Lyft Uber and Lyft drivers were paid up to $100 to protest a bill that could make them employeesLos Angeles Times - By Johana BhuiyanFighting to stave off a bill that could force them to treat their workers as employees, Uber and Lyft last week deployed an unusual weapon: a promise of extra pay to drivers willing to lobby on their The
Lyft Uber and Lyft drivers swarm Sacramento as lawmakers advance gig workers’ rights billLos Angeles Times - Johana BhuiyanOn many mornings, Minda Aguhob, a Harvard-educated data scientist who started driving for Uber and Lyft five years ago as she struggled to find a job, opens her Uber app around 6 o’clock, hoping to hear
Amazon Web Services The power of Google and Amazon looms over tech IPOsLos Angeles Times - Gerrit De VynckAfter a years-long drought, a wave of technology startups — Uber, Lyft, Pinterest and more — are going public, evidence that the sector is thriving. But there’s a shadow hanging over almost all of them.
Apple Park How Jony Ive, Apple’s design guru, planned his own obsolescenceLos Angeles Times - Sam DeanJonathan Ive led Apple’s product design for decades, from the Technicolor iMac that revived the company’s fortunes in the late ’90s to the softly minimalist iPhone that turned Apple into one of the world’s
Technology Trump’s next tweet could come with a warning labelLos Angeles Times - Associated PressPresident Trump’s next tweet might come with a warning label. Starting Thursday, tweets that Twitter deems to involve matters of public interest but that violate the service’s rules, will be obscured a
Mark Zuckerberg Mark Zuckerberg to regulators: We need your help to protect electionsLos Angeles Times - Johana BhuiyanAs public trust in Facebook’s ability to wield its power responsibly has fractured in the face of a series of privacy breaches and other scandals, the company has been facing fresh calls for regulation
Wayfair Wayfair sold beds to furnish border camps. Its employees are walking out in protestLos Angeles Times - Sam DeanEmployees of the online furniture retailer Wayfair are planning a walkout on Wednesday to protest the company’s sale of over $200,000 in bedroom furniture to a detention center for migrant children in
Lyft To avoid California bill, Uber and other on-demand companies look to strike a dealLos Angeles Times - Johana BhuiyanFaced with a looming threat to their way of doing business, Uber, Lyft and other major on-demand companies are trying something they’ve historically been reluctant to do: seeking compromise. Anxious to
Amazon Walmart and Amazon want to see inside your house. Should you let them?Los Angeles Times - Sam DeanThe war for the e-commerce shopper is fought on the battlefield of convenience. One-click ordering, same-day delivery, automatic toilet paper refills: There’s no pain point so small someone won’t pay do
Apple Watch Apple, vulnerable to tariffs on Chinese goods, asks Trump administration to stopLos Angeles Times - BloombergApple Inc. urged the Trump administration not to proceed with tariffs of as much as 25% on a new slate of products imported from China, saying it would reduce the tech giant’s contribution to the U.S.
Facebook Why Facebook wants its own currency — and why that scares its criticsLos Angeles Times - Sam DeanAs one scandal after another has chipped away at trust in his company over the past three years, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has adopted a public pose of penitence, promising to take more responsibility
Facebook Facebook plans its own cryptocurrency, Libra, for 2 billion-plus usersLos Angeles Times - Associated PressFacebook already rules daily communication for more than two billion people around the world. Now it wants its own currency, too. The social network unveiled an ambitious plan Tuesday to create a new currency
Technology Bird buys Scoot — and a back door into San Francisco’s rental scooter marketLos Angeles Times - Sam DeanPerpetual gridlock in Los Angeles and San Francisco has inspired a booming industry of on-demand electric rental scooters, now a familiar sight whizzing along sidewalks and bike lanes in cities around
Lawmakers aim to rein in police use of facial recognitionLos Angeles Times - Sam DeanFacial recognition’s first blanket ban arrived in May, when San Francisco became the only city in the nation to bar police and other agencies from using the technology. Now the powerful software, which
Amid harassment complaints, YouTube says it will remove more white supremacist contentLos Angeles Times - Suhauna HussainOn Tuesday, the insults were “clearly hurtful,” but they did not violate YouTube rules. On Wednesday, they were part of “a pattern of egregious actions,” and as punishment, the company would suspend the
Google faces antitrust investigation by U.S. Justice DepartmentLos Angeles Times - BloombergThe Justice Department is preparing to open an antitrust investigation into Alphabet Inc.’s Google, according to a person familiar with the matter. The move comes after the Justice Department reached agreement
Mark Zuckerberg security chief accused of misconduct, report saysLos Angeles Times - Associated PressFacebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg's personal security chief faces accusations of sexual misconduct and making racist and homophobic comments, according to a report Thursday by a business news site.
