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 Uber Eats' Business Up 190%, Company Has Still Lost Nearly $6 Billion This Year Shelter-in-place has been a windfall for Uber Eats, but the rideshare giant has still managed to lose $5.8 billion thus far in 2020.
SF Politics Uber and Lyft’s Prop 22 Only Up By 3 Points in Poll, Despite $186 Million War Chest An all-time California record of campaign cash has not yet sealed the deal for Lyft and Uber in their campaign to ensure their drivers are not classified as employees.
Business & Tech Uber Is Now Trying to Buy Postmates San Francisco-based Uber, in a bid to secure Uber Eats as a major player in the future of food delivery, is courting another rival for a possible acquisition — and like with the recently failed courtship of Grubhub, they are not Postmates' only suitor.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Class Action Suit Claims Delivery Apps Are Using ‘Monopoly Power’ To Increase Meal Prices Ever felt a bit say, ripped off by a delivery-app order? A recent class-action lawsuit filed in New York claims companies like Bay Area-based Uber Eats and Postmates have “monopoly power,” unfairly charging diners inflated amounts for meals that might otherwise be cheaper.
Business & Tech Gig Workers Uniquely Vulnerable to Coronavirus, No Employee Protections in Place Many on-demand delivery companies are cleaning up as the shut-in economy surges, but the rideshare industry is taking a hit, and gig workers are forced to put in extra work under high-risk conditions.
Business & Tech Uber and Postmates Join Forces To Seek Injunction In Gig-Worker Law AB-5 The two local app-based companies that rely on contract drivers are challenging a new California law that is set to go into effect on January 1, and which poses an existential threat to the so-called "gig economy."
SF News Postmates Gets First Permit To Test Delivery Robots On SF Streets Remember how the Board of Supervisors was talking about banning all sidewalk delivery robots two years ago? Well that didn't happen, and instead, like with the scooter debacle, the city has simply come up with permitting system.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Restaurants Still Annoyed About Postmates, And Not Being Able To Opt Out It makes perfect sense that some restaurants would never offer delivery of their food because their food doesn't travel well, and they know this. But in the era of Postmates and Caviar, restaurants
SF News Your UberX Driver Is Also Probably Your Postmates And Washio Delivery Person A new survey by a dubiously named outfit called SherpaShare which itself is a service portal for workers in the gig/sharing economy confirms that many drivers for services like Uber and Lyft
SF News After Lyft And Uber, Now Postmates And Caviar Delivery People Are Suing To Be Made Employees Following on the potentially major lawsuits against Uber and Lyft about their classification of drivers as independent contractors, delivery people working for services like Postmates, Instacart, and Caviar have also filed suit to