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This company has to change: New Uber CEO
San Francisco, Aug 31 (IANS) Ride-hailing app Uber’s new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi met the embattled start-up’s employees for the first time and said the company needs to change to go to the next level.
“This company has to change. What got us here is not what’s going to get us to the next level,” the Uber Communications team posted on Twitter tagging the new CEO in the tweet.
Khosrowshahi said that he would assume his post from September 5, CNN reported.
It took Uber’s board nearly 70 days to settle on a new CEO after the resignation of its co-founder and former CEO Travis Kalanick.
Kalanick was in attendance at the meeting. Khosrowshahi previously described his relationship with the brash founder as “budding”.
According to Uber sources, Iranian-origin Khosrowshahi was not among those reported to have been in the running. The list included Jeff Immelt, the former CEO of General Electric (GE), and Meg Whitman, the head of Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
However, Whitman said in June that she would not move to Uber and Immelt pulled out of the race earlier on Sunday because of problems with the San Francisco-based company’s board, the sources said.
Khosrowshahi took the helm of Expedia when it spun out of InterActiveCorp’s (IAC) IAC Travel division in 2005. He previously served as IAC Travel’s CEO as well as IAC’s chief financial officer.
Uber has been without a chief financial officer since 2015 and the company’s head of finance left the company at the end of May.
As Uber’s new CEO, Khosrowshahi will face a big job, including repairing the company’s internal culture, navigating legal battles and reducing its financial losses, CNN quoted the company sources as saying.
Last week, Uber said its sales reached $1.75 billion in the second quarter, up 17 per cent from the previous quarter.
–IANS
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Apple is giving a huge discount on its gadgets: Details inside
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Amazon Summer Sale May 2022: Discount offer on iPhone 13
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Features of Apple iPhone 13
The iPhone is powered by an A15 Bionic processor with 6 core CPU. Apart from this, it has 16 core neural engines. With the iPhone 13, up to 512 GB of storage will be available. The iPhone 13 has a 6.1-inch Retina XDR display with 1000 nits brightness.
The iPhone 13 has a 12-megapixel dual rear camera setup. This time a new wide-angle camera has been given, whose aperture is f/1.6. With this, there is support for sensor optical stabilisation. Night mode has been made better than before. The second lens is also 12 megapixels ultra-wide and has an aperture of f/2.4.