicted For Trade Secret Theft;
Tuesday August 27, 2019 @12:04PM Uber And Lyft Take A Lot More From Drivers Than They Say
Friday August 16, 2019 @04:39PM Uber, Lyft Finally Admit They're Making Traffic Congestion Worse In Cities
Monday August 12, 2019 @03:26PM Uber Imposes Engineer Hiring Freeze as Losses Mount
Thursday August 08, 2019 @05:34PM Uber Posts $5.2 Billion Loss and Slowest Ever Growth Rate
Tuesday July 30, 2019 @01:29AM Uber Lays Off 400 People On Its Marketing Team
Friday July 19, 2019 @06:42PM A California Bill Could Destroy Uber's Unsustainable Business Model
Thursday July 18, 2019 @08:34AM Uber Glitch Charges Passengers 100 Times the Advertised Price, Resulting in Crosstown Fares in the Thousands of Dollars
Monday June 10, 2019 @05:18PM Google Maps Will Tell You If Your Taxi Driver Is Veering Off Course To Rack Up a Higher Fare
Tuesday June 04, 2019 @08:40PM Retired Georgia Tech Professor Is Suing Uber, Lyft For Patent Infringement
Wednesday May 29, 2019 @04:37PM Uber Will Start Deactivating Riders With Low Ratings
Friday May 24, 2019 @01:09PM Uber and Lyft's Rise Tanked Wheelchair Access To Taxis
Friday May 10, 2019 @08:56PM Uber and Lyft May Be Making Traffic Even Worse
Friday May 10, 2019 @01:30PM Uber Goes Public
Thursday May 09, 2019 @08:04PM San Francisco Proposes 'IPO Tax' On Eve of Uber Offering
Sunday April 28, 2019 @12:01PM Uber Admits It Wants To Take Riders Away From Public Transit
Thursday April 25, 2019 @12:58PM Uber Drivers Plan Strike To Kick Off 2019's Most-Hyped IPO
Friday April 12, 2019 @03:18PM Uber Reveals One of Its Big Vulnerabilities
Monday March 18, 2019 @05:10PM Uber Used Secret Spyware To Try To Crush Australian Startup GoCatch
Sunday March 17, 2019 @03:59PM Are We Getting Close To Flying Taxis?
Tuesday March 05, 2019 @11:16PM Arizona Prosecutor Says Uber Not Criminally Liable In Fatal Self-Driving Crash
Thursday February 28, 2019 @11:21AM Some Uber, Lyft Drivers To Get Stock in IPOs
Monday January 21, 2019 @02:28PM Uber is Exploring Autonomous Bikes and Scooters
Thursday December 20, 2018 @06:44PM Uber Resumes Testing Self-Driving Cars Nine Months After Deadly Crash
Tuesday December 18, 2018 @06:42PM Ex-Uber Engineer Claims a Self-Driving Car Drove Him Coast-To-Coast
Friday December 07, 2018 @10:14PM 12,000 Uber Drivers Claim Uber Is Now Failing To Pay Arbitration Fees
Tuesday December 04, 2018 @06:34PM NYC Votes To Set Minimum Pay For Uber, Lyft Drivers
Thursday November 29, 2018 @03:30PM At an All-Hands Meeting, Uber CEO Said The Company Deserves Some Fault After Its Self-Driving Car Killed a Pedestrian
Tuesday November 27, 2018 @07:31PM Uber Fined Nearly $1.2 Million By Dutch, UK Over 2016 Data Breach
Tuesday November 27, 2018 @01:41PM Uber has Cracked Two Classic '80s Video Games by Giving an AI Algorithm a New Type of Memory
Saturday November 24, 2018 @02:28PM What's the Next Big Thing in Tech? It's Up To Us
Thursday November 22, 2018 @08:22PM High Score, Low Pay: Why the Gig Economy Loves Gamification
Tuesday November 20, 2018 @03:43PM 'Google, Apple, and Uber Should Be Forced To Share Their Mapping Data'
Thursday November 15, 2018 @06:59PM Uber Joins Linux Foundation Cementing Commitment To Open Source Tools
Friday November 02, 2018 @06:07PM Uber Wants To Resume Self-Driving Car Tests On Public Roads
Tuesday October 23, 2018 @06:46PM Uber Planning Fleet of Food Delivery Drones 'As Soon As 2021'
Tuesday October 09, 2018 @04:37PM Uber CEO: We're Going After Groceries Next
Monday October 08, 2018 @05:48PM Limo Firm To Judge: Tell Us Whether Uber Drivers Are Employees
Tuesday October 02, 2018 @07:19PM Half of US Uber Drivers Make Less Than $10 An Hour After Vehicle Expenses, Study Says
Monday October 01, 2018 @04:48PM Vigilante Engineer Stops Waymo From Patenting Key Lidar Technology
Wednesday September 26, 2018 @08:22PM Uber Settles Data Breach Investigation For $148 Million
Wednesday September 26, 2018 @11:17AM Uber Wins Key Ruling In Its Fight Against Treating Drivers As Employees
Monday September 24, 2018 @07:37PM Uber Drivers and Other Gig Economy Workers Are Earning Half What They Did Five Years Ago
Thursday September 13, 2018 @06:31PM Limo Firm To Uber: You Misclassify Your Drivers As Contractors, Which Is Unfair
Wednesday September 05, 2018 @05:55PM Uber Will Turn Your Smartphone Into An Automatic Crash Detector
Wednesday September 05, 2018 @04:10PM Uber To Ban Riders With Four-Star or Lower Ratings in Australia and New Zealand
Friday August 24, 2018 @03:35PM Japan Wants To Bring Flying Cars To Its Skies
Sunday August 19, 2018 @12:33AM Uber Loses $900 Million In Second Quarter; Urged By Investors To Sell Off Self-Driving Division
Monday July 30, 2018 @05:02PM Uber's Self-Driving Trucks Division Is Dead
Friday July 27, 2018 @05:32PM New York City May Cap the Number of Uber, Lyft Vehicles On Its Streets
Friday July 27, 2018 @10:24AM A New Study Says Services Like UberPool Are Making Traffic Worse
Tuesday July 24, 2018 @04:36PM Uber Self-Driving Cars Back On Public Roads, But In Manual Mode
Saturday July 21, 2018 @09:24PM Uber Bans Driver Who Secretly Livestreamed Hundreds of Passengers
Friday July 20, 2018 @05:05PM Uber Drivers 'Employees' For Unemployment Purposes, New York Labor Board Says
Monday July 16, 2018 @04:33PM Uber Faces Federal Investigation Over Alleged Gender Discrimination
Monday July 09, 2018 @05:47PM Uber Adds Electric Scooters To Its App
Tuesday July 03, 2018 @04:37PM Exec Accused of Stealing Waymo's Trade Secrets Starts New Self-Driving Company
Friday June 29, 2018 @11:23AM Uber Could Resume Testing of Its Self-Driving Vehicles this Summer
Tuesday June 26, 2018 @05:58PM Uber Granted Short-Term License To Operate In London
Friday June 22, 2018 @03:14PM Uber Driver Was Streaming Hulu Just Before Fatal Self-Driving Car Crash, Says Police