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>>> Uber Technologies Inc.


Private

Industry
Transportation,
delivery (commerce)

Founded March 2009; 9 years ago

Founders Travis Kalanick
Garrett Camp

Headquarters San Francisco, California, United States

Area served
Worldwide, 785 metropolitan areas[1]

Key people
Ronald Sugar (Chairman)
Dara Khosrowshahi (CEO)
Nelson Chai (CFO)
Thuan Pham (CTO)

Products Mobile app, website

Services
Vehicle for hire
Delivery (commerce)

Revenue Increase US$6.5 billion (2016)[2]

Net income
Decrease -US$2.8 billion(2016)[2]

Total assets
Increase US$15.7 billion (2016)
Decrease US$15.3 billion (2017)

Number of employees
12,000+[3]

Uber Technologies Inc. (doing business as Uber) is a peer-to-peer ridesharing, taxi cab, food delivery, bicycle-sharing, and transportation network company (TNC) headquartered in San Francisco, California, with operations in 785 metropolitan areas worldwide.[1] Its platforms can be accessed via its websites and mobile apps. Uber has been prominent in the sharing economy, so much so that the changes in industries as a result of it have been referred to as Uberisation.[4][5][6]

Uber has also been the subject of protests and legal actions, including a criminal investigation for its use, until March 2017, of Greyball software to avoid giving rides to regulators. The name "Uber" is a reference to the common (and somewhat colloquial) word uber, meaning "topmost" or "super", and having its origins in the German word über, cognate with over, meaning "above".[7]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uber