The company Uber announced strong losses for another quarter, with its revenues significantly exceeding market estimates, leading to a 10% jump in the stock in the pre-conference trading of the American market. Specifically, the company announced a net loss of $2.6 billion for the second quarter of the year, of which $1.7 billion was attributed […]
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Tsipras on Uber: I don’t believe that there were unfair practices all over the world but the ND supported it for ideological reasons
The President of SYRIZA PS, Alexis Tsipras, launched a fierce attack on the government and personally on Mr. Mitsotakis, in a meeting he had with the Board of the Attica Taxi Drivers Union, on the occasion of the revelations about the international Uber corruption scandal and the attitude he had taken New Democracy as the […]
Former Turkish ambassador confirms he lobbied for Uber in Turkey
Namik Tan, Turkey’s former ambassador to the United States, confirmed allegations that Uber hired a company jointly run by him and the then head of the Turkish American Business Association for $35,000 a month for three months in 2016 to help in obtaining a license to operate in Turkey, news website T24 reported on Tuesday. […]
New round of political confrontation in France for Uber
The subject of intense political controversy in France is the issue of Uber, and in particular whether and to what extent Emmanuel Macron during the period 2014-2016, i.e. during the presidency of François Hollande of whom he was Minister of Economy, methodized the installation of the American multinational in France with often opaque procedures . […]
Lobbyist Mark McGann revealed he was a whistleblower about Uber’s practices
Lobbyist Mark McGann revealed to the Guardian that he was the whistleblower on Uber’s practices and the one behind the leak of thousands of internal documents of the American company to the British newspaper. McGann, who between 2014 and 2016 led efforts to expand the ride-hailing company into Europe, Africa and the Middle East, said […]
Uber Files: Investigation accuses Uber of adopting violent and even illegal methods to impose itself on the market
Uber was at the center of a scandal on Sunday after a massive investigation by journalists who accused it of “breaking the law” in the past and using violent methods to impose itself on the market, despite the reservations of politicians and taxi companies. “We have not justified and do not seek to justify behavior […]
The revelations about the privileged relations between Macron and Uber are causing a wave of indignation on the French left
“Secret” agreement against the violation of “all our rules”, “looting the country”: elected officials of the French left loudly denounced yesterday Sunday the relations of President Emmanuel Macron, during his time as Minister of Economy, with the company Uber, after press disclosures. As part of the “Uber Files”, an investigation based on thousands of internal […]
Uber files: How top politicians like Macron and European officials lobbied for the company
Thousands of leaked files have revealed how Uber approached top politicians and the lengths it went to avoid justice. The files, the BBC reports, detail the extensive help Uber received from leaders such as Emmanuel Macron and former EU commissioner Neelie Kroes. They also show how the former head of the taxi company personally ordered […]
The application of Uber showed a spectacular increase in tourist traffic in May in Greece
Extremely optimistic messages regarding the tourist traffic of the period emerge from the data of the use of the Uber application in Greece. Noting that almost two out of three users who visit Greece open their app, most of them when they land in our country, this year’s data compared to those of the pre-pandemic […]
Uber agreement with TAXI IT Association in Italy
(from left to right): Loreno Bittarelli, President of IT Taxi and Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO of Uber. IT Taxi, the largest Taxi Association in Italy, and Uber have reached a strategic partnership to digitize the taxi sector and make on-demand transportation available to millions of Italians. Following the pandemic and reduced demand for jobs, taxi drivers […]
