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The board of directors at Uber Technologies is meeting today to discuss CEO Travis Kalanick stepping aside for a period, according to reports published this morning by Reuters, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
Kalanick taking a leave of absence is one of several recommendations coming out of an internal report on Uber headed up by Eric Holder, who served as Attorney General during the Obama Administration. The Holder inquiry also recommends that Emil Michael, Uber's senior vice president of business, be asked to leave the company, according to the Times.
Uber hasn't publicized today's meeting and didn't respond to requests for comment.
It will be hard to implement the changes unless Kalanick himself goes along with them. Along with two close allies, Reuters reports, Kalanick has voting control of the company. Uber hasn't publicized today's meeting and didn't respond to requests for comment.
Source: ArsTechnica
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday June 12 2017, @05:42PM (1 child)
Uber hasn't publicized today's meeting and didn't respond to requests for comment.
I'm not really poking at our editor - I just thought it funny that sentence had to be repeated. I kinda assume that's how the article was written . . . Well, if Ars Technica made the mistake, it's been corrected on their site.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 12 2017, @06:36PM
But somebody made a mistake right?
Looks more the submitter than editor needs not calling out. Then again, a pat on the back for not simply cut and paste a single story.
Not that i even checked the unquoted source.
Journalist breaking the news, clearly wants to lock in the week's work plan, plus speculate enough for an itoluso.
Keep up the good work all round.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday June 12 2017, @06:01PM (2 children)
But disbanding the company completely would be a better approach, given how it's based on flouting laws and screwing people in the name of "disruption", hoping to cash in before the courts catch up.
Making an example would be good.
(Score: 2) by MrGuy on Monday June 12 2017, @06:41PM (1 child)
This isn't a regulatory action, or an enforcement action, or even a civil case. This is a review by the board of a company of recommendations recommended to them by an external consultant they commissioned. They're under no obligation to do anything with the result of the Holder investigation.
I'm no fan of Uber either (I've deleted my account and don't miss it in the slightest, and wish them nothing but the worst).
But who exactly are you calling on here to disband the company? Or to make an example of them? Their own board?
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday June 12 2017, @07:35PM
The moral duty of the board is to keep the company and its executives from breaking the law or hurting the workers and customers.
When it's rotten to the core, the proper ethical and humane thing to do it to put it down gently, salvage what you can, and get a healthy one.
Of course, the human thing to do, is to keep sucking as much benefit out of it, regardless of how many people get hurt.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by ikanreed on Monday June 12 2017, @06:21PM (3 children)
Us tech nerds. We're now all shitty wall-street journal types with laxer dress codes, and video games chat instead of sports at the water cooler.
I think we probably deserve to be wiped out.
(Score: 2, Informative) by jshmlr on Monday June 12 2017, @06:49PM (1 child)
Need nothing, then see what happens.
(Score: 3, Funny) by ikanreed on Monday June 12 2017, @06:56PM
But that doesn't involve killing people who modestly annoy me, thus is obviously the inferior solution.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday June 12 2017, @07:11PM
Money ruins everything. With a little universal basic income we could all be open source coders.
You might get your wish. [siliconangle.com]
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 12 2017, @07:59PM
A nomination for the most lame camera operator for something worth watching
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nft_HkUBIU8&index=4&list=PLLEUtp5eGr7DcknAkGa62w4LmyAfz37Au [youtube.com]