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Uber Buys Drizly, an Alcohol Delivery Service, for $1.1 Billion - 2 février 2021
Uber has acquired Drizly, the alcohol delivery service, in a $1.1 billion deal, the ride-hailing company said on Tuesday. The acquisition is part of Uber’s aggressive push to expand its booming delivery business during the pandemic.
The deal, a mix of stock and cash, follows Uber’s recent acquisitions of Postmates, (...)
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Gig Companies Like Uber Are Now Lobbying to Change Labor Laws Nationwide - 23 novembre 2020
Prop 22 was only the beginning
Last week, a confident Dara Khosrowshahi, chief executive of Uber, told investors that Proposition 22 was only the beginning. The contentious ballot measure, which was voted into law by millions of Californians this month, allows Uber and Lyft to subvert a new state labor law that (...)
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La Californie permet désormais aux entreprises de technologie de rédiger leurs propres lois - 19 novembre 2020
Objet d’une campagne de propagande qui a coûté plus de 200 millions de dollars, l’électorat californien a adopté la « Proposition 22 » soutenue par Uber et Lyft, excluant définitivement les travailleurs des « plates-formes » en ligne de la protection du travail.
Le 3 novembre, les électeurs californiens ont adopté la (...)
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La chute d’Uber amortie par les livraisons de repas - 7 août 2020
Avec le confinement, l’activité d’UberEats a rapporté, pour la première fois, plus d’argent à la société américaine que le transport de passagers en VTC. Elle enregistre néanmoins une lourde perte au deuxième trimestre.
Beaucoup se sont mis à la cuisine pour tuer le temps pendant le confinement. D’autres ont opté pour la (...)
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Police Protests : Uber Eats And Other Food Delivery Apps Will Continue Taking Orders Despite Curfew Ordinances - 5 juin 2020
About 40 cities in the US have instituted curfews. Food delivery workers will still be on the hook for deliveries.
Food delivery apps will still process orders placed after curfews begin in dozens of cities around the US, including cities where police have violently attacked people on the streets in recent days, (...)
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Americans Keep Clicking to Buy, Minting New Online Shopping Winners - 15 mai 2020
Online sales in the United States have surged since the middle of March, when shelter-in-place measures shuttered brick-and-mortar stores throughout the country.
While the shutdowns immediately altered how people spent their money, the patterns have continued to shift as the weeks have gone on, new data shows, (...)
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An uncertain future for workers - 30 mars 2020
DETROIT, Mich. — There’s no better symbol of what the American worker’s life used to look like than Detroit : A stable, lifelong career at a booming factory, a union membership and a pension.
The big picture : Workers’ lives in the future won’t look like that. Already, new technologies and the gig economy are breaking (...)
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Grubhub is faking which restaurants it actually partners with - The Verge - 4 février 2020
The latest in its string of shady practices
Grubhub has a new “growth hacking” strategy that includes creating a restaurant listing on its platform for places it doesn’t even partner with. According to a new report by the San Francisco Chronicle and tweets by restaurant owner Pim Techamuanvivit, Grubhub has been (...)
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Les sales combines des apps de livraison pour faire pression sur les restaurants | korii. - 4 février 2020
Certains établissements sont référencés sur les listings des services de coursiers sans avoir donné leur accord.
Qu’est-ce qui différencie Uber Eats de Deliveroo, Stuart ou Frichti ? Pas grand-chose, et c’est bien leur problème : comment se démarquer sur le marché alors que chaque service est remplaçable par trois autres (...)
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Grubhub is using fake websites to drive up commission fees from real businesses - The Verge - 3 février 2020
They also list phone numbers that don’t belong to the actual business
Grubhub has been buying tens of thousands of domain names that resemble those of businesses they either work with or are pitching to get on the platform, reports New Food Economy. Those domains, of which Grubhub owns as many as 23,000, are used (...)
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Lyft and Other Gig-Economy Giants Cash In With IPOs Before Labor Laws Catch Up With Them - 2 avril 2019
Gig-economy companies Lyft, Uber, and Postmates are racing to file IPOs this year, a mad dash replete with ever-increasing multibillion-dollar valuations. But is the rush to start trading on the public markets also a sprint to evade compliance with current labor law ?
Recent financial and lobbyist filings suggest (...)
