Uber just lost its license in a third UK city — the latest in a long line of setbacks to befall the ride-hailing firm. On Tuesday, the City of York Council’s Gambling, Licensing and Regulatory Committee has rejected Uber’s application to renew its private hire operator’s license, citing concerns about a massive data breach that […]
I live on an obnoxiously quaint block in South Berkeley, California, lined with trees and two-story houses. There’s a constant stream of sidewalk joggers before and after work, and plenty of (good) dogs in the yards. Trick-or-treaters from distant regions of the East Bay invade on Halloween. Once a week, the serenity is interrupted by […]
The texts are long gone. That is becoming a more common reality in workplaces. More companies are starting to approve the use of ephemeral messaging apps like Wickr, Telegram and Vaporstream for internal communications. The tools are used for security. They can keep sensitive conversations from falling into the wrong hands by automatically deleting messages […]
LONDON (Reuters) – Uber [UBER.UL] will defend its right to operate in London in court next year after the app was deemed unfit to run a taxi service and stripped of its license in its most important European market. Regulator Transport for London (TfL) shocked the Silicon Valley firm by rejecting its license renewal bid […]
Uber has agreed to settle a U.S. civil lawsuit filed by a woman who accused top executives of improperly obtaining her medical records after a company driver raped her in India, according to a court filing on Friday. In a criminal case in India, the Uber driver was convicted of the rape, which occurred in […]
We’ve gone from an energy-scarce to an energy-abundant nation, and our climate debate has waxed and waned. Let’s drill down on a decade’s worth of changes. 1. The oil boom America’s oil production has nearly doubled over the last decade, and we became the world’s biggest oil producer a few years ago, thanks to drilling […]
If the year’s most popular apps are any indication, 2017 was all about showing off the best versions of ourselves. Apple has unveiled its list of most downloaded iOS apps of the year, and topping the list is free custom emoji app Bitmoji. The most popular paid app? Selfie editing tool Facetune ($3.99), which lets […]
A 20-year-old Florida man was responsible for the large data breach at Uber Technologies last year and was paid by Uber to destroy the data through a so-called “bug bounty” program normally used to identify small code vulnerabilities, three people familiar with the events have told Reuters. Uber announced on Nov. 21 that the personal […]
A 20-year-old Florida man was responsible for the large data breach at Uber last year and was paid by Uber to destroy the data through a so-called “bug bounty” program normally used to identify small code vulnerabilities, three people familiar with the events have told Reuters. Uber announced on Nov. 21 that the personal data […]
SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A 20-year-old Florida man was responsible for the large data breach at Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] last year and was paid by Uber to destroy the data through a so-called “bug bounty” program normally used to identify small code vulnerabilities, three people familiar with the events have told Reuters. Uber announced […]
But Swildens had a suspicion. He dug into the history of Waymo’s lidars, and came to the conclusion that Waymo’s key patent should never have been granted at all. He asked the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to look into its validity, and in early September, the USPTO granted that request. Days later, Waymo […]
Lyft’s latest round of funding just got bigger. The ride-hailing company announced in October that it had received a $1 billion investment, led by Google-parent Alphabet’s investment arm CapitalG. On Tuesday, Lyft said the funding had been increased by $500 million, for a grand total of $1.5 billion. The influx of cash could help Lyft […]
(This version of the Nov. 20 story corrects to show Uber used a business version of Wickr since October last year, not for the last two years, in paragraph 9) By Paresh Dave and Heather Somerville SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Top executives at Uber Technologies Inc used the encrypted chat app Wickr to hold secret […]
Uber’s year of efficiency is backfiring. The ride-hailing app’s 2017 goal was to grow while minimizing subsidies and cash burn. Instead, losses accelerated by a third, to nearly $1.5 billion in the third quarter, from the previous three months. Uber faces a slew of problems, but has yet to answer a basic existential question: Can […]
The letter that caused the trial to be delayed was written by a lawyer for Richard Jacobs, a former employee in Uber’s security team, to Angela Padilla, the company’s deputy general counsel. Thirty-seven pages long, it detailed a list of questionable behavior at Uber, including spying on competitors and using special laptop computers and self-destructing […]
A single letter may change the course of a billion-dollar civil suit between Uber and Waymo, the self-driving car division of Google’s parent company, Alphabet. That letter, a previously undisclosed 37-page document that was discovered by the court only last week, alleges that the ride-hailing giant developed secret, off-the-books efforts to steal trade secrets from […]
(Reuters) – Uber Technologies Inc’s [UBER.UL] quarterly losses widened, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday, as the ride-hailing company wades through legal troubles and faces regulatory scrutiny across the globe. The Silicon Valley-based company’s net loss increased to $1.46 billion in the third quarter from $1.06 billion in the previous quarter, […]
(Reuters) – Uber Technologies Inc’s quarterly losses widened, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday, as the ride-hailing company wades through legal troubles and faces regulatory scrutiny across the globe. The Silicon Valley-based company’s net loss increased to $1.46 billion in the third quarter from $1.06 billion in the previous quarter, the source said. […]
The letter was written in May or June by a lawyer for Richard Jacobs, a former Uber employee, to Angela Padilla, deputy general counsel at Uber. Uber hired Mr. Jacobs in March 2016 as its manager of global intelligence and fired him in April of this year, Mr. Jacobs testified in court on Tuesday. He […]
