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On a recent segment of his popular Fox News program, conservative pundit Tucker Carlson took aim at the elite billionaires Jeff Bezos, the Walton family, and Travis Kalanick, arguing that their giant corporations rip off the taxpayers. Carlson claimed ...

A deal would be a significant statement of intent by the American ride-hailing giant's chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi, who took over from founder Travis Kalanick last year: he wants Uber Eats to become the world's largest meal-delivery business.

He was also Uber's chief economist, and he took his complaint straight to the company's CEO. “I called Travis [Kalanick] and I told Travis, 'I will never use your app again because I got this terrible trip,'” List says. “And I said, 'To compound the ...

To create a hitherto unknown market, or disrupt an existing one is every startup's dilemma, and Uber has attempted both – the first with its ride-hailing service, and second with the food business. When Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp found it ...

However, Messina has a long road ahead if she is to help turn around the company's reputation, damaged from its previous chief executive and co-founder, Travis Kalanick. Even after Kalanick resigned in June 2017, Uber has been battling image problems, ...

And once we did, around a year later, we stopped working directly for Uber. They had what they needed in-house. I still gave advice to Travis on a variety of issues (given the rapidly growing value of my equity, I was as economically and emotionally ...

1of 35FILE - In this March 15, 2017, file photo, a sign marks a pick-up point for the Uber car service at LaGuardia Airport in New York. Drivers for the ride-hailing company Uber are frustrated over a glitch that is keeping them from being paid ...

The lawsuit "does not specifically tie any particular misrepresentation by defendants to a decline in Uber's stock price," Gilliam wrote in his ruling. Instead it "lumps together" scandals and asserts a “vague and attenuated connection” to the ...

Founder and CEO Travis Kalanick had made such a mess of things that the board finally pushed him out four months after harassment and sexism allegations rocked the company. Khosrowshahi arrived to his first official day of work on September 5 with a ...

Long a high-flying tech startup fueled by the bravado of its onetime co-founder and CEO Travis Kalanick, Uber hit rough waters in February 2017 with a blog post by former engineer Susan Fowler. Her bombshell account detailed a toxic, sexist work ...

The then CEO, Mr Travis Kalanick, set the culture for the company, with “this idea of a disruptive, irreverent company that wanted to break all the rules”, said former BBC correspondent Mark Worthington, now the managing director (Singapore) of Klareco ...

A year after Dara Khosrowshahi took the reins at Uber following the resignation of controversial founder Travis Kalanick, the company is still facing massive, six-figure losses. Only now it's also grappling with slower revenue growth. Investors can ...

... until 2014, will replace Joe Sullivan as the ride-hailing company's top security official. Sullivan was fired by Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi over his handling of a massive cyber breach last year that happened during former CEO Travis Kalanick's tenure.

The most extreme example of that attitude is Uber's brash former CEO Travis Kalanick, who fought them with gusto. But companies like Airbnb, FanDuel, Bird, and the bevy of self-driving car companies are all having their own stand-offs with city and ...

In 2015, Kalanick — Uber's then-chief executive — scored his most pivotal policy victory in New York when the ride-hailing company faced down Mayor Bill de Blasio and won. Back then, Kalanick pulled out all the stops. The company launched an ...

Uber is still in the early days of trying to become a kinder, gentler company. CEO Dara Khosrowshahi is trying to eradicate the toxic culture that was created by his predecessor, Travis Kalanick, and replace it with something more inclusive, a very ...

Uber has also weathered a series of scandals including claims of sexual harassment, and its former CEO Travis Kalanick stepping down last summer. With this new proposal in front of the City Council, the city would put a stop to issuing new licenses on ...

She first rose to prominence in February 2017, when she published a blog post describing rampant sexual harassment at Uber. Her blog post sparked a wide-scale investigation into Uber's culture and an investor uprising that forced out CEO Travis Kalanick.

At Uber, however, it's more widely relevant, given how many people have switched to Lyft or deleted Uber from their phones in protest at the company's culture and values. The #deleteuber campaign led to the defenestration of founder Travis Kalanick as ...

We've covered Uber's retention problems before. Last year, more than a dozen high-level employees departed in the span of four months, culminating in founder Travis Kalanick's resignation as CEO. And this year, under the guidance of Dara Khosrowshahi, ...