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Uber fined $14m for lying to make you ditch cabs
Australia's Federal Court has fined Uber AU$21 million ($14 million) for engaging in misleading and deceptive conduct. Uber did so in two ways – one of which involved the offer it made in some parts of Australia to arrange rides in ye olde licensed taxis from within its app.
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Uber exec accused of disguising data-breach extortion as “bug bounty”
After the Federal Trade Commission began investigating a massive Uber data breach in 2016, the tech company was hit with another breach that was seemingly just as concerning. Rather than report the second data breach to the FTC and risk further public embarrassment, then-Uber security chief Joe Sullivan consulted with lawyers and then negotiated with the hackers. He allegedly set up a deal under which Uber paid the hackers a $100,000 "bug bounty" to delete the data, then pretended the data breach was part of a planned test of Uber's security and had the hackers sign a nondisclosure agreement.
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Uber will start showing drivers how much they’ll be paid for accepting a trip
Uber says that it’s “completely reimagined the way drivers accept rides” with a feature called “upfront fares,” which shows drivers exactly how much they’ll be paid for a trip and where they’ll end up after dropping a rider off. In its announcement on Friday, the company says the change is part of its push to make driving for the rideshare service more flexible.
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Uber will pay $2.2 million to settle claims it overcharged riders with disabilities
Uber is settling a Justice Department lawsuit accusing the company of overcharging riders with disabilities. The ridesharing company has agreed to pay at least $2.2 million to passengers who were charged wait time fees despite disabilities that required more time to enter a vehicle. The payout includes nearly $1.74 million for over 1,000 riders who complained about the fees and $500,000 for “other harmed individuals.” Uber will also offer credits to more than 65,000 people who've obtained waivers for wait time fees, all of whom will receive double the wait time fees they were charged.
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Uber sued by more than 500 women over sexual assault claims
The filing comes nearly two weeks after the ride-hailing giant released its second safety report, saying sexual assault reported on the platform was down.
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The Uber whistleblower who leaked 124,000 files is an ex-top lobbyist. He says he was 'drunk on the Kool-Aid' of the company.
Uber's former top lobbying exec in Europe Mark MacGann said Uber had "sold people a lie" in an interview with The Guardian.
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Leaked Uber Files reveal history of lawbreaking, lobbying and exploiting violence against drivers – TechCrunch
Thousands of leaked confidential files reveal a treasure trove of sketchy and unlawful behavior from Uber.
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Uber broke laws, duped police and built secret lobbying operation, leak reveals
A leaked trove of confidential files has revealed the inside story of how the tech giant Uber flouted laws, duped police, exploited violence against drivers and secretly lobbied governments during its aggressive global expansion.
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Waymo and Uber Partner to Deploy Self-Driving Trucks at Scale
It's easy to think of self-driving cars as the main battleground for autonomy. Certainly, that aspect of pilotless vehicles has gotten the most attention over the past five years or so, with companies like Waymo and Argo and Cruise generally leading the way. However, it's autonomous trucking that has the potential to really shake up the transportation industry. Today that technology is taking a big step towards mainstream.
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Waymo and Uber Partner to Deploy Self-Driving Trucks at Scale
Autonomous freight could shake up the industry, and with this partnership the Waymo Driver is getting scale.
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The Decade of Cheap Uber Rides Is Over
How American life was changed by a subsidy that ride-hail companies can no longer afford.
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Uber to Wall Street: We're not Lyft
Uber Technologies Inc on Wednesday said it had no need to boost incentives further to lure more drivers and forecast a strong second quarter, a day after rival Lyft said it needed to spend more for labor in the coming months.
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Uber will soon offer NYC yellow cabs via the app
Uber has struck a deal that will soon allow folks in New York City to hail yellow cabs through its app. The city's 14,000 taxi drivers will be able to accept fares from Uber users through apps like Curb and Arro.
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Uber is looking at dispatching New York's yellow cabs from its app amid a driver shortage
Uber app users could see New York City's yellow cabs as another option alongside "UberX," which would be facilitated through TLC's "E-Hail" program.
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Uber tests shared rides in Africa as UberPool stays shut in US, Canada
Uber is testing Pool Chance, a feature that lets riders heading in the same direction share the cost of the journey, in Kenya, with plans to roll out the low-cost service to Ghana and Nigeria. TechCrunch discovered the option when booking a car in Nairobi, Kenya. An Uber spokesperson later confirmed it was part of a pilot (beta version) of the service that it plans to roll out more widely, pending the outcome of the smaller test.
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For Uber and Lyft, the Rideshare Bubble Bursts
Rideharing companies made a lot of promises. They’re not being kept.
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Uber to pay pensions to all its UK drivers, backdated to 2017
Uber is to pay out millions of pounds in missed pension payments to UK drivers dating back as far as 2017 under a deal with the retirement savings watchdog. The ride hailing company was forced to guarantee its 70,000 UK drivers a minimum hourly wage, holiday pay and pensions in March this year after a landmark supreme court ruling over their employment status. Couriers for the group’s UberEats food delivery service are not included in the deal.
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End of the line for Uber
Uber is a bezzle ("the magic interval when a confidence trickster knows he has the money he has appropriated but the victim does not yet understand that he has lost it"). Every bezzle ends. Uber's time is up.
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After winning big in California, gig companies take their worker classification fight to Massachusetts
Last year, Uber, Lyft, DoorDash and Instacart succeeded in getting Californians to vote in favor of a ballot measure exempting them from classifying drivers and delivery workers as employees. Now, the companies are in the early stages of taking a similar approach in Massachusetts.
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Uber Boosts Trucking Push With $2.25 Billion Deal To Buy Freight Service Transplace
Ridehail giant Uber is making a big push to beef up its trucking business by purchasing logistics service Transplace for about $2.25 billion, intending to turn its Uber Freight unit into a top player in arranging and tracking shipments of goods.
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