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Uber Cuts 23% of People Division as New President Takes Over

3 June 2026 at 15:00
Uber Technologies Inc. said it is cutting 23% of jobs in a division that includes human resources, recruitment, workplace facilities and culture, part of a move by the rideshare company’s newly promoted president Jill Hazelbaker to simplify team structure.

Uber headquarters in San Francisco, California, US, on Tuesday, July 23, 2024. Uber Technologies Inc. is scheduled to release earnings figures on August 6.

Prosus Gets Until Oct. 11 for Delivery Hero Sale After Uber Bid

The European Commission is planning to extend a critical deadline for Prosus NV to sell down a stake in Delivery Hero SE to October, buying the investor some meaningful time to thwart another possible takeover attempt of the food delivery service by Uber Technologies Inc.

The Delivery Hero headquarters in Berlin.

People are leaving a lot of weird stuff in their robotaxis

2 June 2026 at 13:00
Waymo autonomous vehicle

A unicorn Beanie Baby. A 15-pound green bowling ball. A pair of dentures.

These are just some of the items left behind in robotaxis in the past year, according to Uber's annual Lost and Found Index. For the first time, the company is expanding its annual of accounting of things forgotten in Uber vehicles to include self-driving cars because, for the first time, Uber has enough self-driving cars on its platform to matter.

Uber doesn't deploy its own robotaxis, but in the last few years it's become a clearinghouse for driverless car companies that want access to Uber's millions of customers. Here in the US, that includes Waymo (in Austin a …

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