2026-03-04
New: Google will let Android users set up custom calling cards and share their live location in messages, catching up with features that Apple already offers to iPhone owners https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Bloomberg
Google adds new Android features, including custom calling cards, real-time location sharing in Google Messages, and luggage tracking with partner airlines
Google will let users of its Android mobile operating system set up custom calling cards and share their live location in messages …
2026-03-03
New: Google will let Android users set up custom calling cards and share their live location in messages, catching up with features that Apple already offers to iPhone owners https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Bloomberg
Google adds new Android features, including custom calling cards, real-time location sharing in Google Messages, and luggage tracking with partner airlines
Google will let users of its Android mobile operating system set up custom calling cards and share their live location in messages …
Meta AI's new shopping recommendations (in tests) are tailored to what Meta already knows about the user's location and to the gender it infers from their name, Bloomberg News found when testing the feature. Story here: https://www.bloomberg.com/... [image]
Bloomberg
Meta is testing a shopping research feature in its Meta AI chatbot on the web for select US users, positioning it against e-commerce tools in ChatGPT and Gemini
2026-02-19
NEW: Google and Apple are both adding music-focused generative AI features to their core consumer apps, a sign that more advanced AI tools are going mainstream 🎶Gemini can now create 30-second music tracks based on text, photos or video uploaded by users using Google DeepMind's
The Keyword
Google rolls out Lyria 3, a generative music model to make 30-second tracks with Nano Banana-generated cover art, in beta in the Gemini app in eight languages
The Gemini app now features our most advanced music generation model Lyria 3, empowering anyone to make 30-second tracks using text or images in beta.
2026-02-18
NEW: Google and Apple are both adding music-focused generative AI features to their core consumer apps, a sign that more advanced AI tools are going mainstream 🎶Gemini can now create 30-second music tracks based on text, photos or video uploaded by users using Google DeepMind's
The Keyword
Google rolls out Lyria 3, a generative music model that can make 30-second tracks with Nano Banana-made cover art, in beta in the Gemini app in eight languages
The Gemini app now features our most advanced music generation model Lyria 3, empowering anyone to make 30-second tracks using text or images in beta.
2025-12-09
NEW deep dive on AI browsers: OpenAI and Perplexity are betting on AI-first browsing. Legacy browsers from Google and Mozilla still have clear strengths. For now, the two categories of browsers are encouraging different kinds of user behavior, forcing app developers, web
Bloomberg
AI browsers, still far from making legacy browsers obsolete, are forcing web developers to rethink whether they are designing websites for humans or crawlers
A crop of under-baked new products is splitting the internet into two lanes, forcing website developers to rethink who their pages are for.
2025-08-15
DEEP DIVE: Meta's consumer-facing AI app offers an uneven experience, exposing the gap between Zuckerberg's bold ambitions and what the tech actually offers users With @HeySamantha @DanaWollman https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Bloomberg
Meta's standalone Meta AI app, launched in April 2025, offers an uneven experience, hallucinating and not personalizing replies despite access to Meta accounts
The Meta AI app offers an uneven experience, posing a sharp contrast to Mark Zuckerberg's lofty artificial intelligence ambitions. X: @natlungfy , @jackson198285 , and @markgurman ...
2025-07-23
New: Uber is piloting a new offering in the US (LA, SF, Detroit) that will match female riders and drivers, expanding access to a safety feature it already offers in some intl markets. There will be a new “Women Drivers” ride type on top of UberX, XL etc https://www.bloomberg.com/... [image]
Bloomberg
Uber plans to launch a pilot ride type to match female riders and drivers in LA, San Francisco, and Detroit over the next few weeks, called “Women Drivers”
Uber Technologies Inc. is piloting a new ride type in the US that will match female riders and drivers …
2025-07-22
Breaking: Fidji Simo, the outgoing Instacart chief executive officer headed to OpenAI, outlined her vision for the newly created role of CEO of applications ahead of her official start at the ChatGPT maker next month https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Wired
In her first note to staff, OpenAI's incoming CEO of Applications Fidji Simo lays out an optimistic vision for how AI will change the world
Ever since researchers began noticing a slowdown … Viktor Eriksson / PCWorld : ChatGPT interactions have more than doubled in just 6 months The Economic Times : Fidji Simo to head ...
2025-06-27
Breaking: Shares of Uber and Pony AI jumped in Thursday trading after the NYT's @MikeIsaac reported that Uber is in talks with founder Travis Kalanick to help fund his acquisition of the US arm of the Chinese self-driving firm https://www.bloomberg.com/...
New York Times
Sources: Uber is in talks with Travis Kalanick to help fund his acquisition of Pony.ai's US arm; Pony.ai has permits to operate robo taxis in the US and China
and Uber might help Natalie Lung / Bloomberg : Uber in Talks With Kalanick to Fund Pony.AI Bid, NYT Says Mike Isaac / The Straits Times : Uber in talks with founder to help buy US ...
