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“We sit on the same table… the distance has probably allowed healing to happen,” Uber’s chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi told ETtech in an interview, when asked about his relationship with the San Francisco-based ride-hailing giant’s founder Travis Kalanick, who was replaced by the 54-year-old chief executive.“He was really hurt by what happened and he was very passionate about Uber... He's still passionate about the company even though he doesn't own a share…He is very happy about what's happened with Uber (now) and to…

Uber Technologies will keep a laser-sharp focus on its core mobility business in India, consolidate its market share and not be distracted with other offerings and services, according to CEO Dara Khosrowshahi. While rival Ola dabbles with multiple "shiny, new efforts and (an) IPO", Uber will continue to build its ride-hailing business which has immense potential for growth, he told ET in an exclusive interview.The 54-year old, who has steered Uber to profits of $1.1 billion globally in 2023, said the Indian arm was now a…

Happy Monday! Uber Technologies will be laser-focussed on its mobility business in India and consolidate its market share, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi told ET in an exclusive interview. More on this in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch.Also in the letter:■ Explained: The boardroom battle at Byju’s■ Accenture’s revenue bet on GenAI■ India’s first text-to-image generator Exclusive | While Ola taps new roads, our focus still ride-hailing: Uber CEO Dara KhosrowshahiIn an exclusive interview with ET, during a four-day trip to India,…

Dara Khosrowshahi, who took over as the chief executive of Uber Technologies in 2017 when the San Francisco-based mobility company was traversing its most controversial period, is now being hailed as tech’s newest turnaround chief. The Iran-born executive, who replaced Uber’s go-for-broke founder Travis Kalanick, has steered the company to profitability in a business which most experts thought would never make money. In a wide-ranging interview with ET’s Pranav Mukul, Samidha Sharma and Surabhi Agarwal, Khosrowshahi, who…

When Dr. Norman was taking a sabbatical at Howard University in 2015, she got a crash course in just how different access can be at a smaller institution, versus the national observatories she was used to. “I was going to look at these images that a collaboration of mine had recently gotten. These images are really big; each one was like a gigabyte. And if you’re going to do research, you have to reduce the data, get multiple images, stack the images.”But she ran into infrastructure roadblocks when she had trouble…