#Uber, Lyft team up on database to expose abusive drivers

#Uber, Lyft team up on database to expose abusive drivers

“#Uber, Lyft team up on database to expose abusive drivers” Uber and Lyft have teamed up to create a database of drivers ousted from their ride-hailing services for complaints about sexual assault and other crimes that have raised passenger-safety concerns for years. The clearinghouse unveiled Thursday will initially list drivers expelled by the ride-hailing rivals…

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#Uber stock slides after UK court rules drivers are ‘workers’

#Uber stock slides after UK court rules drivers are ‘workers’

“#Uber stock slides after UK court rules drivers are ‘workers’” Uber’s stock price tumbled Friday after Britain’s top court said its drivers should be treated as “workers” rather than independent contractors. Shares in the ride-hailing giant slid 1.6 percent in premarket trading to $58.07 as of 9:17 a.m. following the UK Supreme Court’s ruling, which…

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# Uber and Adyen CEOs both say no to Bitcoin for now

# Uber and Adyen CEOs both say no to Bitcoin for now

“# Uber and Adyen CEOs both say no to Bitcoin for now ” Chief executive officers at e-commerce firm Adyen and ridesharing and delivery app Uber are not following in Tesla’s Bitcoin footsteps just yet, but for different reasons. In an interview with CNBC’s Squawk Box today, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said conversations about Bitcoin…

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#Trump pardons convicted ex-Google engineer Anthony Levandowski

#Trump pardons convicted ex-Google engineer Anthony Levandowski

“#Trump pardons convicted ex-Google engineer Anthony Levandowski” President Trump pardoned a former Google engineer who was convicted of what a federal judge called the “biggest trade secret crime” he had ever seen. Anthony Levandowski was sentenced to 18 months in prison last August for stealing documents from Google’s self-driving car unit, Waymo, before he went…

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#California fines Uber M in sexual assault data dispute

#California fines Uber $59M in sexual assault data dispute

“#California fines Uber $59M in sexual assault data dispute” California regulators fined Uber $59 million and threatened to suspend its operating license in the state after it refused to fork over details about sexual assaults that occurred on its trips. An administrative law judge ordered the ride-hailing giant to comply with the California Public Utilities…

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#Uber sells its self-driving car business for  billion

#Uber sells its self-driving car business for $4 billion

“#Uber sells its self-driving car business for $4 billion” Uber is out of the self-driving vehicle game. The ride-hail giant on Monday announced that it sold its Advanced Technologies Group to self-driving car startup Aurora for $4 billion, ridding itself of a source of major cash burn. Along with the sale — which represents a…

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#Uber, JetBlue join Amazon-backed Climate Pledge

#Uber, JetBlue join Amazon-backed Climate Pledge

“#Uber, JetBlue join Amazon-backed Climate Pledge” Amazon said Wednesday that five companies, including Uber and JetBlue, have joined its Climate Pledge, a commitment to be net-zero carbon by 2040. Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos last year pledged to make the largest US e-commerce company net carbon neutral by 2040, as employees and consumers around the…

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