A doctored video of Nancy Pelosi shows social media giants ill-prepared for 2020Los Angeles Times - By Sam Dean and Suhauna HussainHours after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi addressed a conference Wednesday, a distorted video of the California Democrat’s conversation began spreading across the internet. The manipulated clip, slowed to
Qualcomm violated antitrust law, federal judge rulesLos Angeles Times - Mike FreemanA federal judge has ruled that Qualcomm Inc. violated antitrust laws by using its dominant position in smartphone chips to extract excessive patent license fees for its cellular inventions, striking a
Huawei gets short reprieve but is seeking alternatives to Google's Android after U.S. banLos Angeles Times - By Natalia DrozdiakHuawei Technologies Co. said Tuesday that it’s working on its own operating system for its mobile handsets and will consider rivals to Google’s Android after the U.S. blacklisted the Chinese company, its
Facebook’s robotic arms and legs are learning faster than everLos Angeles Times - BloombergAlthough Facebook Inc. doesn’t sell robots, its researchers use plenty of them — and the company said its machines are getting a lot smarter a lot faster. The social media giant announced Friday that engineers,
T-Mobile and Sprint soar as FCC Chairman says he'll recommend mergerLos Angeles Times - Nabila Ahmed, Liana Baker, Scott MoritzT-Mobile US Inc. and Sprint Corp. jumped in premarket trading as U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai said he would recommend approval of their $26.5 billion merger, after the companies
Lower pay and higher costs: The downside of Lyft’s car rental programLos Angeles Times - By Johana BhuiyanIt was an advertisement for Lyft that convinced Chris Berry to leave his small town and head to Nashville. He could make a comfortable living driving for the ride-hailing service, the Craigslist post and
Facebook bans Israeli company, saying it worked to disrupt electionsLos Angeles Times - Associated PressFacebook Inc. said Thursday it banned an Israeli company that ran an influence campaign aimed at disrupting elections in various countries and has canceled dozens of accounts engaged in spreading disinformation.
Facebook buys land in New Mexico but doesn’t say what it’s forLos Angeles Times - Associated PressFacebook has more than doubled its New Mexico footprint with the purchase of more than 400 acres near its new data center. The Albuquerque Journal reports the social media giant confirmed this week that
WhatsApp flaw let spies take control of phonesLos Angeles Times - Associated PressSpyware crafted by a sophisticated group of hackers-for-hire took advantage of a flaw in Facebook Inc.’s popular WhatsApp communications program to remotely hijack dozens of targeted phones without any
Google unveils new digital ad formats, and Facebook issues a warningLos Angeles Times - BloombergGoogle is giving advertisers a ton of extra digital real estate, adding new promotional formats to online search, YouTube and its increasingly popular Discover service. Meanwhile, Facebook Inc. is close
Uber fares are cheap, thanks to venture capital. But is that free ride ending?Los Angeles Times - Sam DeanThe 2010s have been the decade of the subsidized ride. Uber and Lyft duked it out on the streets of American cities, burning mountains of venture capital to keep fares low in the hopes of winning the for
Self-driving tech attracts investors, but Uber still relies on its driversLos Angeles Times - Johana Bhuiyan, Sam DeanFormer Uber Chief Executive Travis Kalanick once blamed the high cost of each ride on the “other dude in the car” — the driver. It has long been on the ride-hailing company’s road map to someday replace
