Chicago-based firm boycotts Uber on ethical grounds

New York

WITH everything else that's going on at Uber Technologies Inc this week, there is another sign of trouble brewing. A small project management firm has stopped reimbursing its employees for Uber rides, becoming possibly the first company to boycott the app on ethical concerns.

For Jason Fried, chief executive officer and founder of Chicago-based Basecamp, deleting Uber was an easy decision, and he did not need to wait for the results of an investigation by former US Attorney General Eric Holder to do it.