Federal prosecutors are investigating allegations that Uber deployed an espionage team to plunder trade secrets from its rivals. That has triggered a delay in a high-profile trial over whether the beleaguered ride-hailing company stole self-driving car technology from Google spinoff Waymo. The criminal investigation being conducted by the U.S. Justice Department centers on information contained […]
SINGAPORE—When Uber Technologies Inc. retreated from China last year after conceding a costly battle with a local rival, the ride-hailing giant vowed to devote new resources to winning other lucrative markets in Asia. Since then, Uber has suffered setbacks in Southeast Asia, a region of 600 million people, where it has been outflanked by another […]
Airbnb is taking a page out of Uber’s playbook. The short-term rental startup has announced it will now let users split payments on the platform. Airbnb users can split the cost of a listing with up to 16 people. Previously, the trip organizer would have to pay for the entire cost of the stay upfront. […]
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The judge overseeing a lawsuit between Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] and Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Waymo self-driving car unit issued a series of orders this week, prompted by information shared with him by the U.S. Department of Justice. U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco disclosed on Wednesday that he had […]
Uber is desperate. Its business model may not allow it to ever make money as long as it has to pay human drivers, spend massive resources to recruit them, and deal with the fallout when they cause problems. So it has been furiously working on self-driving technologies. And now it’s taking a small-scale experimental program […]
Uber plans to move ahead with a deal to bring in Japanese technology company SoftBank Group as a major investor by disclosing the pricing early next week in formal tender offers to the ride-hailing service’s investors, two people familiar with the plans said on Friday. The start of the tender follows Uber’s disclosure on Tuesday […]
Uber and Yandex’s ride-sharing businesses can merge in Russia, anti-monopoly regulator FAS ruled on Friday, but stipulated that the combined company not bar drivers from working for competitors. Uber and Yandex, often referred to as the “Google of Russia”, announced plans in July to combine operations in 127 cities in Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia […]
When Greg Rogers left his gig as a Washington, DC, lobbyist in 2015, he did what any savvy, mid-20s kid with a car and a light wallet might: He signed up to drive for a couple of ridehailing services. “Living the millennial dream means quitting your job, driving for Uber and Lyft, and trying to […]
Uber’s disclosure that hackers accessed the personal information of 57 million riders and drivers last year, a breach it didn’t disclose publicly until Tuesday, adds new potential legal woes for the already troubled company. At the time of the breach, Uber paid hackers $100,000 to destroy the data and did not tell regulators or users […]
You gasp with each new report on Uber’s toxicity. On Tuesday, there was the harassment and discrimination documented in an endless list of internal recommendations by Eric H. Holder Jr., the former attorney general, who was hired to peer into Uber’s ugly depths. Then, while presenting the report to employees, an Uber board member made […]
Transport for London has refused Uber’s request for a new licence, saying the app is not “fit and proper” to operate in the city. The decision raises the prospect that the ride-hailing service will be banned from the capital. It is not the first time the company has hit a roadblock of this kind on […]
If you live in an American city, and have disposable income, Uber has likely revolutionized how you get around. The app, which more or less invented — and now dominates — the smartphone-ride-hailing business, made getting a cab easier and more pleasant (and in some cities cheaper) than ever before; from design to functionality, the […]
Uber Technologies Inc. admitted Tuesday that hackers stole personal data belonging to 57 million customers and drivers — a fact it concealed for more than a year. The attack, which took place in October 2016, resulted in the worldwide theft of names, email addresses and phone numbers belonging to 50 million Uber riders, according to […]
By now, the name Uber has become practically synonymous with scandal. But this time the company has outdone itself, building a Jenga-style tower of scandals on top of scandals that has only now come crashing down. Not only did the ridesharing service lose control of 57 million people’s private information, it also hid that massive […]
In October 2016, hackers stole the personal data of 50 million riders and about 7 million drivers from Uber. Instead of reporting the breach, the company paid $100,000 to hackers to delete the data and keep quiet, in what became a yearlong cover-up. The breach, made public in an explosive new report from Bloomberg, led […]
Uber says it paid hackers $100,000 after they stole data last year on 57 million of its users. The startup did not disclose the attack until Tuesday, adding a potential cover up to a list of recent corporate controversies. Uber said that two people outside the company accessed the personal information of 57 million Uber […]
Uber Technologies executives concealed a data breach, which compromised the information of 57 million accounts, for more than a year, the San Francisco ride-hailing company said on Tuesday. This concealment effort reportedly included a $100,000 payout to the hackers in exchange for their silence about the incident. That hack, which occurred in October 2016, exposed […]
Uber concealed a massive global breach of the personal information of 57 million customers and drivers in October 2016, failing to notify the individuals and regulators, the company acknowledged on Tuesday. Uber also confirmed it had paid the hackers responsible $100,000 to delete the data and keep the breach quiet, which was first reported by […]
The details of the attack remained hidden until Tuesday. The ride-hailing company said it had discovered the breach as part of a board investigation into Uber’s business practices. The breach at Uber is far from the most serious exposure of sensitive customer information. The two breaches that Yahoo announced in 2016 eclipse Uber’s in size, […]
