by Asmawisham | Apr 21, 2017 | Technology
Didi Chuxing president Jean Liu has been named one of TIME’s 2017 most influential people, and Apple CEO Tim Cook wrote an excerpt about her for the magazine.In it, Cook calls Liu a “disrupter” for building a transportation platform that offers...
by Asmawisham | Apr 21, 2017 | Technology
Snap has finally gone public and it’s worth more than $20 billion. Facebook continues to be an advertising behemoth. Google still owns the search ad universe. So is there room for another — specifically, Pinterest?We’ll find out in May some of the tricks Pinterest has...
by Asmawisham | Apr 21, 2017 | Technology
Uber has been tinkering with the idea of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) craft for a while now, beginning with the release of a white paper late last year detailing what steps it thinks are required to help it get it get to the point where it might make sense to...
by Asmawisham | Apr 21, 2017 | Technology
Conventional wisdom has kind of assumed that old fogies are afraid of self-driving cars and suffer from crippling range anxiety when it comes to EVs. Those youngsters, though, are all about autonomous electric cars — computers on wheels, if you will, that chauffeur...
by Asmawisham | Apr 21, 2017 | Technology
Lyft’s head of engineering Jill Wetzler has penned a heartfelt letter to her fellow teammates asking them to chat openly with her about any issues they may be facing in the workplace.The letter, sent on anonymous workplace app Blind and obtained by TechCrunch, pleads...
by Asmawisham | Apr 21, 2017 | Technology
The Federal Trade Commission has put dozens of so-called influencers on notice for failing to adequately document the fact that their Instagram and such like posts are in fact thinly veiled ads for which the posters are being generously compensated.The agency sent out...