I’ve been in an UberCab a few times — each time I’ve felt roughly 100 percent safer than I have in any taxi I’ve ever been in. Does that give UberCab the right to break laws? Of course not.

UberCab — which was recently renamed "Uber" to avoid the appearance of marketing itself as a taxi business — has shared the full contents of the cease and desist orders it received this week ...

Uber (formerly UberCab), an iPhone application that helps users find rides from limos and town cars, got into some legal trouble this week — city and state agencies from both San Francisco and ...

February 21, 2011 - 11:25 am Uber (formerly known as UberCab), the controversial, game-changing car booking service that is only available in San Francisco, will be launched in Europe.

Ubercab is currently only in San Francisco, but expect other cities to pop up on the map in the next 30 days. If you are in the bay area, they are doing 50% off rides on Saturday.

UberCab, an iPhone application that helps you call for a private driver, has raised $1.25 million from well-known backers — including “super angel” Chris Sacca, who previously tweeted about ...

Mike Walsh was busy trying to manage his doomed software company in 2009 when he agreed to take a 15 minute meeting with a little-known figure in the tech industry named Ryan Graves.

When seed venture firm First Round Capital first invested in 2010 in a startup called UberCab, many investors were skeptical. The ride-hailing company, now known as Uber Technologies Inc., was ...

Back in the late-mid-80s, South By Southwest was a humble music festival. Then someone -- possibly Al Gore -- invented the internet, Austin became a second Silicon Valley, and today, SXSW (as it's ...

So UberCab became Uber. Suddenly, it needed to own Uber.com. The problem: Uber.com was owned by Universal Music Group. The solution: Uber gave UMG a 2% stake in exchange for the domain.

UberCab — which shortened its name to Uber — was using technology to push a radical new urban vision, and it quickly became a poster child for Silicon Valley’s messianic vision.