Business & Tech Uber Acquires Alcohol-Delivery App Drizly For $1.1 Billion Once again showing that the company's priorities have shifted since the pandemic began, Uber has just purchased Boston-based booze-delivery app Drizly, so that you can make sure to get a side whiskey brought to your door with your burger and fries.
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Business & Tech Apple's War With Facebook Continues as New Privacy Controls Will Stop Apps From Illicitly Tracking Our Movements Apple issued an 11-page report on Thursday titled "A Day in the Life of Your Data," and announced plans to roll out a new layer of privacy control this spring that will prevent iPhone apps from tracking our movements without our knowledge.
Business & Tech Facebook Oversight Board Issues Its First Rulings On Misinformation, Hate Speech The nascent Oversight Board established by Facebook last year to serve as a "Supreme Court" or final arbiter for thorny content moderation questions has just issued its first five rulings.
Business & Tech Uber Lays Off 15% of Postmates Staff, Just Two Months After Buying the Company Nearly 200 Postmates employees got pink slips Monday in the wake of being acquired by Uber, but top Postmates executives will get “multimillion dollar exit packages.”
Business & Tech UCSF Team Finds Cancer Drug That Is 30 Times More Effective At Fighting COVID Than Remdesivir A research team at UCSF has landed on a potential game-changing treatment for COVID-19, though it is a cancer drug made by a Spanish firm that is not yet approved for any uses in the United States.
Business & Tech Facebook Oversight Panel Deciding Fate of Trump's Account Is Taking Public Comment Facebook's long promised but still barely operational Oversight Board — the so-called "Supreme Court" of content moderation — is taking on the case of Trump's locked account. And they want to hear from you.
Business & Tech Trump Pardons Anthony Levandowski, Convicted Thief of Autonomous Vehicle Trade Secrets Former Alphabet employee, Marin County resident and self-driving technology wunderkind Anthony Levandowski was one of 143 people to receive a last-minute pardon from Donald Trump on his way out of the White House.
Business & Tech Feds Allege Elizabeth Holmes Destroyed a SQL Database That Proved Her Theranos Product was Garbage Prosecutors subpoenaed an internal Theranos database they say proved executives knew their blood test product was a sham. That database was promptly destroyed, according to a new filing.
Business & Tech Airbnb Cancels All D.C. Reservations Ahead of Inauguration Guarding against taking any blame for providing shelter to domestic terrorists, Airbnb announced Wednesday that it would be canceling all reservations at properties owned by Washington D.C. hosts during inauguration week — as well as all reservations through Airbnb-owned HotelTonight.
Business & Tech Facebook Tells Employees to Stop Wearing Company-Branded Apparel, For Their Safety Following the bans on President Trump and "Stop the Steal" content, Facebook is telling its employees not to wear company-branded swag out in public, lest they incur the wrath of Trumpers.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yelp Now Allowing Users To Out Businesses and Restaurants for Violating COVID-19 Guidelines The San Francisco-based company synonymous with publishing crowd-sourced reviews on local businesses will now allow users to post complaints about businesses violating COVID-19 safety protocols.
Business & Tech Pro-Trump Protest at Twitter HQ Fails to Materialize There was much ado about nothing Monday morning outside Twitter headquarters, where police and journalists waited for a deluge of pro-Trump protest chaos that never came.
Business & Tech Boom — President Trump Has Been Permanently Banned From Twitter With only 12 days left in his presidency, the sitting American president has been permanently removed from his favorite late night, all-caps messaging platform.
Business & Tech Facebook Locks Trump's Account Indefinitely; Will Twitter Be Next? Following temporary locks on Donald Trump's Twitter and Facebook accounts that began Wednesday night, Facebook has escalated its crackdown on the president's lies and decided to suspend his access to the platform indefinitely.
Business & Tech Twitter Locks Trump's Account, Facebook and YouTube Remove Video After His Continuing Lies Fail to Discourage Rioters Twitter has stepped in to lock President Trump's account for 12 hours and blocked access to several tweets from Wednesday citing risks of violence, and along with Facebook and YouTube they have removed a video Trump posted from the Rose Garden Wednesday afternoon.
Business & Tech Small Businesses in CA Now Have Until January 13 to Apply For COVID Relief Grants The Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (Go-Biz) announced Monday that the deadline has been extended for small businesses to apply for economic relief grants of up to $25,000.
Business & Tech Google Employees Have Formed a Union, But Only A Tiny Percentage Have Signed Up A smattering of Googlers, YouTubers and Waymo staff have formed the Alphabet Workers Union, in a move that could revolutionize the tech industry — or merely result in about 200 Google employees getting fired for vague “performance” reasons.
Business & Tech Uber and Lyft Both in Rush To Offer ‘Free’ Rides to Get Vaccine (Many of Which Won’t Be Free) The two competing rideshare giants announce two different competing plans to offer free rides for vaccine shots, but the fine print shows plenty of these rides will not actually be free.
Business & Tech United Airlines Passengers Who Gave Aid to Dying Man With COVID Were Given $75 Flight Voucher It's been confirmed that a man who died last week in some respiratory or cardiac distress on board a California-bound United flight out of Orlando was COVID-positive. And now passengers who helped administer medical aid are wondering why they had to find out from the news media.
Business & Tech Airbnb Removes 65 Listings for Scofflaw 'Party Houses' In SF, Oakland, and San Jose Airbnb is again cracking down on "party houses" that seem to have incurred violations around the Bay Area, but why is this coming up now when technically no vacation rentals are even permitted here?
Business & Tech Twitter is Testing ‘Humanization Prompts’ in Hopes That We Won’t Be Such Trolls to One Another Twitter figures that if we are informed that someone also likes dogs or soccer, maybe we will tone down our death threats and online harassment.
Business & Tech 10 (Red) States Are Suing Google Over What They Say Is an Online Advertising Monopoly The end of 2020 is arriving with a slew of legal headaches for Big Tech. And a week after we learned of twin antitrust lawsuits against Facebook being brought by state attorneys general and the FTC in tandem, we learn that a group of states is also filing suit against Google.
Business & Tech Amazon Buys Recology Site in SF for $200 Million, Scuttles Plan to Make it Housing Recology just sold its 900 7th Street waste maintenance facility to Amazon, who plan to make it a six-acre delivery warehouse facility in San Francisco.
Business & Tech Zuckerberg Says Facebook Employees Won’t Need Vaccine to Return to Work It’s a prickly topic for any workplace, but Facebook staff will not be required to get the COVID-19 vaccine before returning to their pampered workplace.
