Silicon Valley has been suffering a tech IPO drought, but the dam may have broken after data software company Talend, Inc. jumped 42 percent on its first day of trading. Talend raised $94.5 million in its July 29 initial public
The people facing off against police on highways in Atlanta and Oakland may never have had any kind of negative experience with police — indeed, they share an implicit trust that the police will let them protest, even illegally — and yet they are forging a new political identity that can create its own reality.
Human traffickers are finding increasingly creative ways of shuttling Central American migrants through Mexico to the U.S. border and that includes hiring Uber-registered drivers.
India’s first licensed female taxi driver, and the first woman to drive an Uber in India, was found dead and hanging from the ceiling of her home on Monday.
President Barack Obama will appear at Stanford University in Silicon Valley on Friday to be keynote speaker at the 2016 Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES), which will highlight his commitment to building bridges to Muslim-majority countries around the world. Obama has
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is taking on the companies that make up the “gig economy” — though they provide the jobs, and services, that are increasingly popular among the young, “progressive” Americans who are the core of Warren’s support.
Bristling with “a variety of sensors including radars, laser scanners, and high resolution cameras,” Uber’s first self-driving car is hitting the streets of Pittsburgh in the coming weeks, according to a blog post from the ride-sharing company.
In a setback for Uber’s expansion prospects in China, Apple has confirmed that it will be investing $1 billion in the Chinese ride-sharing service Didi Chuxing.
A new study from TimeTrade reveals that millennial shoppers’ rising expectation for “on-demand” products and services is undermining online shopping and driving more traffic to physical stores.
Voters in Austin, Texas, decisively rejected a proposal by Uber and Lyft to relax regulations on their companies. They have now responded that they are “pausing” operations there.
The big push for self-driving cars is well and truly under way, as engineers assure us the technology is rapidly becoming practical. Bloomberg Technology reports that a new coalition to advocate self-driving cars includes Google, Ford Motor Company, Uber, Lyft, and Volvo.
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick announced this week that the company had settled class-action lawsuits in California and Massachusetts for up to $100 million memorialize the company’s right to classify drivers as independent contractors, rather than employees.
With the success of Uber — and the prevalence of people using the ride-sharing company to get around — it was only natural that Hollywood would get in on the action.
With the explosive growth of the “sharing economy,” entrepreneurial start-ups are mining businesses opportunities within the expanding “ethospheres” created Airbnb and Uber.
Marin County Democrat Assemblyman Marc Levine is moving forward legislation aimed at unionizing models and having the Labor Commission regulate their bodies.
An Uber driver surprised several unsuspecting passengers in Los Angeles when instead of “Ming” in a Toyota Prius C, they were greeted by Batman in a Lamborghini.
On Friday, Uber launched UberPassport, a first-of-its-kind cross-border transportation service that will take passengers on a one-way trip from San Diego as far east as Mexicali, which is the capital city of the Mexican state of Baja California, and also to Tijuana.
Alleged gunman Jason Brian Dalton blames the February 20 Kalamaazoo shooting spree on an Uber smartphone app for drivers, which he says took control of him like “artificial intelligence that can tap into your body.”
Kalamazoo law enforcement officials are confirming that alleged Kalamazoo gunman Jason Brian Dalton’s gun was “registered” and owned “legally.”
When 45-year-old Jason Brian Dalton allegedly carried out a Saturday night shooting spree that left six dead and numerous others wounded, he provided yet another demonstration of the impotency of gun-free zones and gun-free policies.
On Sunday Breitbart News reported that Kalamazoo gunman Jason Brian Dalton was an Uber driver who had “passed a background check” to work with the company. Later that same say, the Daily Mail revealed that Dalton was actually on duty when the shootings that left six dead occurred. It appears Dalton allegedly began shooting innocents in between fares around 6 p.m. Saturday night.
The alleged Kalamazoo gunman who shot and killed six people in separate attacks on Saturday night was an Uber driver who “passed a background check” to work for the company.
Yelp! stock became the latest Silicon Valley darling in the week before Valentine’s Day to tank by double-digits, as big investors retaliated for the 50 percent stock drop since December by forcing the company’s CFO to resign.
Having reached a compromise with its drivers, ride-hailing company Lyft has averted a class action lawsuit and avoided driver classification changes which would drastically affect their business model.
In the first part of this series, we looked, in considerable detail, at nationalism and populism, among other topics.
San Francisco’s largest taxi company, Yellow Cab Cooperative Inc., filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Friday, adding it to a growing list of traditional taxi companies that have been feeling the burn from ride-sharing startups Uber and Lyft.
On Thursday, Uber started transporting passengers from LAX, cutting into taxi drivers’ opportunities and prompting taxi drivers to slam the ride-sharing company for lax security procedures.
Saudi Arabia’s discriminatory automotive policies against women have allowed for the ride-sharing app Uber to achieve great success, due to females’ having limited transportation options.
(ADULT LANGUAGE WARNING) A YouTube video was uploaded Tuesday of what appears to be a University of Miami medical resident going on a drunken tirade with an Uber driver has made its way around the internet. YouTube user Juan Cinco, who uploaded
On Wednesday, Uber announced it would enable nonviolent felons whose sentences have been reduced to misdemeanors to apply as drivers, according to CBS San Francisco.
With the rise of Uber, Airbnb, and TaskRabbit, there’s a sinking suspicion that the traditional 9-5 job is being replaced by flexible, independent contract work. But, despite the existence of multiple billion-dollar Silicon Valley startups hiring an army of independent contract workers, economists have had difficulty finding any evidence that Americans were more likely to be self-employed.
In light of the Democrat-sponsored gun control following the San Bernardino attack, it is crucial to remember the important role armed citizens play in keeping themselves and others safe.
Uber’s poaching spree continues as the multibillion-dollar company has snatched away a second executive from Google Maps, Manik Gupta.
Mercedes-Benz research and development lab in Sunnyvale, California is racing to beat Apple, Google and Uber to dominate commercial and luxury self-driving vehicles. Google, Tesla, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Honda, Volkswagen and four other developers of autonomous vehicles already have permission from
Acclaimed British actress Frances Barber has said she was verbally abused by a “sharia” Uber driver who accused her of dressing “disgustingly”. Ms Barber, who starred in BBC legal drama Silk, booked the Uber car home after attending the Evening
(Ferenstein Wire)—Silicon Valley is coming after unionized industries. A top investor in the Valley, Paul Graham, lit up Twitter, tweeting, “Any industry that still has unions has potential energy that could be released by startups. (I don’t mean in simply paying people less, but rather that industries afflicted by unions are sclerotic so have left lots undone.)”
During Veterans Day week in Chicago, a new transportation service for our military veterans is being launched. It combines the best of both the private and public sector to offer the potential for the nation’s first scalable veterans serving veterans initiative that could transform the lives of many veterans.
Justin Bieber is using the ride-sharing app Lyft to help launch his new album Purpose this week–and a few lucky users of the app could even get to share a ride with the pop star.
Bernie Sanders really isn’t a fan of Uber, the ride-share company he’s called “unregulated” with “serious problems” in an interview with Bloomberg in August. So it strikes us as odd that his own campaign uses this “unregulated service” a stunning 100
On Friday night, a video camera installed by an Uber driver recorded an argument between a seemingly drunk passenger and the driver that turned violent when the driver asked the passenger to leave.
