Sources detail Twitter after mass layoffs: key teams gutted, severance packages account for the WARN Act, and an ad hoc Google Docs directory of remaining staff
Hi 👋 - Third quarter earnings show that big tech … Rise & Shine ☀ : Twitter Layoffs: The lawsuit and Fears of misinformation Nikhil Subramaniam / Inc42 Media : Musk & Mayhem @Twitter Kristin Majcher /...
Uber signs with Yellow Cab SF and Flywheel Technologies to bring all of San Francisco's 1,075 taxis to its app in the coming months, after a similar deal in NYC
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DoorDash agrees to pay $5.3M to settle with San Francisco over allegations that it stiffed ~4,500 delivery workers out of the city's mandated employee benefits
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Uber says driver price-naming and destination previewing policies it introduced last year in California have hurt its business, and is considering ending both
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CA's Proposition 24 passes, and is set to expand and strengthen CA's recent privacy law, the CCPA, and create a Privacy Protection Agency for rule enforcement
the California Privacy Rights and Enforcement Act — passed by voters. Here's what publishers need know Aaron Holmes / Business Insider : California just passed a major privacy law that will make it ha...
Uber drivers in Southern California and Sacramento can now set their own fares, higher or lower than Uber's existing rates, in response to AB5 state law
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California regulatory agency for transportation formally rules that it considers Uber and Lyft drivers as employees of those companies under AB5 state law
OAKLAND, Calif. —The California Public Utilities Commission, the state government body responsible for licensing and regulating … Source: San Francisco Chronicle .
Food delivery service Munchery says it will end operations effective immediately and will refund any outstanding orders; Munchery had raised $125M+ from VCs
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Sidecar, an early ride-hailing player that shut down in 2015, is suing Uber, alleging that tactics like sending “fraudulent ride requests” were used against it
And What it Means for Innovation and Competition Rob Thubron / TechSpot : Defunct ride-sharing firm Sidecar sues Uber for using “illegal” market-dominating tactics Dara Kerr / CNET : Uber's ‘clandesti...
Waymo granted the first permit from California's DMV for driverless testing of autonomous cars on public roads, will start with limited tests in Silicon Valley
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