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The settlement comes less than two weeks after DoorDash filed its prospectus to go public.

Toast expected a massive drop in business when the pandemic first hit, but the company has bounced back and is giving shareholders a chance to sell some stock.

Lilium plans to build a so-called “vertiport” in Lake Nona, a planned futuristic smart city near Orlando International Airport.

According to investor Kevin O’Leary, you’re never too young to start a side hustle – and now, while social distancing, he says it’s the perfect time to do so.

Uber and Lyft scored a major win in California when voters passed a ballot measure to exempt them from classifying their drivers as employees. California Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez drafted the labor law that Prop 22 now partially repeals. She joined LX News to discuss how Prop 22 can affect independent workers nationwide, and potentially strip some of their key protections...

Uber, Lyft and other app-based ride-hailing and delivery services spent $200 million in a winning bet to circumvent California lawmakers and the courts to preserve their business model by keeping drivers from becoming employees eligible for benefits and job protections.

Uber and Lyft together have spent nearly $100 million on the ballot initiative to overturn the state law that would compel them to classify drivers as employees. That may sound like a lot, but the two ride-hailing companies would each face more than $392 million in annual payroll taxes and workers’ compensation costs even if they drastically cut the number...

A California appeals court has upheld an order requiring Uber and Lyft to treat their California drivers as employees instead of independent contractors, less than two weeks before voters will be asked to exempt the ride-hailing giants from the state’s gig economy law.

A state appeals court intervened Thursday in an ongoing legal battle involving Lyft and Uber, granting an emergency order to prevent a planned shutdown of ride services in California. Lyft announced in a blog post earlier Thursday that the company will suspend its operations Thursday night across California. Operations were expected to halt beginning at 11:59 p.m. Thursday, the company…

Uber would likely shut down temporarily for several months if a court does not overturn a recent ruling requiring it to classify its drivers as full-time employees, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in an interview with Stephanie Ruhle Wednesday on MSNBC. “If the court doesn’t reconsider, then in California, it’s hard to believe we’ll be able to switch our model to full-time...

A former Google engineer who helped steer the company’s self-driving car project has been sentenced to 18 months in prison.

A Rhode Island man previously charged with kidnapping and raping a woman after she left a Boston bar and got into his car while he posed as a rideshare driver is now facing similar charges in seven additional rape cases over three years. Alvin Campbell Jr., 39, is accused of rape, kidnapping and recording a nude person without their consent…

A Rhode Island man previously charged with kidnapping and raping a woman after she left a Boston bar and got into his car while he posed as a rideshare driver is now facing similar charges in seven additional rape cases over three years.

Massachusetts will become the second state ever to pursue legal action against ride-hailing giants Uber and Lyft over their classification of workers, Attorney General Maura Healey announced Tuesday. Healey filed a lawsuit against the two companies alleging that, by categorizing their nearly 200,000 Massachusetts drivers as independent contractors rather than employees, Uber and Lyft are violating the state’s wage and…

People looking for a ride are often having difficulty finding one nearby.

The crash happened around 1 a.m. at the intersection of Harbor Road and Route 28 in Harwich, Massachusetts, according to police.

The rideshare industry is making drastic changes to the way you ride.

Uber is cutting 3,000 more jobs less than two weeks after an initial round of layoffs, CNBC confirmed. In an email to employees Monday, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said Uber would also be shutting or consolidating 45 offices around the world and it is considering cuts to other businesses, like freight. Uber shares were up about 9% on the news, which was…

Uber is launching a new set of features in its app that will check if drivers are wearing face masks before starting trips.

Uber lost $2.9 billion in the first quarter as its overseas investments were hammered by the coronavirus pandemic, but the company is looking to its growing food delivery business and aggressive cost-cutting to ease the pain.