When Benchmark Capital distributed a letter this week about its lawsuit against former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, it was addressed to Uber's employees. But make no mistake: It wasn't written primarily for them. The letter quickly became a scavenger hunt for analysts, journalists, and investors trying to decode its meaning. Buried within it were clues as to how Uber's future might play out. Is there more to the Holder Report?

Uber has fired more than 20 people after an internal investigation into harassment claims. The taxi-app firm has been under fire over its treatment of women in the workplace since a former employee wrote a scathing blog post about her experience. The post prompted the company to launch two investigations. Uber said the sackings related to sexual harassment, bullying and issues about poor company culture. Uber has struggled with a series of controversies in recent months, including a backlash over aggressive corporate tactics and a lawsuit from Google-owner Alphabet over allegedly stolen technology for self-driving cars.

The companies had poured $8.6 million into a campaign to keep fingerprinting, which can be expensive and time-consuming, out of driver checks. The vote came after the City Council passed an ordinance in December that, among other rules for ride-sharing companies, required their drivers to undergo fingerprint-based background checks by February 1, 2017. Uber and Lyft announced after the results of Saturday's vote that they were set to suspend operations in Austin, the capital city of Texas, on the morning of May 9, 2016.

Uber's chief of human resources, Liane Hornsey, tells USA TODAY a 200-session listening tour of the company after allegations of pervasive sexism found employees concerned about pay and performance reviews, but not sexual harassment. Liane Hornsey took over as Uber's chief human resources officer in January, shortly before the company became mired in a series of scandals. She is seen here speaking with Uber's new head of diversity initiatives, Bernard Coleman III. SAN FRANCISCO -- After nearly five months of digging into Uber's internal culture, its new chief human resources officer says the ride-hailing company's treatment of women -- which gave it a public black eye after charges of persistent sexism and discrimination were detailed by a former employee -- is no worse at Uber than at other companies. "Wherever I have worked, I have seen things that are not great for women," Liane Hornsey told USA TODAY as she awaits the imminent release of an internal investigation into Uber's culture spurred by the revelations of former engineer Susan Fowler.