Taxi app founder Travis Kalanick poised to join the Uber rich making £6.6BILLION from stock float

Taxi app founder Travis Kalanick poised to join the Uber rich making £6.6BILLION from stock float Kalanick owns 8.6% of Uber’s shares and will be a major winner in the listing Fellow founder Garrett Camp also stands to make around £4.6bn   By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 10:14 GMT, 13 April 2019 | … Read more

Drunk university student wakes up in Norwich rather than Newcastle

Drunk university student wakes up in Norwich rather than Newcastle after typing wrong postcode into his Uber app and falling asleep in back of the taxi – waking 260 miles away after five-hour trip with a £1,300 bill When the student woke up he was 250 miles off course and owed £1,307.64 He drunkenly put … Read more

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night’s TV: Ignorance is bliss in the world of ‘yoof’ YouTubers

Beauty Laid Bare Rating: Back In Time For The Corner Shop Rating: My taxi driver in Bristol last week gave me a sideways look, as if I were mad, when I asked which TV programmes he enjoyed. He didn’t own a television, he said. He had never owned a television, and he didn’t know anyone … Read more

A review of Mademoiselle hotel by Airelles in the ski resort of Val-d’Isère  

The uber-swanky ski resort of Val-d’Isère in the French Alps is awash with luxury accommodation options – but even here, in this snowy fun park for the rich and famous, new hotel Mademoiselle stands out. It is breathtakingly wonderful. An exquisite, elegant lodge in the style of an old seigneurial residence that I fall in … Read more

Health alert over takeaways as it emerges many use ‘dark kitchens’ using staff with no training

Health alert over online takeaways as it emerges many use unregulated ‘dark’ kitchens using staff with no training in food hygiene or allergies Takeaways like McDonald’s set up ‘dark kitchens’ which don’t have a restaurant Some operate by people without training and offer no allergen information The businesses are selling through social media such as … Read more

Will Uber FINALLY become profitable? Firm set to place advertising car-toppers on 1,000 vehicles

February 19, 2017: Susan Fowler publishes a blog post accusing Uber of enabling misogyny and a hostile culture toward women.  She says other women have been victims at the company and claims female site reliability engineers dropped from 25 percent out of 150 when she started, to 3 percent when she left. Uber appoints Liane … Read more

Ride-hailing trips create almost 70 percent more pollution than the modes of transit they displace

Ride-hailing trips create 96 percent MORE pollution by undercutting public transport and adding more cars to the road, study says The analysis uses publicly available data to assess the impact of ride-hailing It finds ride-hailing creates 69 percent more pollution than trips they displace Non-pooled ride-hailing trips usually equate to longer driving time Use of … Read more

London Uber driver reveals how he killed a man by removing his kidneys while working as a doctor

China has slaughtered thousands of its citizens to harvest organs such as hearts, lungs, kidneys, eyes and even skin for sale and to transplant into sick patients in hundreds of hospitals across the country. A landmark international investigation, published in full today, will accuse the Beijing government of covering up ‘crimes against humanity’ that have been … Read more