Uber's bad month keeps getting worse

In the past month, the San Francisco ride-hailing firm faced a customer boycott and sexual harassment allegations, which have devastated employee morale and steered users away from the service. Then it was slapped with a lawsuit Thursday, in which Waymo -- Google's self-driving car project -- alleged theft of trade secrets. While Uber has in the past been adept at weathering bad publicity, brand and industry analysts are less sure about the company's ability to emerge from the recent damaging events unscathed, particularly since Uber has pegged its future to self-driving cars. It's a remarkable turn of events for a company that had until recently plowed through any conflict on its path. The lawsuit landed as Uber tried to right itself after 200,000 customers deleted the app because its chief executive served on a council advising President Trump.