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Uber

Can TV take down the cult of the tech founder?

By Rani Molla

Why Hertz’s big Tesla deal is such a blockbuster

By Rebecca Heilweil

The battle for the future of “gig” work

Ride-sharing companies are pushing to make a third category of "independent" worker the law of the land. Drivers say the notion of independence is little more than a mirage.

By Sarah Jaffe

Biden’s labor secretary says gig workers should be considered employees

By Rani Molla

Trump issued a pardon for the man at the center of an epic fight between Google and Uber

By Theodore Schleifer

Live results for California’s Proposition 22 on ride-hailing drivers

By Rebecca Heilweil

Oh great, now we’re running out of bikes

By Rebecca Heilweil

DoorDash’s anti-worker tactics have backfired spectacularly

By Ian Millhiser

It’s not just passengers being assaulted in Ubers. Drivers are at risk, too.

By Anna North

Uber’s sexual assault report won’t hurt it as badly as other incidents

By Rani Molla

DoorDash and Uber Eats aren’t collecting sales tax on delivery fees in some states. That could be a problem.

By Shirin Ghaffary

A landmark law disrupted the gig economy in California. But what comes next for Uber drivers?

By Shirin Ghaffary and Alexia Fernández Campbell

How the tech unicorns of 2019 are doing on the stock market

By Rani Molla, Ryan Mark, and 1 more

Uber’s baffling claim that its drivers aren’t core to its business, explained

By Shirin Ghaffary

Austin’s failed attempt to regulate Uber and Lyft foreshadowed today’s controversies

By Matthew Zeitlin

Have we hit peak “tech” company?

By Rani Molla

Uber and Lyft say they don’t plan to reclassify their drivers as employees

By Shirin Ghaffary

Uber Eats doesn’t plan on eating its competition — for now

By Rani Molla

How Travis Kalanick’s foes tried using the New York Times to force him out of Uber

By Peter Kafka

Scooters may be a better business than Uber or Lyft, says Lime president Joe Kraus

By Eric Johnson

The Uber-Waymo dispute returns — this time in criminal court

By Theodore Schleifer

Uber lost an eye-popping $5 billion in a single quarter

By Theodore Schleifer

Mayor Pete Buttigieg talks about systemic racism, regulating tech, and the divided Democratic Party on Recode Decode

By Eric Johnson

Postmates has explored a sale to Uber or DoorDash instead of going public

By Theodore Schleifer and Jason Del Rey

Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon: the Code Conference interview (transcript)

By Eric Johnson

The high-stakes battle between Uber executives and drivers in California, explained

By Alexia Fernández Campbell

Uber had a terrible first day as a public company. It might not matter at all.

By Theodore Schleifer

SoftBank, the most powerful — and controversial — tech investor in Silicon Valley, explained

By Theodore Schleifer

Driver strikes didn’t break Uber — but they showed gig economy workers are mad

By Shirin Ghaffary

The Uber strike shows how drivers remain one of the company’s biggest liabilities

By Shirin Ghaffary

Tech is “flunking” the diversity test, says activist and venture capitalist Freada Kapor Klein

By Eric Johnson

Ford CTO Ken Washington explains why self-driving cars are such a hard tech problem

By Eric Johnson

Uber battles its own history in a historic IPO filing

By Rani Molla and Theodore Schleifer

Investing in Uber’s IPO means investing in Uber’s rivals

By Theodore Schleifer

Why companies like Lyft and Uber are going public without having profits

By Rani Molla

How New York City earned its reputation for being tough on tech

By Shirin Ghaffary

Lyft’s IPO filing shows how founders create their own supremacy in Silicon Valley

By Theodore Schleifer and Rani Molla

“I’m moving out of state”: How some Uber and Airbnb employees are trying to avoid California income tax

By Theodore Schleifer

Uber and Lyft are in a battle for user loyalty, and riders may win

By Rani Molla

Full Q&A: DoorDash CEO Tony Xu and COO Christopher Payne on Recode Decode

By Eric Johnson