Alison Griswold

Uber has ended a troubled car leasing program for drivers with bad credit in New York.

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi isn’t afraid to set boundaries.

Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer appeared distraught at a US Senate hearing Wednesday (Nov. 8) on the unprecedented data breaches at the company during her tenure.

Lots of stores have price-matching policies. Target promises to match prices on identical items found for less at Target.com, certain online competitors, or in local print ads for up to 14 days after a purchase. Best Buy matches prices against a handful of online retailers and local competitors. Walmart will price match one item per customer per day, if a customer finds a lower price from one of 30 online retailers.

Amazon’s request for proposal for HQ2, its second North American headquarters, left a lot to the imagination.

Amazon received 238 bids to host its much-anticipated new headquarters, HQ2. Wondering if your town or city was among the applicants? Amazon declined to share a full list, so Quartz combed through media reports and contacted local and regional officials around North America to identify as many bids as possible.

Buried in the indictment of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and his business parter Richard Gates is a brief discussion of a condominium purchased by Manafort in the Soho neighborhood of Manhattan.

Last year, we recommended several DIY Halloween costume ideas for you, the cosmopolitan, always-connected participant in the new global economy. These included: Brexiteer, Davos Man, Mark Zuckerberg, and Sexy Mark Zuckerberg.

It’s a new Uber under CEO Dara Khosrowshahi.

There was a rather remarkable moment on Amazon’s third-quarter earnings call yesterday (Oct. 26) where Brian Olsavsky, the company’s chief financial officer, laid out everything Amazon thinks it can do with its $13.7 billion acquisition of Whole Foods Market.

When Managed by Q got started in 2014, no one wanted to hire employees.

Amazon has never particularly cared about hitting short-term earnings expectations. But when it does, investors go crazy.

Grubhub keeps delivering.

America is more divided than ever, except when it comes to the rumored tech backlash.

Uber is asking drivers to ante up for their future earnings.

Like a lot of drivers, Anthony Piemonte turned to Uber’s Xchange Leasing program because his credit was bad.

Online retailer Amazon wormed its way into the lives of Americans with books, then with e-books, then with Kindle, then with loads of stuff besides books, then with “free” shipping at Prime, then with personal assistant Alexa. Now the e-commerce giant is coming directly into your home, not by drone, but physically, by partnering with some of the nation’s largest apartment landlords.

At a panel discussion on fighting racial injustice last week, Denise Young Smith, Apple’s first-ever vice president of diversity and inclusion, made a surprising remark.

Margaretha Zelle, the dancer and famed German spy known by her stage name, “Mata Hari,” died 100 years ago today. She was executed by firing squad in France for espionage on Oct. 15, 1917. Her story lives on thanks to the propaganda efforts of the French government.

Hustler publisher (and longtime supporter of the Democratic party) Larry Flynt is offering $10 million in cash for information that could get Donald Trump impeached.

It feels like nothing is safe from Amazon.

Facebook is now eating the world, literally. The social media giant today unveiled plans to get into the food delivery business, by swallowing up online ordering pages from other food delivery companies.

In his second week as Uber’s chief executive, Dara Khosrowshahi met with drivers in San Francisco and had breakfast with groups of Uber employees concerned about diversity and company culture. In his fourth week, Khosrowshahi sat down with female engineering leads and other Uber women. In his fifth week, he met with more drivers, this time in London, where he had flown to confer with local regulators who in late September declined to renew Uber’s license to operate.

California is preparing to let companies test driverless cars without a human at the steering wheel.