Tag: Uber

NTD Business Full Broadcast (June 25)

Used-car retailer CarMax hits record profits. Good news for people selling used cars: that market is hot, hot, hot! Amazon and Google under investigation for fake reviews on their sites. We ask an Amazon expert what challenges sellers are facing because of these fake reviews. Uber has to pay millions of dollars to thousands of drivers. It’s…


Uber Pays $3.4 Million for Seattle Gig Worker Leave Law Mistakes

SEATTLE—Uber has agreed to pay more than $3.4 million to 15,000 drivers after making mistakes related to Seattle’s pioneering paid sick leave law covering gig workers. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Seattle City Council last year temporarily extended sick and safe leave protections to gig workers, who previously didn’t qualify because many companies treat them…


Sharing a Ride to Health and Safety

We all hope for a breakthrough in the cure for cancer. Thankfully, scientists are making progress in the fight against this and many other devastating diseases. But on occasion, an innovation well outside of the health care sector can make a big difference in matters of life and death. And there is one such innovation…


Hey Uber, Kiss My Mask

Uber is no stranger to criticism and controversy, but now the ride-share company is not following Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines when it comes to requiring masks for vaccinated riders. I share my personal experience recently with Uber and their inability to explain the science behind their policy as well as their discrimination…


Uber Passenger Helps Single Mom Driver Clear Debt and Graduate College

An encounter with a generous Uber passenger changed driver Latonya Young’s fate, empowering her to realize her dream of graduating from college. Picking up passenger Kevin Esch from a soccer game three years ago in May 2018, Young opened up about wanting to return to school. But life was holding her back; a single mom…


Uber Passenger Helps Single Mom Driving the Taxi Clear Debt and Graduate College

An encounter with a generous Uber passenger changed driver Latonya Young’s fate, empowering her to realize her dream of graduating from college. Picking up passenger Kevin Esch from a soccer game three years ago in May 2018, Young opened up about wanting to return to school. But life was holding her back; a single mom…


Efforts to Vaccinate Americans Include Free Lyft, Uber Rides

President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced a series of efforts his administration hopes will boosting COVID-19 vaccination rates in the United States, including free or discounted Uber and Lyft rides for people traveling to get their jabs. “The feature will launch in the next two weeks and run until July 4,” the White House said,…


Why the Left Ignores the Killing of a Pakistani Immigrant Uber Driver

Commentary On March 23, Mohammad Anwar of Springfield, Virginia, a 66-year-old immigrant from Pakistan earning his living as an Uber Eats driver, was killed by two girls, ages 13 and 15. They carjacked Anwar, Tasered him and then, as he held on to the car (the source of his livelihood) in an attempt to stop…


YouTube Twins Plead Guilty to Felony Mayhem, Receive Plea Bargain

Twins whose shenanigans gained them YouTube fame have pleaded guilty to a number of charges related to a pair of fake robberies in Irvine. Alan and Alex Strokes pleaded guilty to the charges—which included misdemeanor false imprisonment and reporting false emergencies—in exchange for a plea bargain, the Orange County District Attorney’s office said March 31….


2 Teen Girls Charged With Murder of 66-Year-Old Uber Eats Driver in DC

Two teenage girls were charged with murder and carjacking in connection to the death of a 66-year-old Uber Eats driver in Washington, officials said. The girls, aged 13 and 15, were charged in a family court with felony murder while armed, reckless driving, and carjacking, according to Fox Baltimore. A police homicide detective, Chad Leo,…