Tag: Travis Kalanick
Natasha Ducre surveys the kitchen of her devastated home, which lost most of its roof during the passage of Hurricane Milton on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024. Ducre, her husband, three children and two grandkids rode out the storm in a government shelter and returned to find their home unlivable and much of their furniture and belongings destroyed by rainwater. Image via AP/Rebecca Blackwell.

Associated PressSeptember 25, 2017
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In past skirmishes with local regulators, Uber’s playbook under co-founder and now-ousted CEO Travis Kalanick was simple: fight. Now, as brand-new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi deals with a stunning rebuke from London, the playbook gets another page: fight, but offer some diplomatic humility. On Friday, just hours after Greater London’s transport authorities decided not to renew […]

Phil AmmannJanuary 30, 2015
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After a major expansion push, Uber Technologies is now in 277 cities around the world, at times eluding longstanding local regulations that hampers the smartphone-based ridesharing service. Nevertheless, as resistance mounts, Uber is working overtime to negotiate agreements in a number of jurisdictions to meet existing laws, reports The Wall Street Journal, even though those […]


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