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What We Know About the Murder of Loletha Hall Police say an Uber driver was killed by a man who thought she was a scammer.
getting around
Jan. 8, 2024
The Flatbush Chick-fil-A Crunch Long waits, wrong-way drivers, and canceled orders at the chain’s only franchise in Brooklyn.
By Clio Chang
screen time
Aug. 21, 2023
Why Nothing on Your Phone Is Safe From Ads Tech companies are just hoping you’ll put up with it.
By John Herrman
getting around
Apr. 14, 2023
By Alissa Walker
The Silicon Valley Loop How the dot-com crash created Palo Alto’s clueless investor class.
By Malcolm Harris
getting around
May 9, 2022
Uber Is Ready to Accept Failure, Sort Of In a leaked memo, the CEO admits the plan was never going to work.
By Alissa Walker
getting around
Apr. 19, 2022
‘It’s Over. Immediately.’ Mid-flight announcements and other glimpses at the chaos that ensued after the abrupt end of the transit mask mandate.
By Clio Chang
getting around
Mar. 24, 2022
By Clio Chang
Super Pumped Is Super ExhaustingThe anthology series’s Uber-focused first season mirrors the overconfident posture of its tech-iconoclast protagonist, for better and worse.
By Jen Chaney
Uber Is Uber’s Rudest Passenger Was the company not an option in the survey?
By Clio Chang
trailer mix
Jan. 27, 2022
By Ashley Shannon Wu
getting around
Nov. 11, 2021
Uber Is Yet Again Being Sued for Discriminating Against Disabled Riders Some passengers with wheelchairs are charged extra on every ride, according to a Justice Department lawsuit.
By Valeria Ricciulli
Lyft Received Over 1,800 Sexual-Assault Reports in a Year After dragging its feet for years, the company has finally released new safety data.
By Claire Lampen
the city politic
Oct. 22, 2021
By Errol Louis
Can Anyone Stop the Uberization of the Economy? How ride-sharing apps are trying to spread the gig-worker model far and wide.
By Bryce Covert
getting around
June 21, 2021
City Council Candidate Jaslin Kaur Interviews Her Cabdriver Father The candidate and her father talk about the medallion crisis that inspired her run and her platform to improve conditions for all drivers.
By Valeria Ricciulli
America’s Hollow Embrace of Juneteenth How a commemoration of Black liberation became a favorite holiday of corporations and lawmakers.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
Uber Drivers Aren’t Making More Money As Prices Surge Amid Shortage: Report Despite the 50 percent surge in rideshare prices amid the reopening, drivers reportedly aren’t reaping the benefits.
By Matt Stieb
getting around
June 4, 2021
Why Your Uber Ride Is Suddenly Costing a Fortune Driver shortage, customer surplus, and harsh financial reality.
By Alissa Walker
Kyle Chandler to Take You for a Ride in Showtime’s Super Pumped The Godzilla vs. Kong actor will star as venture capitalist and Uber board member Bill Gurley.
By Halle Kiefer
An Asian Uber Driver Was Pepper Sprayed and Coughed On by Riders After the driver, who is from Nepal, asked the passengers to wear masks, they called him racial slurs and ripped off his mask.
By Amanda Arnold
getting around
Dec. 22, 2020
By Sarah Jones
Where Does Lyft Go After Its Huge Win in California? After the passage of Prop 22, Lyft president John Zimmer discusses the future of ride-share with Pivot co-hosts Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway.
By Intelligencer Staff
getting around
Nov. 5, 2020
Uber and Lyft Just Bought a Law in California The companies spent $200 million to pass Proposition 22, which establishes gig-economy drivers as a new employment class.
By Alissa Walker
wolves in wokes clothing
Nov. 4, 2020
Uber and Lyft’s Proposition 22 Win Is a Warning Shot to Democrats Corporations co-opted the language of social justice to screw workers, and the party is too comfortable with it.
By Sarah Jones
Are Uber and Lyft Shutting Down in California? The ride-hailing companies threatened to stop operations in protest of a recent labor law. Here’s what we know.
By Amanda Arnold
the top line
Aug. 10, 2020
If Uber’s Food-Delivery Business Isn’t Profitable Now, When Can It Be? Huge growth is based on charging customers less for delivery than drivers get paid to provide it.
By Josh Barro
food delivery
July 7, 2020
By Rachel Sugar
Should Restaurants Fear Uber Eats? Kara Swisher talks with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi about food delivery and the future of the economy.
