Published on: 2025-06-05 16:07:25
Nikesh Arora, CEO of Palo Alto Networks, appears on CNBC's "Squawk Box" at the WEF Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 16th, 2024. Nikesh Arora, the CEO of Palo Alto Networks , is joining Uber 's board of directors, the company announced in a regulatory filing Wednesday. It comes amid a broader executive shakeup this week at the ride-hailing company, which saw head of delivery Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty depart after 13 years. Andrew Macdonald, head of mobility, was promoted to president
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-06 15:00:00
One month after debuting a pilot version of its app for older people, Uber is now launching the feature nationwide, the company said Wednesday. The more streamlined design aims to make ride-hailing simpler by displaying larger text and fewer steps, and by surfacing frequent destinations like home or the doctor's office. Senior accounts are part of Uber's family profile feature. You can invite an older adult to join and select the Senior option. After they accept the invite, their account will a
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is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Last month, Uber started testing new accounts for senior citizens, with a larger typeface, fewer buttons, and easier-to-follow instructions. Now, the company is ready to roll out its new senior accounts to the wider world. Starting today, Uber’s senior accounts will be available to everyone in the US, as well as select are
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-06 20:00:00
Uber today revealed a new type of account, called Senior Accounts, for older users that prioritizes a simpler app experience with features like ride updates for family members, saved destinations, and the ability to use a family member’s card for payments. Uber said Senior Accounts present a simpler app experience with larger text and icons, as well as less complex screens. Users can switch this mode on using the accessibility settings in the app. Image Credits: Uber Users in the U.S. can now
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-10 03:56:45
Uber said Monday that Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty, one of the company's longest-tenured top executives and the head of is delivery business is leaving after almost 13 years. Gore-Coty joined Uber as a general manager in France in 2012, and worked his way up to become vice president of mobility for the Europe and Middle East region four years later, according to his LinkedIn profile. He was named senior vice president of delivery in 2021. "It's hard to imagine Uber without Pierre, because there ha
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-12 20:00:57
A little-known patent infringement lawsuit could have big implications for Uber — and potentially dozens of other companies. Carma Technology, a company formed in 2007 by serial entrepreneur and SOSV founder Sean O’Sullivan, filed a lawsuit earlier this year against Uber alleging the company infringed on five of its patents that are related to the system of matching riders (or packages) with capacity in vehicles. In other words, ride-sharing — a business Carma operated in some form for a decade
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-27 00:30:00
Today, I’m talking with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi. We recorded this conversation the day Uber announced a big set of product updates, including new options for shared rides and some features to make commuting easier and more predictable. Dara was in New York for all that, so he came to our studio, and we did this one together, which always makes for a great episode. As it happens, the traffic in New York that day was truly terrible — so we started by talking about how often Dara actually takes
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-30 01:00:00
Three years ago, as the pandemic caused chaos for companies big and small, Colgate-Palmolive’s chief supply chain officer Luciano Sieber orchestrated a “logistics blitz.” The result gave Sieber a better understanding of how Colgate-Palmolive moves its products around the world. But it stuck Sieber with another problem: too much data. About a year ago, Sieber says he found a solution to that problem with Uber Freight. The ride-hailing service’s long-running logistics and analytics arm has been
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-02 14:53:00
Memorial Day sales aren't just for tech shopping platforms: Uber One members can now take advantage of a massive new promo on the rideshare service this week. The first Uber One Member Days event started last Friday, May 16, and continue until this Friday, May 23. Uber One Member Days is structured very similarly to Amazon's various Prime Day sales -- paying members have access to rotating benefits over the course of the event, timed with Memorial Day, compounded with the usual perks of an Uber
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-02 16:47:00
Waymo and Uber will start offering robotaxi rides in Atlanta to select customers who earlier this year signed onto a waitlist. The move comes ahead of the companies’ public robotaxi launch this summer. Customers selected for early access will be notified in the Uber app and via email. Those who opt for the robotaxi rides will be encouraged to provide feedback during and after the ride. As an extra incentive, riders will receive $10 worth of Uber credits after their first Waymo ride. Atlanta is
