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DoorDash—everyone’s favorite (albeit exploitative) food delivery service—is apparently hoping to raise a whopping…
Nov 25
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In the aftermath of Californian’s disastrous decision to avoid classifying gig workers as employees, the Securities…
Nov 23
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Another Uber Eats delivery worker in Sydney died on Monday evening, local time, after his bike was hit by a truck,…
Nov 4
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Great: pop the champagne for Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, who won his exorbitantly expensive battle to avoid paying…
Nov 3
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If the ballot measure Proposition 22 passes in California, tech companies will have undermined years of work…
Oct 6
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It’s become normal, thanks to Silicon Valley, for companies to periodically burst, unannounced, into our feeds to…
Aug 14
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San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin on Wednesday announced he filed a motion that would force DoorDash to…
Aug 5
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Delivery service DoorDash is taking a page out of the Amazon playbook and creating standalone stores called…
Jul 9
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Market-dominating delivery services like Grubhub and DoorDash are seeing unprecedented demand amid covid-19…
May 18
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Another sign of how fundamentally screwed the economics underlying the app economy are: It is possible to take…
Apr 14
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The primary group of food delivery service apps—Postmates, DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub, which also owns…
Mar 9
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Gig employers Uber and Lyft appear to have caved to public pressure to pay workers with SARS-CoV-2 who don’t have…
Mar 6
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With the novel coronavirus outbreak continuing to spread in America, gig economy titans are facing increasing…
Mar 6
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As the novel coronavirus continues to spread—thanks in part to the disastrously inadequate response by failing…
Mar 3
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As the United States braces for the novel coronavirus that has seen tens of thousands of confirmed cases and more…
Feb 12
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Shipt doesn’t command the name recognition of its main competitor, Instacart, nor the market share of Amazon Fresh…
Feb 11
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I hereby stan for Honorable United States District Judge William Alsup, the California sharpshooter who gives tech…
Jan 19
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To celebrate this three-day weekend, we’re going to share some pretty adorable news: Wolf puppies can play fetch.…
Jan 17 2020
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Courier service DoorDash—the company that’s managed with some success to dream up multiple predatory wage models for…
Jan 16 2020
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Delivery platform DoorDash has been at the top of the public’s most hated gig economy value extraction firms for…