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Stellantis is selling its car-sharing business Free2Move to a German private equity firm as part of a plan to boost profitability.

Wall Street analysts are still pounding the table on McDonald's, Oracle, and Uber even as all three sink toward 52-week lows, but each stock tells a completely different story about why the gap between price and target has grown so wide.

Investors expect Tesla's robotaxi business to render Uber obsolete.

Skybridge Capital founder Anthony Scaramucci says Donald Trump’s meme coin activity poisoned public trust in crypto at exactly the wrong moment, even as he sees Bitcoin reaching a $10 trillion market cap. How Trump ‘Karate Chopped’ Crypto’s Momentum Scaramucci made...

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Paramount Skydance, Uber and Stem fell to fresh annual lows on Monday amid growing regulatory, competitive, and financial concerns.

Uber Technologies is showing unusually high put options volume today ahead of Q2 earnings due out on Aug. 5. The strike price is over 18% below today's price and could be initiated by short-put sellers.

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Earlier this month, Foot Locker, Inc. announced a partnership bringing Foot Locker, Kids Foot Locker, and Champs Sports to the Uber Eats app for on-demand and scheduled delivery from more than 1,000 U.S. locations. At the same time, tensions with Waymo over robotaxi operations and regulation, including Waymo’s plan to enter key cities independently, raise fresh questions about Uber’s path in autonomous mobility. We’ll now examine how the potential breakup with Waymo could reshape Uber’s...

The Financial Times reported that the self-driving car company has discussed internally whether to leave its existing agreements with the ride-hailing company.

Lyft Inc. (NASDAQ:LYFT) reportedly faces multi-billion-dollar liabilities from its legal challenges due to alleged sexual assault claims, according to short-seller Bleecker Street Research, which announced that it was shorting the ride-hailing company. Lyft Faces Thousands of Cases According to the short-seller’s research report released on Thursday, Lyft faces an estimated $1.3 billion to $2.7 billion in potential exposure stemming from consolidated rideshare sexual assault litigation. Bleecker

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.

Uber is leaning into delivery services with its acquisition of Delivery Hero. Plus, GE Aerospace is having a hard time sourcing materials.

Stripe is reportedly circling PayPal in a deal that could end a frustrating run for the fintech giant, but is it a good enough deal?

Oil prices, however, eased on Friday amid hopes that Pakistan could help mediate talks between the U.S. and Iran.

The reported split could reshape the robotaxi race as Waymo looks to expand independently and Uber faces fresh questions over its autonomous vehicle strategy.

Investing.com -- Uber Technologies (NYSE: UBER) shares skidded 4% on Friday, with losses accelerating in the final hour of trading following a revealing Financial Times report that Alphabet’s Waymo is eyeing the exit ramp on their alliance. According to the report, the self-driving car company is holding internal discussions about terminating its current agreements with the ride-hailing giant, which presently include joint operations in Austin and Atlanta. The Breakdown Uber has confirmed the fr

Uber just cut a chunk of its customer service workforce in the name of AI efficiency, and it is far from alone. The real question is whether these scattered layoffs signal the early edge of a wave that could reshape employment across entire industries.

European carmakers like BMW, Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz have continued to struggle significantly to roll out commercial robotaxi fleets, unlike Chinese companies, but why?View on euronews

Uber’s ex-CEO announced a funding round for his latest venture that includes backing from Andreessen Horowitz and Uber.

↗️ Intel (INTC): Shares climbed premarket after the chipmaker reported quarterly revenue well above analyst estimates after hours yesterday. ↗️ SAP SE (SAP): Shares in the German software company rose after it reported higher quarterly revenue from its cloud business.

It may have found itself in the right place at the right time.

Uber is taking a unique approach to the autonomous driving revolution.

A U.S. District Judge granted Uber and Lyft an injunction against a New York City law on driver deactivations. The ruling temporarily blocks new rules that would have limited how the platforms can remove drivers from their apps. The decision affects Uber Technologies' flexibility in managing driver relations and safety policies in a key market. For investors following Uber Technologies (NYSE:UBER), this legal ruling relates directly to how the company runs its core ride hailing business in...

Company links layoffs to AI efficiency for the first time while continuing to hire for robotaxi engineering roles.

The funding for Travis Kalanick's Atoms was led by Andreessen Horowitz and included support from Uber, Kalanick's previous venture.

Company targets customer service costs after slowing hiring

Uber Trims Workforce Again as AI Takes a Bigger Role

A new Government Accountability Office report commissioned by Sen. Bernie Sanders finds the number of Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) workers relying on federal food and health assistance has nearly tripled since 2020, even as the company disclosed plans to spend $200 billion on artificial intelligence infrastructure in 2026. The GAO reviewed enrollment data from 11 states representing ... Amazon Workers on Food Stamps Nearly Tripled, While Company Spends $200 Billion on AI

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