Comment on Uber's pile-up of disasters

The smartest insight and analysis, from all perspectives, rounded up from around the web: "Uber was already off to a bad start in 2017, but the year is getting worse by the day for the $69 billion ride-hailing company," said Biz Carson at Business Insider. After losing more than 200,000 users in January to the #Delete​Uber movement, which formed in response to allegations that the company tried to profit from a travel ban protest, Uber "has been pummeled by a seemingly never-ending barrage of bad news." This week, Uber briefly halted its self-driving car tests after a crash in Arizona, and it had to address a report about its executives going to an escort-karaoke bar in Seoul, even as it struggled to contain the damage from recent allegations of widespread sexual harassment.