New files show leaked by investigative journalists allege that Uber illegally used technology and lobbying tactics to expand the company from 2013 to 2017. Former CEO Travis Kalanick led the company before accepting a resignation request from shareholders in 2017 due to a string of scandals.
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#Uber #TravisKalanick #Business
Uber can blow me. Twice.
@NBC News:
-Files do not make allegations; people do.
-The first sentence of the description is a complete mess.
-I am available for proofreading and editing services should you wish to avoid such errors in the future.
Hope the company falls apart in flames
Yeah So what?! What do you think this is some place where you can and will be held accountable for your actions or the the actions of your group of lackey muscle 💪 🦧 apes goons or something else maybe like a Broad! They got the oldest ones on taxes for that exact reason not Murder
Now what about the Biden Crime Family’s illegal business practices worldwide?
The illegal, unregulated Taxi service broke laws? Shocking.
They been known about this it just hasn’t been talked about.
Lyft > uber
I don’t care,I like Uber. I paid $26 from the Minneapolis Airport to downtown because of Uber’s rates based on distance as opposed to a taxi driver who would have charged me at least $60 providing they didn’t purposely stop at every possible opportunity to keep the meter ticking.
this stock music you got playing is some mickey nursery rhyme stuff bruh fire your editor
Amazon is attacking Uber. That is what really going on.
If Uber can violate US laws and bribe US politicians, why not other countries. Unethical Business Enactment Routine (UBER)
Shut it down.
Illegal business practices?? So did a-hole Hunter Biden
Uber is criminal. They don’t even pay their drivers a living wage.
A business uses bad practices to expand? What’s new with that? Of course they won’t make excuses. It’s the past and they already got rich off of it.
I’ve long stopped supporting Uber due to their dishonest practices. I’ve stopped using Instacart for the same reasons. Both are corporate whores with no shame.
Maybe someone can get them to explain the 300 % night differential.. just yesterday .. it cost me $13 one way.. they wanted around $35 to go home
If only these investigators investigated something important. Smh.
Uber and Uber Eats always feels like scamming money from me. Overpriced to the extreme. It s been 3 months that I’ve been using other apps and, even if they are less fast/efficient than Uber/UberEat, I prefer them.
It’s hilarious the acrobatics these people must do to avoid giving us real news.
Classic American corporate SOP!
What major corporation isn’t guilty of using illegal business practices? 😂
Hey look, as long as they pay their government fines. Who cares how many citizens they may have harmed.
No kidding Sherlock! It wouldn’t take a genius to figure that out.
OMG a big corrupt business gets caught being corrupt!?! I hope they don’t look at the other 1.73 million(give or take) businesses in the US they might find some more 🐟 🐠 🎣
So what… they helped me when no one else would and helped me get back on my feet. Some laws make no sense.
The time has long been due to shut Uber down for good.
Some of these start ups are run by young sociopaths looking to make a quick buck. You almost can’t succeed in American business unless you are heartless.
when the guardian was boasting about having access to a treasure trove of evidence proving the illegal practices, and how some of the other supposed major newspapers would be doing the same according to how the guardian apparently divvied up the data, america had a few questions. why wouldnt the guardian or the post have properly or honestly reported yet on so much of the biden oligarchys ‘diplomacy’ rackets or more importantly how they are ‘protected’, or even the history of that politically polluted federally funded democrat dependence on illegal interference. and what types of donations to their outfit do they prefer to keep their selective interests operating. then the questions can begin regarding uber and their struggles against the entrenched taxi industry, and all the french lobbying and executive indifference, or even encouragement, to their drivers being routinely attacked.
Uber was so useful at the start when rides weren’t very expensive. Like why corporation they lost vision.
That whistle blower is as good as dead. Do i need to remind you of what happened to the panama paper reporter…..
It’s only illegal if someone agrees .
Of course it did..
Uber also send orders for bicycle deliveries too pick up and drop off outside of downtown area that is ⚠️ for bicycle too do and if you keep canceling orders that too far for bicycle or car drivers Uber soon deactivated your account
Yea like charging are credit cards when ever they feel like it.
Uber Eats has the potential to spread Covid all over the place. Never understood that concept during a pandemic.
Not just eats. But same concept. A pizza comes out the oven at about 200 degrees. By the time they box it up its 175 then covid lands on the 140 degree box that goes into your room temp hot bag. That gets it right into the customers hands at perfect temp for covid to spread thru out their house!
@@willc5512 Everything that comes through Uber Eats is not hot you know. Salads, drinks, etc.
Never taken an Uber I’ve paid for.
lmao so because they just think differently now that somehow excuses them from past behavior? They deserve the corporate death penalty.
The people that complain about driving for Uber being the worst are people who doesn’t understand how driving for Uber works.
They probably wasted more gas driving around looking for a fare.
You sit you get a fare; you sit you get a fair, rinse and repeat. Patience and savviness
Never made less than $900 in a week after expenses in my 4.5 years except during the pandemic. I’m on my 2nd new car all paid by Uber money
LIAR
What did they do that other companies don’t do thou?
Yep.. they make it look like drivers made more by trying to hide all their fees they took , meanwhile they saturated the market so only the company made profit
I drove and this is true…
How is this news. Wasn’t there a movie made about this a couple of years ago???
Democrats want their cut.
