US sues Uber, alleges disability discrimination, impermissible surchargesThe United States government has filed a lawsuit against Uber Technologies. The suit alleges that the ride-sharing company discriminates ag...
11 Sep, 2025, 11.20 PM IST
Quick commerce trade-off; Google still wants engineersQuick commerce is gaining popularity at the expense of sales in other retail channels. This and more in today’s ETtech Top 5.
05 Jun, 2025, 08.00 PM IST
Pixel moves to India; A91's largest fundIn the wake of US tariffs, Google is shifting Pixel manufacturing from Vietnam to India. This and more in today’s ETtech Top 5.
22 Apr, 2025, 07.55 PM IST
US FTC sues Uber over allegedly deceptive practices in subscription serviceThe US Federal Trade Commission has sued Uber, alleging it enrolled customers in its Uber One subscription without consent and made cancell...
22 Apr, 2025, 11.16 AM IST
Top tech and startup stories this weekWelcome to a new edition of ETtech Unwrapped – our weekend newsletter packed with the most important stories this week. Let’s take a look.
22 Mar, 2025, 08.17 AM IST
Court rules against Uber in major win for California workersUber Technologies Inc must face a California lawsuit claiming it should have covered UberEats drivers' work-related expenses, the state's t...
18 Jul, 2023, 07.54 AM IST
North Korea’s crypto-nukes & this week's top tech storiesYears of crippling economic sanctions and pressure from governments in the neighbourhood (mainly China) have forced North Korea to come up ...
16 Oct, 2022, 12.00 PM IST
Draft data bill may relax local storage rules; Amazon sues consumer protection bodyProvisions over data localisation in the previous draft of the PDP Bill — withdrawn earlier this year — that mandated certain types of data...
10 Oct, 2022, 07.37 AM IST
US: 550 women sue Uber for sexual assaults by driversThe women said in their complaint that they were kidnapped, sexually assaulted, sexually battered, raped, falsely imprisoned, stalked, hara...
15 Jul, 2022, 06.05 PM IST
Lyft, Uber to defend drivers sued under Texas abortion lawTexas has banned abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, but has left it to private parties to sue to enforce the law. The U.S. Supreme Cour...
04 Sep, 2021, 11.57 PM IST
Did Uber steal the driverless future from Google?Self-driving technology has become a fixation for Kalanick. Developing a driverless car, he’s often said, is “existential” to Uber.
18 Mar, 2017, 12.03 PM IST
View: What Google hopes to gain by suing UberGoogle is an Uber investor, and it would have been unlikely to sue one of its portfolio companies without thinking things through.
26 Feb, 2017, 03.19 PM IST
10 things in tech you need to know todayTech enthusiast alert! Here's the tech news you need to know this week.
02 Sep, 2015, 02.41 PM IST
Uber seeks dismissal of US lawsuit by Indian rape victim"Plaintiff's counsel has chosen to sue only Uber Technologies, which never had any relationship with Yadav, the alleged assailant," Uber sa...
07 Apr, 2015, 10.59 PM IST
Uber rape case: Victim seeks Rs 100 crore as compensationThe woman allegedly raped by a driver for Uber is demanding a hefty payout from the taxi app which is valued at $40 billion (Rs 2.5 lakh cr...
28 Jan, 2015, 08.46 PM IST
Uber cab rape case: Victim to sue firm in USA prominent New York-based lawyer has been hired to represent the 25-year-old woman allegedly raped by an Uber driver in New Delhi.
17 Jan, 2015, 04.34 AM IST
Why banning Uber and other such apps is not the solutionThe market is the ultimate leveller. All the people shouting on television demanding a service be banned will probably be chauffeur-driven ...
11 Dec, 2014, 10.19 AM IST