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-04 14:00:12
Uber is entering India’s growing B2B logistics market by extending its partnership with the Indian government-backed nonprofit that aims to break the domination of the e-commerce duo Amazon and Walmart-backed Flipkart and widen digital commerce in the South Asian nation. On Monday, the ride-hailing giant announced it will soon launch its B2B logistics service through the Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) to help businesses on the network access on-demand logistics through Uber’s 1.4 mill
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-04 10:24:06
UK driverless cars unlikely until 2027 - but Uber says it's ready now 9 hours ago Share Save Zoe Kleinman • @zsk Technology editor Share Save BBC The specially adapted Uber taxi on the streets of London Uber has said it is "ready to go" now with driverless taxis in the UK - but the government has put back the date it expects to approve fully self-driving vehicles. The previous administration said fully autonomous cars were "set to be on roads by 2026", but the new government says it is now mo
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-04 05:06:00
Welcome back to Week in Review! We’ve got tons of news for you this week, including a hack at Coinbase; YC thinks Google is a ‘monopolist’; layoffs at Microsoft; and much more. Have a great weekend! Uh-oh: Coinbase says that customers’ personal information, including government-issued IDs, was stolen in a data breach. The hackers demanded $20 million from the company, CEO Brian Armstrong said in a post on X. Coinbase said it will not pay the hackers’ ransom. IPO time, baby: After filing confid
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-10 00:17:11
Uber is introducing a few new options for riders that it claims will save you money. These choices include Route Share, which can only be described as if Uber Pool and buses had a love child (though Uber has already tried to reinvent shuttle buses a few times). It offers pickups in certain spots "along busy corridors" every 20 minutes — though only during weekday rush hours. Basically, you can save "up to" 50 percent off UberX by treating Uber like a bus, walking to a pickup location and then g
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-09 21:40:17
Ride-hail and delivery giant Uber is introducing cheap, fixed-route rides along busy corridors during weekday commute hours in major U.S. cities — one solution to a world that feels, for most people, more expensive every day. Starting Wednesday, riders in Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, New York City, Philadelphia, and San Francisco will be able to save 50% off the price of an UberX trip by booking with Uber’s new “Route Share” feature. The company announced Route Share and other new featu
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-10 08:11:02
Uber is introducing a few new options for riders that it claims will save you money. These choices include Route Share, which can only be described as if Uber Pool and buses had a love child (though Uber has already tried to reinvent shuttle buses a few times). It offers pickups in certain spots "along busy corridors" every 20 minutes — though only during weekday rush hours. Basically, you can save "up to" 50 percent off UberX by treating Uber like a bus, walking to a pickup location and then g
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Ride-hail and delivery giant Uber is introducing cheap, fixed-route rides along busy corridors during weekday commute hours in major U.S. cities — one solution to a world that feels, for most people, more expensive every day. Starting Wednesday, riders in Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, New York City, Philadelphia, and San Francisco will be able to save 50% off the price of an UberX trip by booking with Uber’s new “Route Share” feature. The company announced Route Share and other new featu
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-10 12:08:29
Travelers walk past a sign pointing toward the Uber ride-share vehicle pickup area at Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles on Feb. 8, 2023. Uber is giving commuters new ways to travel and cut costs on frequent rides. The ride-hailing company on Wednesday announced a route share feature on its platform, prepaid ride passes and special deals week for UberOne members at its annual Go-Get showcase. Uber's new features come as the company accelerates its leadership position in the ride
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-10 12:00:00
If you're an Uber One member, you'll be able to take advantage of a massive new promo. The first Uber One Member Days event will run from Friday, May 16, to Friday, May 23, to coincide with Memorial Day sales on other tech shopping platforms. Uber One Member Days is structured very similarly to Amazon's various Prime Day sales -- paying members will have access to rotating benefits over the course of the event, timed with Memorial Day, compounded with the usual perks of an Uber One membership.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-10 12:00:05
Table of Contents Uber and Volkswagen Will Soon Let You Hop in a Shared Self-Driving Ride Hot on the heels of their partnership announcement, Uber and Volkswagen will soon be launching shared autonomous rides, the companies said Wednesday. The initiative is slated to kick off in Los Angeles in 2026. Riders will be able to hail a fully electric, self-driving ride aboard the ID Buzz AD minivan. In April, the companies said they'll be deploying thousands of the minivans in "multiple" US cities ov
