Tech & Innovation
Lyft is no better than UberAhead of its initial public offering, Lyft is done playing nice.
Updated July 21, 20224 min read
Ahead of its initial public offering, Lyft is done playing nice.
The modern company can work with Amazon, or work against it.
Buried by news of the US federal shutdown ending was a government decision that has staggering implications for Uber and companies like it.
Furloughed federal workers are turning to Uber, Lyft, and Airbnb as the longest government shutdown in US history drags on.
Amazon today (Jan. 23) unveiled Scout, a six-wheeled blue robot that delivers packages. The company said in its announcement that it’s field testing six Scout robots in a neighborhood of Snohomish County, Washington, during weekday daylight hours.
How do you get people to use cars less? Try making driving more expensive.
Chariot, the private mini-bus service owned by Ford, will shut down on Feb. 1, the company announced yesterday (Jan. 10). “In today’s mobility landscape, the wants and needs of customers and cities are changing rapidly,” Chariot CEO Dan Grossman wrote on the company’s blog. “We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause Chariot’s riders and our enterprise customers.”
Until this week, I didn’t know I had a superpower. Sure, my parents told me I was special, but at some point it became clear that I wasn’t special like Peter Parker or Jessica Jones. I resigned myself to being special but not super. Normal, really. Until WeWork told me I did have a superpower, and said it would help me unleash it.
If you were to ask iPhone users for their biggest gripes with Apple phones over the past few years, you’d hear a lot of complaints about battery life and the lack of a headphone jack.
Not everyone is a fan of self-driving cars.
Late December is a time for New Year’s resolutions, and Whole Foods Market has a big one: Be nicer to workers.
Netflix chief executive Reed Hastings is no longer the company’s top earner.
Thirty-two new “unicorns”—startups valued at $1 billion or more—were birthed in Silicon Valley this year. They included flavored nicotine seller Juul Labs (valuation: $38 billion), food-delivery service DoorDash ($4 billion), and sneaker company Allbirds ($1.4 billion).
To use the Airbnb of China, you might need to unlock a door with your face.
German shoppers looking to buy an older iPhone might be disappointed.
It’s the opposite of an early Christmas gift.
MoviePass is getting desperate.
A lot of the gifts under Americans’ Christmas trees this year likely arrived courtesy of Amazon Prime. But when Amazon releases its fourth-quarter financial figures early next year, we still may not get much insight into how much it made from its signature Prime membership program.
Nine months after one of Uber’s driverless cars killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona, the company is resuming tests of self-driving cars on US public streets.
Airbnb and Slack may each pursue a direct listing in 2019, the populist cousin of the initial public offering.
Employees at Juul Labs got some awkward news last week: no more vaping in the office.
France won’t wait on the rest of the European Union to start taxing big tech.
More people than ever are shopping online, which means more packages left on doorsteps are at risk of being stolen.