By Intelligencer Staff
the top line
May 19, 2020
Why Do Food Delivery Companies Lose Money? One common theory is that they are planning to raise their prices someday. I think something else is going on.
By Josh Barro
Can Amazon, Uber, and Lyft All Thrive After the Coronavirus? Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway argue that there may not be space for all three giants to survive in the post-coronavirus landscape.
By Intelligencer Staff
Uber Is Selling Tickets for the City Bus in Las Vegas Imagine this: meeting your ride along a predetermined route.
By Brian Feldman
Are We at Peak Boycott? Social media coupled with an increasingly polarized populace has brought us to what feels like an apex. Or is this just the beginning?
By Collier Meyerson
gig economy
Dec. 24, 2019
Travis Kalanick Is Fully Done With Uber The former CEO is leaving the company’s board at the end of the month, after being forced out for creating a hostile work environment.
By Brian Feldman
sexual assault
Dec. 6, 2019
More Than 3,000 People Reported Sexual Assault in Ubers Last Year The ride-sharing app released its first-ever safety report, and the results are alarming.
By Hannah Gold
Uber CEO Calls Khashoggi Murder a ‘Mistake,’ Quickly Realizes His Mistake Dara Khosrowshahi walked back the comments Monday, tweeting that there’s “no forgiving or forgetting what happened to Jamal Khashoggi.”
By Adam K. Raymond
buyer’s market
Nov. 6, 2019
It’s Time to Relax About LAX-it The new arrangement for Uber riders at the Los Angeles airport is a case study in why consumers just need to be flexible sometimes.
By Josh Barro
buyer’s market
Oct. 30, 2019
Is There a Good Solution to the Uber Crunch at Airports? Uber and Lyft traffic jams are creating misery for departing passengers at LAX and elsewhere. But there is reason for hope.
By Josh Barro
the economy
Sept. 11, 2019
Bill Protecting ‘Gig Workers’ Close to Enactment in California Employers may no longer be able to call their workers contractors, but they’re threatening a ballot initiative to restore “flexibility.”
By Ed Kilgore
Mike Isaac on Travis Kalanick’s Downfall and Uber’s Legacy A new book chronicles how Travis Kalanick went from CEO of the world’s hottest start-up to the exit in just a few months.
By Brian Feldman
Ex-Uber Employee Anthony Levandowski Charged With 33 Counts of Theft Silicon Valley’s most prominent self-driving car expert allegedly downloaded more than 14,000 files from Google shortly before quitting.
By Brian Feldman
the top line
May 21, 2019
Uber’s Irrational Pricing Is a Problem for Policy-makers How do you incentivize a company that seems hell-bent on generating massive losses?
By Josh Barro
the top line
May 17, 2019
The Banks That Ran Uber’s IPO Feared This Would Happen The stock tumbled in its first few days on the market. But did the banks make it worse?
By Josh Barro
Global Drivers’ Strike Shows Tide May Be Shifting for Uber and Lyft With both companies going public this spring, the demonstrations are drawing more attention, and Democratic politicians are echoing drivers’ concerns.
By Sarah Jones
12 Experts on the Uber IPO and the Ridesharing Company’s Future Is Uber a good deal for investors, or is all the hype about the impending IPO overblown? Analysts, academics, journalists, and drivers weigh in.
By Amelia Schonbek
the top line
Apr. 26, 2019
Uber’s Plan to Lose Money on Every Ride and Make It Up in Volume, Annotated The ride-sharing company has laid out a vision for profitability. It is not compelling.
By Josh Barro
life in pixels
Apr. 12, 2019
New York City Could Destroy Uber (If It Wanted To) Uber’s S-1 filing reveals that the cities the company has run roughshod over have an awful lot of leverage over it.
By Max Read
#DeleteUber Cost Uber Hundreds of Thousands of Users The anti-Uber protest revealed a lot of negative sentiment toward the company, a liability as it plans to go public.
By Brian Feldman
Kumail Nanjiani’s Stuber Trailer Has Way Higher Body Count Than Most Ride-Shares Cops probably aren’t allowed to commandeer your Uber and force you to hunt a killer with them, but try telling him that.
By Halle Kiefer
A Woman Was Raped by a Man Pretending to Be Her Uber Driver Details of the December crime have been released following the death of a University of South Carolina student.
By Lisa Ryan
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