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Uber is offering free rides to its own protest today
Uber is offering free UberPool rides to its New York customers to attend a pro-Uber protest at noon on Tuesday at New York's City Hall.On Monday, Uber sent an email to its New York City customers,...
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There’s a dark side to startups, and it haunts 30% of the world’s most...
The smile on Austen Heinz's face was unguarded and brief. It was the involuntary, small upturn of the corners the mouth that escapes when something genuinely makes you happy.For Heinz, it was seeing...
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Uber is getting dwarfed by its Chinese rival, which gives 3 million rides a day
Uber passengers in China are taking a million trips every day.Four of Uber's 10 biggest cities are in China, CEO Travis Kalanick told investors in an email obtained by the Financial Times last...
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Another hot Silicon Valley startup is reclassifying its workers as employees
Shyp, the startup that sends a courier to your house to pick up your packages and ship them for you, is reclassifying its laborers as employees.As you may recall, the California Labor Commission ruled...
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Amazon attracts super talented people. Want proof? Here are 13 startups...
The e-commerce powerhouse Amazon has spawned a wide range of startups, with its former employees working on everything from cute robots to recruiting software.If you want proof that Amazon recruits...
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The lawyer fighting for Uber and Lyft employees is taking the fight to four...
The lawyer who sued Uber and Lyft for not classifying contract workers as employees is now representing workers against four more on-demand companies: delivery services Postmates and Instacart, laundry...
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Fauxmentum: The risks of growth at all costs
faux·men·tumfōˈmen(t)əm, fəˈmen(t)əm/nounwhen a technology startup, its investors or the market believe in robust growth rates writ large.“the ecommerce company gained fauxmentum by raising...
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Why a founder on track to take his company public sold it for $110 million in...
To reward their employees for their work, companies used to give out grandfather clocks and gold watches as gifts.But Achievers, an enterprise-software company from Toronto, has a different approach to...
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This founder used to split his time between Amazon and the Army, and it shows
Isaac Oates manages a team of 42 people at Justworks, an HR and payroll management startup that he founded in 2012.Justworks wants to take the pain out of starting a business by making it easy to get...
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New York City just took its war with Uber to a whole new level
Oh, to be Uber in New York City, where someone is always mad at you.It’s natural that the taxi industry, which doesn’t take kindly to being “disrupted,” is a constant source of that ire. But sometimes...
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A look inside the insanely successful life of billionaire Uber CEO Travis...
Five years ago, Travis Kalanick launched a startup called UberCab in San Francisco.Fast forward a few years and Kalanick's company, now just called Uber, is now one of the most lucrative in Silicon...
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There's a new VC firm that only wants to fund billion-dollar 'unicorn' startups
There's been a lot of talk about tech "unicorns" recently.Like the fictional animal, unicorn companies — tech startups with billion-dollar valuations — are supposed to be rare and magical. Lately,...
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Angel investing is so huge, there's a 4-hour crash course to teach people how...
Angel investing in Silicon Valley is huge right now.In 2014, there were 2,960 angels who participated in a funding round (and by comparison, there were 822 in 2010).It's so popular, in fact, that...
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The 38 coolest startups in Silicon Valley
There's no shortage of innovative and impressive startups in Silicon Valley.But which are the coolest?Pulled from our recently published Silicon Valley 100 list, meet the coolest startups in Silicon...
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The 25 best European tech CEOs to follow on Instagram
The CEOs and founders of Europe's tech startups don't spend all their time in the office — they also get to travel to award conferences in exotic place and and atten fancy parties.Luckily for us,...
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The driver who beat Uber will teach you how to do it too — for $50
Barbara Ann Berwick delivered a potentially huge blow to Uber when she was declared an employee, not an independent contractor, by the California Labor Commission in June.She was awarded more than...
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British tech workers get paid a lot less than Americans for doing the exact...
London may be the "capital of European tech," but it still lags a long way behind the US.Case in point: When it comes to salaries, British tech workers earn significantly less than their American...
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It looks like Uber isn't in the running to buy Nokia's Google Maps rival...
Uber is out of the running for buying Here, Nokia's mapping business, Reuters reports.Back in May, Uber was reportedly bidding on Here for as much as $3 billion.Here is a hot commodity. Nokia's...
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Uber: We're not a taxi service, we're a 'lead generation' app
Uber is fighting back against a federal class-action lawsuit that seeks to reclassify all of its drivers in California from independent contractors to employees.In court documents filed with the...
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How AirBnB earned its $25 million valuation
Home-sharing juggernaut Airbnb reached a jaw-dropping valuation of $25 billion in its most recent funding round.That figure left some observers scratching their heads as the company is projected to...
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