2025-05-06
BREAKING: $UBER confirmed it is buying a 85% controlling stake in Alibaba-owned Turkish food and grocery delivery platform Trendyol Go for $700 million, in another example of global market consolidation in the food delivery industry. 8K filing: https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/ ...
CNBC
Filing: Uber acquires an 85% stake in Turkish food delivery platform Trendyol GO for ~$700M cash, set to close in H2 2025; Trendyol GO had 200M+ orders in 2024
Annie Palmer / CNBC :
2025-04-26
The Europe food delivery space has seen consolidation recently as a post-Covid slump in takeout demand has triggered cutthroat price wars, hurting profits. In Feb, Prosus agreed to buy Just Eat for $4.3b, making it the 4th largest player after $Uber, $Dash, China's Meituan
Financial Times
Deliveroo, which listed in London with a £7.6B valuation in 2021, says it received a buyout proposal from DoorDash that would value the company at £2.7B
Financial Times :
UK-based Deliveroo said it has got an offer from DoorDash for a $3.6 billion acquisition, marking a renewed attempt by the US company to expand into more overseas markets. https://www.bloomberg.com/... via @markets
Financial Times
Deliveroo, which listed in London with a £7.6B valuation in 2021, says it received a buyout proposal from DoorDash that would value the company at £2.7B
Financial Times :
Buying Deliveroo would help DoorDash (#1 in US) tap UK + urban areas in Europe. $DASH is in >30 countries including in Europe, Japan, Australia, but most of overseas markets are in more sparsely populated mkts like Sweden, Denmark, Iceland via Wolt deal https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Financial Times
Deliveroo, which listed in London with a £7.6B valuation in 2021, says it received a buyout proposal from DoorDash that would value the company at £2.7B
Financial Times :
2025-04-24
scoop: Lyft will begin dispatching standard taxis to some US riders in a first as it expands its features to compete with much-larger rival Uber. Rollout will begin in St. Louis on May 5 for riders who have opted in to taxis: spokesperson https://www.bloomberg.com/... via @technology
Bloomberg
Lyft plans to dispatch licensed taxis for the first time to US riders who have opted in, beginning in St. Louis on May 5; Uber has long let users hail taxis
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg :
2025-04-22
Uber denies FTC's claims, saying cancellation now takes <= 20s. Spokesman: Disappointed that FTC chose to move forward with this action; confident courts will agree that Uber One's sign-up & cancellation processes are clear, simple, and follow the letter and spirit of the law
CNBC
The US FTC sues Uber, claiming the company charged for Uber One without consent, made it difficult to cancel, and failed to deliver promised savings
The Federal Trade Commission on Monday sued Uber, accusing the ride-hailing and delivery company of deceptive billing and cancellation practices tied to its subscription service.
FTC describes a customer getting stuck in a loop in the Uber app when they tried to cancel Uber One within 48 hours of an upcoming billing date. They also say the switching colors and description of labels make it unclear for users who want to cancel. [image]
CNBC
The US FTC sues Uber, claiming the company charged for Uber One without consent, made it difficult to cancel, and failed to deliver promised savings
The Federal Trade Commission on Monday sued Uber, accusing the ride-hailing and delivery company of deceptive billing and cancellation practices tied to its subscription service.
2025-04-09
Nuro, the self-driving tech startup founded by two former Waymo engineers, announced a new funding round that it said will support its commercial expansion plans in additional US cities and internationally through 2027 https://www.bloomberg.com/... via @technology
TechCrunch
Autonomous delivery startup Nuro raised a $106M Series E at a $6B valuation, down from $8.6B in 2021 after its $600M Series D, taking its total funding to $2.2B
After months of hearty marketing efforts and large-scale technology demos across the U.S., Nuro has secured $106 million …
2025-03-17
Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herde is returning as CEO today, >1 year after handing reins to ex-Slack CEO Lidiane Jones. Co has seen/is seeing a spate of exec turnover. CFO left last week, following CMO's departure in Jan. CBO and CTO are leaving in Mar and June respectively
Bloomberg
Bumble rolls out new ID verification in the US, the UK, Australia, France, India, and six other markets, as founder Whitney Wolfe Herd returns as its CEO
Bumble Inc. is adding ID verification to its dating app alongside other new features, an attempt to court safety-conscious younger users …
2025-03-06
Dallas set to be another spot for commercial AV competition, with Uber-Avride launching there later this year and Lyft's planned launch w/ Mobileye in 2026. Uber's Dallas fleet will start small: Avride will only deploy some of the 100 US-made IONIQ 5s, some will be for testing
The Verge
Avride, a Yandex spinoff, partners with Hyundai to jointly develop fully driverless cars for ride hailing and aims to deploy 100 driverless Ioniq 5 SUVs in 2025
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge :