Uber CEO says his time moonlighting as a driver showed him the company didn't pay enough attention to its drivers. It sparked an all-hands called 'Why we suck.'

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Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says his time moonlighting as a delivery worker and driver showed him the company "didn't take pride in the driver product."

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Uber bans most under 25s from driving for the company in California because of rising insurance costs

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Uber said it allow under-25s who are currently signed up to continuing driving for the company, however.

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Uber Raises Minimum Driving Age to 25 in California to Combat Rising Insurance Costs

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Uber introduced a new age requirement for its California drivers on Thursday in response to rising commercial and auto insurance rates. The company said that moving forward, it will only allow people 25 years and older to transport passengers, but the rules won’t apply to Uber Eats delivery drivers.

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Court Finds That Teenage Hackers Were Central to Data Breaches of Uber, Nvidia, and Rockstar Games

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It’s official: a band of British teenagers managed to hack some of the biggest companies on the planet last year, and they did it all using fairly basic hacking techniques.

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Big Tech salaries revealed: This is what developers, engineers, and product managers make at Google, Apple, Meta, and Amazon

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Business Insider analyzed salary data for workers at top tech companies.

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Elon Musk's X is Testing User Verification That Requires Government ID

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X (the social media site formerly known as Twitter) is in the process of launching a new identity verification feature that could prove controversial.

Uber CEO's most nightmarish experience as a driver came when he was delivering food and couldn't figure out the 'maze of apartment complexes'

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Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said that he got lost when he was moonlighting as a delivery driver for his company.

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Tech's broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable. Ubers cost as much as taxis. And the cloud is no longer cheap.

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Jim Carrey in a scene from the film 'The Cable Guy', 1996.

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Mark Cuban passed on Uber when it was worth $10 million or less. He missed out on billions of dollars in profits.

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Mark Cuban.

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Uber and Lyft Could Leave Minneapolis Over $0.51

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Uber and Lyft threatened to leave Minneapolis after the city council approved a minimum wage for drivers that would force the tech companies to pay drivers $1.40 per mile and $0.51 per minute during rides. The ordinance, which passed the Council 7-5 on Thursday, could still be vetoed by Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey,…

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