{"id":2609,"date":"2015-06-05T08:00:44","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T12:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/?p=2609"},"modified":"2015-06-18T14:04:37","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T18:04:37","slug":"what-the-uber-carnegie-mellon-vs-uber-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/2015\/06\/05\/what-the-uber-carnegie-mellon-vs-uber-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"What The Uber!? Carnegie Mellon VS Uber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ubervscm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2610\" style=\"border: 0px none;\" title=\"ubervscm\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ubervscm.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"894\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ubervscm.png 894w, https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ubervscm-300x104.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 894px) 100vw, 894px\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s our first ever What The Uber Friday and we are excited to share this What The Uber moment with you today!<\/p>\n<p>We all know that Uber&#8217;s business etiquette could use a dose of compassion but this What The Uber story is just downright malicious! Towards the beginning of the 2015 year, Carnegie Mellon University and Uber happily announced a new strategic partnership. The agreement focused on Carnegie Mellon\u2019s NREC (National Robotics Engineering Center) aiding Uber with their research for driverless taxis while Uber would simultaneously boost Carnegie Mellon&#8217;s Robotics Engineering Labs through funding.<\/p>\n<p>Seems like a win for all, right?<\/p>\n<p>Wrong. Just about four months after this happy partnership was formed, Uber poached almost all of Carnegie Melon&#8217;s staff, using six figure signing bonuses and huge raises to hire away 40 of Carnegie Melons top researchers and scientists! Let&#8217;s face it nothing says partnership like &#8220;We are going to steal all your top workers but still benefit from attempting to have our name attached to your high end institution!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the end we can&#8217;t say that this Uber raid is much of a surprise, coming from the company that is notorious for its cut-throat business practices. After the many controversial Uber VS Lyft stories, Uber double crossing a partnership is probably considered small potatoes to CEO Travis Kalanick. In good news, Carnegie Mellon is staying optimistic and is actually trying to look at this situation in a positive light!<\/p>\n<p>If you have a What The Uber moment or want to share a What The Uber story please comment below or use one of the hashtags #WhatTheUber or #WTU (for short!) to get your story featured and shared on our social media channels!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>To read more on the Uber\/Carnegie Mellon scandal visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/is-uber-a-friend-or-foe-of-carnegie-mellon-in-robotics-1433084582\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wall Street Journal<\/a> for the full story.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s our first ever What The Uber Friday and we are excited to share this What The Uber moment with you today! We all know that Uber&#8217;s business etiquette could use a dose of compassion but this What The Uber story is just downright malicious! Towards the beginning of the 2015 year, Carnegie Mellon University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[116,5,3,115],"tags":[96,117,102,120,12,121,38,118,36,119],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2609"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2697,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609\/revisions\/2697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}