Investigation: Uber and Lyft lockouts for 800+ NYC drivers occurred almost every hour of every day, saving the companies hundreds of millions of dollars in pay
Even If You're Not One Johan / The Rideshare Guy : Weekly Roundup: Rideshare Drivers Use Teslas as Makeshift Robotaxis Katie Johnston / The Boston Globe : 'To me, this isn't a full...
Investigation: Uber and Lyft lockouts for 800+ NYC drivers occurred almost every hour of every day, saving the companies hundreds of millions of dollars in pay
One August morning in south Brooklyn, Mohamed Mohamed did what he's done almost every day for nine years: He woke up at 5 a.m. …
A list of some tech companies the SBA says have received PPP loans of more than $150K; Bird and Index Ventures say they are wrongly listed
Scooter companies, AV startups, LIDAR manufacturers among companies receiving PPP loans — Bird, the beleaguered e-scooter company …
Angry over critical coverage, tech figures discuss hitting back against journalists, on Twitter and invite-only Clubhouse, leading to harassment of NYT's Lorenz
chiefly journalism in the public interest. https://www.vice.com/... @jason : Fair warning: everything you say on #Clubhouse is being covertly recorded by journalists to weaponize a...
Angry over critical coverage, tech figures discuss hitting back against journalists, on Twitter and invite-only Clubhouse, leading to harassment of NYT's Lorenz
In leaked audio from an invite-only app, venture capitalists pondered everything they think is wrong with journalism.
Former JUMP employees blame the bikeshare company's downfall on Uber applying a software business mentality to a transportation business after acquiring it
One morning at the end of May, Mark Miretsky awoke in his San Francisco apartment and groggily browsed his phone. There was no rush to get up. Tweets: @a_w_gordon , @counternotion...
Former JUMP employees blame the bikeshare company's downfall on Uber applying a software business mentality to a transportation business after acquiring it
One morning at the end of May, Mark Miretsky awoke in his San Francisco apartment and groggily browsed his phone. There was no rush to get up. Tweets: @a_w_gordon , @counternotion...
Sources: at its current pace, Quibi will sign up fewer than 2M paying subscribers by the end of its first year, well under its original target of 7.4M
Two veteran executives with contrasting styles are launching Quibi, an on-the-go streaming service, during a pandemic
Sources: at its current pace, Quibi will sign up fewer than 2M paying subscribers by the end of its first year, well under its original target of 7.4M
Two veteran executives with contrasting styles are launching Quibi, an on-the-go streaming service, during a pandemic
After discussing the lack of action on Trump's posts with Mark Zuckerberg, civil rights leaders say they are “stunned by Mark's incomprehensible explanations”
and what are you standing for? https://www.cnbc.com/... Steve Kovach / @stevekovach : On CNBC, Color for Change's Rashad Robinson, who spoke with Mark Zuckerberg yesterday, said Zu...
On a call with Facebook employees Tuesday, Mark Zuckerberg stood firmly behind his decision to leave up President Trump's inflammatory posts
In a call with Facebook employees, who have protested the inaction on President Trump's messages, Mark Zuckerberg said his decision was “pretty thorough.”
Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs says it will no longer pursue its smart city project at Quayside in Toronto due to “unprecedented economic uncertainty”
Sidewalk Labs has announced it will no longer pursue its project at Quayside in Toronto. The company noted the decision was due to the current …
Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs says it will no longer pursue its smart city project at Quayside in Toronto due to “unprecedented economic uncertainty”
Sidewalk Labs has announced it will no longer pursue its project at Quayside in Toronto. The company noted the decision was due to the current …
Sources detail how popular email apps like Edison, Slice, and Cleanfox scrape users' inboxes, using harvested data to power market research products
The popular Edison email app, which is in the top 100 productivity apps on the Apple app store, scrapes users' email inboxes …
Lime to pilot AI-based technology in San Jose, CA which it claims warns riders when they are on a sidewalk 50% or more of the time
Dara Kerr / CNET :
Lime says it is laying off about 14% of its workforce, roughly 100 employees, and shuttering operations in 12 markets as it seeks to become profitable this year
Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios :
Uber, Postmates sue CA to block AB-5, days ahead of bill taking effect, say law unconstitutionally targets gig economy companies and benefits other industries
- Companies call labor rights measure unfair, unconstitutional — A.B. 5 will qualify many contractors for employment benefits
Source: Facebook held talks to acquire Fitbit but wanted to pay roughly half of the $2.1B that Google eventually agreed to pay
it has to be extremely valuable to Google. Of course, the acquisition can also affect that trust, if no lessons are learnt from Nest. https://twitter.com/... Luther Lowe / @lutherl...
Google can make a success of Fitbit if it can be managed as well as the integration of HTC's smartphone team, but it can also end up as a fiasco like Nest
The HTC acquisition went well, Nest did not — will this? — Google is buying Fitbit and the reasons why are both simple and complicated.
Google can make a success of Fitbit if it can be managed as well as the integration of HTC's smartphone team, but it can also end up as a fiasco like Nest
The HTC acquisition went well, Nest did not — will this? — Google is buying Fitbit and the reasons why are both simple and complicated.