Uber Loses Case Against Driver. Will they be Employees? Will it Matter in a Few Years?
An unwritten rule of the “sharing economy” is that no one’s an employee. Employees mean taking out taxes, paying for
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Who Blocks the Blockers? A Mad Man
In another life, Ben Barokas would have been the sort of smoking, drinking advertising man that sells slide machines on
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Perhaps there is a god — AT&T Fined $100 Million
AT&T, the mobile phone carrier with a logo that — unapologetically and appropriately — looks like the Death Star, was
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Hulu Plus is Dead. Long Live Hulu
Hulu Plus, the pay side of the TV VOD service, will now just be known as Hulu. Hulu, without the
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LastPass Prompting Users to Change Passwords Due to Hack
With the recent federal government hack, online security’s taken center stage. At some romproint, someone may have suggested to you
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Leap on the Rocks? San Francisco Private Transportation Startup Selling 3 Buses
Private buses are all the rage, or everything that’s wrong, with San Francisco…depending on who you ask. Though they stop
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PayPal’s New TOS May be Drawing Government Scrutiny
PayPal, the online payment provider you love to hate, recently drew the ire of consumers and consumer groups with new
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Twitter Wants to be Your New Messaging App
In a post on its developer blog, Twitter announced it’s doing away with its 140 character limit on direct messages.
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Apple Manufacturer Foxconn Looks to Open Shop in India
If you’re big into Apple products, you’ve seen this on pretty much everything you own: “Designed by Apple in California.
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New iOS Developer Guidelines Point to Ad Blockers on Apple’s iPhones and iPads
Apple’s unveiled the possibility that ad blockers would be coming to mobile Safari, iOS’ browser, keeping with their WWDC keynote
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