Jesse SchecknerAugust 29, 2023
11min0
If adopted, the regulations would be the 1st of their kind in the county.
Tag: Travis KalanickCrowds gather to see Atlantis at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. (Gabrielle Russon)
Jesse SchecknerAugust 29, 2023
Associated PressJuly 11, 2022
4min0
Company officials today stress the corporation is under new management.
Associated PressSeptember 25, 2017
8min210
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 […]
Associated PressFebruary 2, 2017
5min178
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has quit President Donald Trump‘s council of business leaders, according to an internal memo obtained by The Associated Press. Kalanick wrote to his employees that he’d spoken with Trump on Thursday to “let him know that I would not be able to participate on his economic council. Joining the group was […]
Jim RosicaFebruary 1, 2017
5min459
A Florida appellate court has ruled that a former Uber driver isn’t entitled to unemployment benefits because he was an independent contractor, not an employee. A unanimous three-judge panel of the 3rd District Court of Appeal in Miami ruled Wednesday for the Department of Economic Opportunity, the state’s jobs agency, against Darrin E. McGillis. The […]
Associated PressDecember 9, 2015
1min272
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been named Time magazine’s Person of the Year, praised for her leadership on everything from Syrian refugees to the Greek debt crisis. “Leaders are tested only when people don’t want to follow,” Time editor Nancy Gibbs said in a statement issued Wednesday. “For asking more of her country than most […]
Mitch PerryJuly 16, 2015
6min137
Jeb Bush is in San Francisco today, where he plans to hail an Uber to show support for the ride-sharing company. His appearance comes a day after California regulators required the company to pay a $7.3 million fine and hand over required information about safety and accessibility — or be shut down in their home state. The California […]
Phil AmmannJanuary 30, 2015
5min209
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 […]