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-10 12:00:00
is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Uber announced a new type of ride that travels along a set route, comes every 20 minutes, includes up to two other passengers, and costs up to 50 percent less than an UberX ride. In other words, a bus. For years, Uber and its smaller rival Lyft have been gently mocked online for occasionally releasing products that closely
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-10 12:00:00
Three years ago, I wrote about the Amazonification of Uber, an evolution of the transportation company into a closed business loop that feeds customers back into other Uber channels. At the time, the focus was on how Uber creates customer stickiness by, for example, actively cross-selling food delivery customers into grocery, and grocery into alcohol, and then alcohol back into mobility. Today, Uber appears to be moving beyond its focus on transportation and working to become a convenient super
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-10 12:00:00
Ride-hail and delivery giant Uber is introducing cheap, fixed-route rides along busy corridors during weekday commute hours in major U.S. cities – one solution to a world that feels, for most people, more expensive everyday. Starting Wednesday, riders in Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, New York City, Philadelphia, and San Francisco will be able to save 50% off the price of an UberX trip by booking with Uber’s new “Route Share” feature. The company announced Route Share and other new featur
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-15 03:00:00
is editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of the Decoder podcast , and co-host of The Vergecast We’re doing something a little different on today’s episode of Decoder. I asked my friend John Gruber, of the website Daring Fireball, to come on the show and talk about the future of Apple — and, importantly, the App Store. Gruber and I have been friends for over a decade now. Daring Fireball was one of the first and most influential Apple blogs around, and he has more insight into Apple, its culture,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-16 04:40:01
A starry sky can be stunning—even inside a hospital emergency room. But instead of celestial bodies sparkling in the night, doctors in South Korea were gazing at bright brain lesions punctuating a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan. The resulting pattern, called a "starry sky," meant that their 57-year-old patient had a dangerous form of tuberculosis. The doctors report the case in this week's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. The man had previously been treated for the infectio
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-16 20:35:00
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Remember last week when Aurora met a major milestone — just squeaking by under its own deadline — and launched a driverless self-driving truck service? Welp, this week Aurora made headlines again, but for a surprising change in leadership. Co-founder Sterling Anderson, who has been chief product officer, is resigning from his posi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-18 12:52:43
There’s a new perk awaiting Apple Card holders this week. Also, one reason to pay for phone service with Apple Card is going away. Apple is notifying Apple Card holders about a new promotion this week that unlocks six months of Uber One membership at no cost. The extended free trial period includes Uber One perks like $0 delivery fees with Uber Eats, 6% back in credits with Uber Rides, and up to 10% off delivery and pickup orders. Apple Card holders can sign up for the extended Uber One free t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-18 16:49:39
Sterling Anderson, a veteran of the nascent autonomous vehicle sector and co-founder of Aurora, is resigning just a week after the company launched its commercial self-driving truck service in Texas. Anderson held the chief product officer position at Aurora. The resignation was posted in a regulatory filing along with the company’s first-quarter earnings report. His resignation will go into effect June 1. He will leave the board August 31. The company said in the filing that his resignation f
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-19 04:23:15
TL;DR A YouTuber managed to get their hands on what appears to be a Nintendo Switch 2 motherboard. The console is said to run on an NVIDIA SoC that’s almost twice as big as the previous Tegra chip. It’s believed the Switch 2 should perform similarly to a Steam Deck in handheld mode. In April, Nintendo held a Direct event where it revealed many of the specs for the Switch 2. However, there were still plenty of questions left unanswered after the stream, particularly with the hardware. A new le
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About GovEagle We build an AI‑powered platform that helps government contractors draft proposals faster and more securely. Our stack: Python micro‑services, Celery workers, Redis, Kubernetes, and LLM integrations in AWS GovCloud & Azure GovCloud. **The Gig (1 Month, ≈ 20 hrs/week)** Help us hit a strict uptime & latency SLA by auditing our infrastructure and knocking out the highest‑impact fixes within four weeks. What You’ll Tackle Reliability audit of K8s workloads, Celery queues, Redis c
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