Q&A with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi on Uber for Teens and potential issues, rising prices, profitability, Lyft, DoorDash, driving for Uber, AI, and more
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WeMeta: the median price per square meter of land in Decentraland has dropped from ~$45 in 2022 to $5 in 2023, as the hype around the metaverse has receded
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Lyft freezes all hiring in the US through the end of 2022 and began notifying job candidates about the freeze this week; Lyft's stock is down 68% year-to-date
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The Department of Defense hires Craig Martell, Lyft's head of machine learning, as the Pentagon's first chief digital and artificial intelligence officer
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A look at the remote work issues companies are facing, including who should shoulder tax costs and whether to cut salaries of staff leaving high-cost cities
Facebook considered tracking its employees. Lyft is making some workers move before April. Here's how big companies are wrestling with thorny work-from-home issues.
Uber and Lyft's potential franchise model is reminiscent of FedEx's similar move, when FedEx shifted from employing independent contractors to fleet operators
but Not Their Drivers by @SarahFKessler @OZM https://onezero.medium.com/... Damon Beres / @dlberes : NEW deep dive from @SarahFKessler on the franchise model that might save Uber and Lyft—but not thei...
Uber and Lyft's potential franchise model is reminiscent of FedEx's similar move, when FedEx shifted from employing independent contractors to fleet operators
A new ‘franchise’ model could help the companies without necessarily improving working conditions
Lyft joins Uber in saying it will pull out of California if forced to re-classify drivers as employees
The companies say they can't afford to classify drivers as employees — Lyft said it would shut down operations in California if forced to classify drivers as employees …
After Lyft quietly changed its paid leave policy for drivers, some say the process for getting sick pay is confusing and arduous
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Profile of Up & Go, a worker owned on-demand house cleaning service in New York, which takes only a 5% cut and lets its cleaners decide the design of the app
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