A woke, left business is unethical? No way.
Did NBC knows the origin of the term “banana republic”? A private company basically ruling a Country because They have business in it…Fast forward to 2022 and nothing change and nothing will be! well Climate will change though bud… Who cares?!
What surprise me is the people driving Their own car doing this if they sit down and calculate everything they will know they’re not making anything beside they making Uber reach day by day in my ward it’s simply modern day slavery
It cost 121.00 to get a Uber where I live..crazy..
You pull back the curtain on a lot of these companies and you will see all the exploitation, fraud and other schemes they do. My question/problem is why do the governments still let them exists?
So Shkreli did jail time for something less exploitative. This guy just gets to skip away and have a good life.
Ladies and gentlemen, if you wondering what the angle is:
Cabbies and powerful institutions are warring against the fact that anyone can become a cab driver, and NBC appears to be on the take.
As a cab driver we knew that
No body believe us
Just like how Las Vegas was made
Lol who is surprised?? We all know big corporations run on blood
We Can’t Wait to have such a wonderful person such as Donald J. Trump leading this nation again come Nov, #RedWave
Where is the Hunter Biden Story?
“Ask for forgiveness not permission”
Shocking.
Uber is perfect compared to big pharma yet the media wont cover it
What values
Still not making a profit
Uber is the worse company to work for. Starting with the poor drivers that are getting f by that corporation
I don’t really feel bad when bad things happen to customers of Uber since they’re just funding the problem
I’ll bet Trump had something to do with it.
Your values are profit, Uber.
Used to be a Postmates driver, and was making $30 a hour back then. Then Uber brought them out and now good luck making $10 a hour. The same orders that paid $25 now pays $6.50. They’re terrible and I’m happy I saved while I could so I don’t have to drive for them anymore. Horrible. I never used them as my main source of income either, that’s a bad idea.
At least with Microsoft, the EU has shown to be more concerned about the welfare of its citizens than the U.S.
Uber: “Hey, that jerk isn’t with us anymore! We’re a completely different company now!”
The company dumped a load of money to persuade voters in California not to pass a law that would have reigned them in.
yeah and they stood for a fraudulent crime ring too and gave em millions
Wow… why am I not surprised. They charge me 60 bucks for 10 mile ride while paying the driver 12 dollars.
Does this mean I’m getting my money back?
what about price fixing scheme dont you understand?
how many law abiding companies hire ex-CIA agents to collect dirt on competition and politicians?
all of them, they are all crooked…sigh
This is old news. It came out a year or more ago that they were using their software to operate in cities where they weren’t legal, and somehow programmed the software to detect inspectors and avoid them.
Wait wait wait… you’re telling me a company did something ILLEGAL?!? This is SHOCKING information. And nothing happens to them for doing something illegal?!? SHOCKING.
It’s believable. Any company that supports the kind of “social justice” movements that Uber does is lacking in integrity, and can therefore be expected to be untrustworthy.
Duh, you are 8 years late to this story.
I’ve done over 12,000 rides as a rideshare driver. I can testify there is no business model on earth that needs regulation more stringent and more quickly than the rideshare industry. The level of exploitation and manipulation that happens to drivers is absolutely staggering.
True Story, they literally steal from hard working people and get away with it. pure greed.
Cool, can you report on Facebook swinging elections by blocking and censoring content?
Glad mark cuban didn’t invest in this
Everyone Involved in the Spraying of the Skies. Need to be Charged with Crimes Against Humanity and Life itself.💯
Copied from a patriot: So our demented Joe Biden allows a million gallons of America’s oil reserve to be sold to China who does not need it. All they are doing is pumping the oil in their reserve storage. This means Biden weakens America to make China stronger so it will be easier for China to take over America. In my book that makes Biden a TRAITOR and he needs to go to prison.
Can’t wait for Uber to get a small fine and nothing else happening to them meanwhile nearly all of the public transit systems in the world are disrupted and defunded by their garbage service.
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Uber the Ugliest Company on earth! they take at least 50% of drivers money every trips INSANE
Why lie to yourself??? Basicly governments want their cut ,uber just gonna pay few millions and that’s it .
i wonder who own Uber
Thank you president Biden for lowering gas prices
Enter Amazon into the business and all of sudden there are lawsuits….
Drove for uber. Did not make a dime, actually lost money…
All the deductions from the earnings were services the company was making the drivers pay for were ridiculous…
Told them directly their program was horribly flawed and they dropped me like a hot potato by terminating my driving privileges saying driver complaints made my rating dip below their required ratings…all of which was a pile of horse manure…
and i will never use them or trust them ever again…
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a ploy to put out the Non-government controlled transportation. This is the adoption of socialism & socialist forced public transport soon.
Has no one seen Super Pumped??? The whole show is about this
“From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” Matthew 4:17
never
Let’s not even mention how they cheat drivers outta $ either by not paying peak hr bonuses or how they just coincidentally forget to pay the merchant who provides the food esp from sm mom n pop or Asian restaurants 🤔 yea I have all this documented🤷♂️🤣they still owe me 1200$ for 750 rides but I’ll never see it thanx to the tech help shuffle they love putting drivers thru..
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Lobbying= allowed corruption!
So since Uber’s values have not changed at all they’re going to keep making the same illegal business choices to get ahead.