Lyft says it has agreed to pay $27 million to settle a class action lawsuit over whether its drivers in California are independent contractors or employees. That’s more than twice the $12.25 million the ride-hailing company originally agreed to in January, a sum that was subsequently rejected by a federal judge.
An Uber driver and the family he was transporting fell partway into a sinkhole in San Francisco on May 10.
With Donald Trump’s path to the Republican nomination now looking more or less unobstructed, America’s dating scene is—perhaps—getting ready for his presidency.
Uber’s fight to keep drivers as independent contractors rather than employees has paid off, big time.
The era of free money is waning, if not over, in Silicon Valley, and startups are buckling down. That’s true even in the once red-hot on-demand sector, filled with businesses competing to bring you things or provide you with services ordered at the touch of a button.
Facebook’s influential trending news feed is looking less and less organic.
Uber and Lyft have suspended service in Austin after losing a local election in the Texas capital over the weekend.
Uber and Lyft spent nearly $9 million on a May 7 special election in Austin, Texas. They offered free rides to the polls, and texted users asking for their support. They pulled out all the stops in a political playbook that has worked in almost every other city in the US.
The stakes are high for today’s special election in Austin, Texas. The outcome—which Uber and Lyft have tried to influence with more than $8 million in political contributions, an unprecedented sum in local Austin politics—will determine the future of ride-hailing in the Texas capital and potentially preserve a regulatory precedent that could threaten Uber and Lyft across America.
General Motors and Lyft plan to begin testing self-driving taxis within the year, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
The New York Times is getting in on one of the biggest crazes in tech.
Uber likes to say that its platform is an “important source of income” for drivers.
Amazon’s failure to consistently generate a profit even as its revenues swell has become a point of frustration for investors. That’s beginning to change.
Uber is losing patience with slow riders.
Uber is famous for telling users there’s no need to tip.
Uber is paying up to $100 million to settle class action lawsuits in California and Massachusetts. Drivers in those states will remain independent contractors rather than becoming employees.
Top tech dealmaker Bill Gurley has a dire message for Silicon Valley: The unicorn fantasy is unraveling. Fast.
This January, drivers on UberPeople.net, a popular online ride-hailing forum, noticed something odd: rates on Prime Time, Lyft’s version of surge pricing, were rising above 200%.
Uber is killing off the “instant” option in UberEats, its food-delivery service, just one month after the standalone app launched in New York City.
It’s shaping up to be an uneasy year in Silicon Valley. Funding has slowed, downrounds are kicking in. Once high-flying startups are cutting perks and laying off staff. They’re also afraid to pursue exits via public markets, leaving the tech IPO market a wasteland.
Chariot for Women has yet to launch, but it’s already enjoying a wild ride. Practically overnight, the women-only ride-hailing service has become a global sensation.
A woman in Ohio has been charged with live-streaming the rape of a 17-year-old girl on Twitter’s Periscope app.
New York State legislators want law enforcement to be able to partly access mobile devices at the site of car crashes to investigate whether a driver was distracted.
Uber is out with its first-ever transparency report on data it provides to US government agencies, and the release has a shocking headliner. From July 2015 to December, US state and city regulators required Uber to hand over data that “affected” 11.6 million riders and 583,000 drivers.
