Mark Okerstrom is shifting from travel and tourism to trucking, looking to apply his digital commerce expertise to a new marketplace. The former Expedia Group CEO, who left the travel… Read More
Uber has seen a 60% to 70% decline in bookings in Seattle in the past few days and is preparing for an “absolute lockdown/shutdown” of the city lasting at least… Read More
Expedia Group CEO Mark Okerstrom and CFO Alan Pickerill have resigned abruptly from the Seattle-based online travel giant, and chairman Barry Diller is stepping in to run the company, citing… Read More
Tony West had a rough first day at Uber. Instead of setting up his office, getting familiar with the computer system, or locating the restroom, West was making calls to… Read More
Tony Donohoe, Expedia Inc.’s chief technology officer, is leaving the Bellevue, Wash.-based online travel giant after seven years as one of its key engineering leaders, according to an internal email… Read More
Riding in the back of an Uber is sometimes the best way to hear an opinion on just about anything, from music to politics to restaurants and more. Turns out… Read More
What’s your Uber rider rating? That was one of the questions that Uber’s board asked Dara Khosrowshahi during the interview process, the Uber CEO says during a ride-along with the Washington Post’s Geoffrey… Read More
Uber executives are providing an update on their plans to put flying cars in the air by 2020, with commercial rides beginning in 2023, but the most pointed comments from… Read More
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Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said he is personally overseeing a “top-to-bottom” audit of the company’s safety procedures for self-driving cars, after a vehicle hit and killed a pedestrian in Arizona… Read More
Dara Khosrowshahi has become one of the world’s most influential technology executives by spending more than a decade thinking about how people get around. It’s fitting, then, that The New… Read More
Pop up some more popcorn: Billionaire Elon Musk has gotten himself into another CEO vs. CEO challenge, this time with Uber’s Dara Khosrowshahi over air taxis. Uber and many other… Read More
The legal battle that threatened to upend Uber’s self-driving vehicle program is coming to an end. RELATED: Inside Uber’s self-driving tech center in Pittsburgh, a glimpse of the possible future… Read More
The last generation of kids who will need to learn to drive has already been born, as far as Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi is concerned. He’s incredibly bullish on self-driving… Read More
Former Orbitz CEO and longtime Seattle technology leader Barney Harford has been named the COO of Uber, marking yet another Seattle leader who has joined the embattled ride-hailing company. Former… Read More
Insisting that it is “changing the way we do business,” Uber announced Tuesday that it fired its chief security officer and another employee after revealing it paid the hackers behind… Read More
In his new role as Uber CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi admits that, among other things, he’s spent the first couple months “dealing with a few firefights” at the embattled ride-hailing company.… Read More
After Travis Kalanick resigned from Uber amid a series of sexual harassment and other scandals, investor Benchmark Capital filed an unorthodox lawsuit against the former CEO. Benchmark General Partner Sarah… Read More
Dara Khosrowshahi is headed overseas on a big trip in his relatively new role as Uber CEO. A paparazzi-style photograph sent in by a GeekWire tipster caught Khosrowshahi boarding a flight… Read More
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has retained his top ranking on Vanity Fair magazine’s annual “New Establishment” list which weighs the influence of personalities in technology, entertainment, business, media, politics and… Read More
Uber is changing how drivers are paid under its UberPool carpooling service, another indication of the ride-hailing giant’s efforts to provide better working conditions for drivers. Previously, drivers doing UberPool… Read More
It didn’t take long for Dara Khosrowshahi to face his first big leadership test as Uber’s new CEO. Less than one month after he left his CEO role at Expedia… Read More
New Expedia CEO Mark Okerstrom will make a $1 million annual base salary for his role as the company’s top executive, the same as his predecessor Dara Khosrowshahi. Expedia today… Read More
Dara Khosrowshahi is going to be a little busy trying to fix the things that need fixing at Uber. So the newly minted CEO of the ride-hailing giant decided he’d… Read More
Word to the wise: If you’re taking over as chief executive of one of the most talked-about companies in the world, be sure to tell those closest to you before… Read More
Expedia’s new CEO, Mark Okerstrom, doesn’t see tech and business as two disparate departments within the online travel giant. That was one of the takeaways from GeekWire’s interview with Okerstrom… Read More
Updated 2:20 p.m.: Mark Okerstrom confirmed in an email to employees that he is taking over as CEO and president of Expedia, dispelling rumors that he might follow Dara Khosrowshahi to… Read More
During his 12-year tenure as the public face of Expedia, Dara Khosrowshahi has been vocal about what makes for great leadership, how he’s navigated the company through challenges, and his ambitions… Read More
Outgoing Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi called leaving the online travel company to take over as Uber CEO one of the toughest decisions of his life this week. His words in… Read More
Dara Khosrowshahi, the longtime Expedia CEO, emailed employees of the travel giant this evening as news broke that he had accepted Uber’s offer to be its next chief executive. He called… Read More