Uber Sways Regulators With Old School Lobbying Tactics

"Corporations are people, my friend," Mitt Romney famously quipped during his presidential campaign. Like flesh and blood people, corporations have the right to donate money to politicians and lobby for whatever causes they favor. And in the case of Uber, the cause it favors is ... Uber.The ride sharing service built a formidable lobbying team and has become masterful at using social media to rattle the cages of politicians and regulators when it believes its interests are threatened, accordi