Coronavirus Update: Uber Requiring Drivers Take Selfies To Verify Mask Compliance
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The experience of taking an Uber is about to change.
Grubhub stock soared more than 25% on Tuesday after reports that San Francisco-based Uber has made an offer to buy the meal delivery company.
Uber lost $2.9 billion in the first quarter as its overseas investments were hammered by the coronavirus pandemic.
Uber is cutting 3,700 full-time workers and its CEO will give up his base salary with the nation largely still in lockdown.
City Attorney Dennis Herrera on Tuesday announced San Francisco would be joining the state and other cities in suing Uber and Lyft over the misclassification of their drivers as independent contractors.
Uber plans to require drivers and riders to wear face masks or face coverings when using the platform in certain countries, including the United States.
Uber is addressing some mistakes it made when originally setting up its financial assistance program for its drivers and delivery workers impacted by coronavirus.
Taxi drivers in San Francisco on Thursday asked the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency for relief as they say they're facing a dramatic decline in business, despite being an essential service.
Former Google self-driving program executive Anthony Scott Levandowski has submitted documents requesting that a federal judge accept his guilty plea to theft of trade secrets charges, prosecutors announced Thursday.
The UberPool option, which offers riders a lower price by allowing them to share the car with other passengers heading in the same direction, is now unavailable when users open the app.
An Uber driver fought off a band of armed carjackers in San Francisco early Thursday, one of three unsuccessful carjacking attempts by a gang of three suspects during the early morning hours.
A case centered around the meltdown of San Francisco's taxi industry that has occurred over the course of nearly a decade could finally be edging towards a conclusion.
A federal judge on Monday refused to exempt ride-hailing company Uber and on-demand meal delivery service Postmates from a broad new California labor law while she considers their lawsuit.
Uber is still losing money as it expands its food delivery business and develops technology for driverless cars.
Uber is testing out a new feature that allows some drivers in California to choose how much they will charge customers.
On Wednesday, Joby Aviation, a Santa Cruz-based startup that has kept its electric flying taxi secretive for years, secured venture capital funding to the tune of $590 million, largely led by Toyota.
Ride-share company Uber and on-demand meal delivery service Postmates sued Monday to block a broad new California law aimed at giving wage and benefit protections to people who work as independent contractors.
California's long tradition of advancing nation-leading legislation continues into the new year, with laws reining in the gig economy, boosting online privacy and discouraging shootings by police, among other potential trend-setters.
Former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick will resign from the board next week, effectively severing ties with the San Francisco-based company he co-founded a decade ago.
Uber and Lyft said they will make good on their threats to stop taking customers to and from the airport in the nation's fifth-largest city.
Uber Technologies Inc. will establish a $4.4 million fund to settle a federal investigation into allegations that the San Francisco company allowed a rampant culture of sexual harassment.
Two national groups representing freelance writers and photographers on Tuesday filed the second legal challenge to California's broad new labor law.
A day after Uber revealed that more than 3,000 riders and drivers were sexually assaulted last year while using its service, attention is turning to what's next for the ride-hailing giant and whether its plans to improve safety go far enough.
Uber released its highly-anticipated safety report on Thursday that revealed, among other details, that it received over 3,000 reports of sexual assault in 2018.
Uber has just suffered a significant setback in one of its biggest markets.
