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Saving The Uber Kalanick Built
Friday, June 23, 2017 - 2:03pm | 991Read More...Travis Kalanick's resignation as Uber's CEO represents a huge opportunity to reshape the company’s culture and tarnished reputation. It was Kalanick’s aggressive nature and talent that catapulted Uber's disruptive vision into the future of ride-hailing. It was this...
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Gauging The Economic Impact Of Uber
Thursday, June 22, 2017 - 2:42pm | 717Read More...Read this article on the Moneyball Economics website by clicking here. Uber has been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons over these past couple months. I’m sure you’ve seen or heard the headlines. From sexual harassment, to discrimination, to “Greyball” - software...
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A Message For Uber: You Can't Scale Bad Culture
Thursday, June 22, 2017 - 1:58pm | 614Read More...Loup Ventures analyst Doug Clinton has a message for Uber: “Bad culture doesn’t scale.” Clinton published a note Thursday detailing the fatal flaw in Uber, which recently took its latest victim: now-former CEO Travis Kalanick. A Unicorn Time Bomb Clinton noted that a poor work...
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Why Sheryl Sandberg Won't Leave Facebook For Uber
Thursday, June 22, 2017 - 11:27am | 490Read More...Sheryl Sandberg left her job as vice president of global sales and operations at Google (parent company, Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL)) to join Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) and serve as its chief operating officer in 2008. But perhaps more important, her job at Facebook provided the...
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Brash CEO Travis Kalanick Out At Uber
Wednesday, June 21, 2017 - 8:48am | 433Read More...Uber Co-Founder and CEO Travis Kalanick has seen his reputation take a hit as of late between sexual assault allegations, a work culture in complete disarray, an altercation with an Uber driver that showed his "pugnacious personality and short temper." As such, many speculated it was a...
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Tech CEOs Descend On The White House: Who Won't Be There?
Monday, June 19, 2017 - 12:20pm | 1136Read More...President Donald Trump’s newly-formed American Technology Council will meet Monday for the first time. Its members will dive straight into a broad range of issues, meant to develop new best practices for government regarding its use of information technology. The council’s agenda...
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San Francisco Asks: Have Uber And Lyft Become Public Nuisances?
Friday, June 16, 2017 - 8:21am | 635Read More...This article originally appeared on DriveWealth. It’s not hard to see why the ride-share industry has become so widely popular in the past few years. For all of us, the abilities to hail a car to our exact location and then pay directly from a mobile phone are just two of the major pulls to...
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Gadfly's Shira Ovide: We All Created The Uber Monster
Wednesday, June 14, 2017 - 8:52am | 544Read More...A new day, a new senior member of Uber Technologies leaving the company. On Tuesday, the billionaire co-founder of private equity giant TPG Capital and member of Uber's board David Bonderman announced his resignation after cracking a sexist joke -- during a meeting intended to crack down on...
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Is Uber's Faith In Travis Kalanick Faltering?
Monday, June 12, 2017 - 12:22pm | 545Read More...Uber’s board of directors is debating a three-month leave of absence for Uber founder CEO Travis Kalanick, reported the New York Times. The rumor comes as company leadership voted unanimously to adopt all recommendations made by former attorney general Eric Holder regarding improving the...
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The Bar For VeriFone Was Already Low This Year -- And Management Just Set It Lower
Friday, June 9, 2017 - 4:15pm | 464Read More...VeriFone Systems Inc (NYSE: PAY) shares are taking a beating on Friday following the release of its second-quarter results after the close of trading on Thursday. Expectations Go Lower And Lower ... BTIG in a note commented that management just set the bar lower for the year, even as it was...
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Uber's New Hires Could Help End PR Nightmares
Thursday, June 8, 2017 - 9:09am | 1184Read More...It would be an understatement to say Uber has had a bad year. Besides posting a $708 million loss on $3.4 billion in revenue in the first quarter, the company has been hit by scandal after scandal. Uber's public relations nightmares may end soon though, thanks to the hire of Frances Frei, a...
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What The New Gig Economy Bill Means For Workers, In Layman's Terms
Friday, May 26, 2017 - 3:35pm | 613Read More...“Gig workers” make up almost 34 percent of the workforce, and Recode expects this number to double in four years. Gig workers are the Uber drivers, AirBnB property owners, the freelance writers, the self-employed musicians — the workers who make their own schedule and find their...
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2 Sides To The Twilio Coin: JMP Securities Maintains Outperform Rating
Thursday, May 25, 2017 - 3:10pm | 351Read More...After attending day one of the developer conference SIGNAL in San Francisco held this week, JMP Securities is reiterating its Market Outperform rating on API provider Twilio, Inc (NYSE: TWLO). “The good news is that we believe Twilio is doing the right things to win in this category,”...
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Top 9 Places Professionals Want To Work
Thursday, May 18, 2017 - 3:02pm | 522Read More...Business networking site LinkedIn (parent company, Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) released its 2017 Top Companies List, an annual ranking of the top places its users would like to work. LinkedIn creates its list based on searches, views, job applications and engagement among the 500 million...
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Twilio's Potential Remains Vast, But Is Now The Right Time To Invest?
Tuesday, May 16, 2017 - 10:13am | 370Read More...Twilio Inc (NYSE: TWLO), one of the hottest IPOs of 2016, has seen its stock fall from its peak north of $70 per share in 2016 to its current level of near $25 per share. Most recently, Twilio's stock plummeted 30 percent in early May in reaction to a concerning earnings report and cautious...















