Category: Business

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Worker-Owned Apps Are Redefining the Sharing Economy

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Reading Time: 3 minutesad_1 To compete with well-funded private platforms, active government and municipal intervention is vital for platform cooperatives. This could be through procurement policies that give platform …

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Air Canada plans major flight cancellations this summer

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Reading Time: < 1 minutead_1 Air Canada, the nation’s largest carrier, announced Wednesday major flight cuts for this summer amid high demand, staffing shortages and numerous delays at the country’s …

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Subscription version of Snapchat makes its debut

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Reading Time: < 1 minutead_1 A new Snapchat+ subscription version of the ephemeral messaging app is priced at $4 monthly. US tech firm Snap on Wednesday launched a subscription version …

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Zillow lays off 55 employees in Texas as it shuts down its iBuying business

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Reading Time: 2 minutesad_1 Credit: CC0 Public Domain Zillow Group Inc. will lay off 55 employees in Texas as continues its exit from the home-flipping business. The company began …

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Uber inks deal for Australian gig worker rights

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Reading Time: 2 minutesad_1 Uber and Australia’s powerful Transport Workers Union have said they both support the creation of an independent body to create standards across the ‘gig’ economy. …

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China Is Racing to Electrify Its Future

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Reading Time: 3 minutesad_1 “China has gone from having virtually no electric vehicles to having almost half of the world’s stock of passenger electric vehicles, and far more of …

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China Is Tightening Its Grip on Big Tech

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Reading Time: 2 minutesad_1 China’s tech regulation goals are often in direct contradiction to what the rest of the world is trying to do. “Nothing, or very little about …

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Sony launches PC gaming gear, expanding beyond PlayStation

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Reading Time: 2 minutesad_1 Sony is entering the gaming peripherals market. Japan’s Sony is launching a new brand that will offer PC gaming gear, the company announced Wednesday, as …

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Google’s new California offices bank on in-person work

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Reading Time: 3 minutesad_1 Google has opened a new campus in Silicon Valley. Roofs coated with canopy-like solar panels and indoor spaces awash in sunlight: Google has bet big …

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Siemens investing in Volkswagen’s Electrify America

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Reading Time: 2 minutesad_1 Electrify America, an electric car charger producer, has opened a charging station Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019, in Paducah, Ky. German engineering company Siemens is making …