The “other” AB5 case in California — overshadowed by the better-known case brought by the California Trucking Association (CTA) — is awaiting word from the full 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on what happens next.
California partially lost the case against AB5 brought by Uber and Postmates in March before a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit. The state of California is the defendant.
That decision, known as Olson after the lead plaintiff in the case first filed in 2019, said app-based...
Two key lawsuits regarding trucking, gig workers and California’s independent contractor law, AB5, are starting to converge.
The California Trucking Association (CTA) lawsuit that dates back to 2019, which resulted in an injunction that kept AB5 at bay in trucking for 2 1/2 years until the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review a lower court ruling against the injunction, faced a deadline Wednesday for filing additional briefs.
Those briefs were to be filed by the state of California and the...
Having previously taken aim at DoorDash and Grubhub, but to no avail, the city of Chicago finally got a win this week.
On Monday, the Office of the Mayor of Chicago announced the city had reached a massive settlement with Uber (NYSE: UBER) platforms Uber Eats and Postmates. Uber will pay out a total of about $10 million, which includes around $3.3 million the company repaid merchants in 2021.
Lawmakers accused the food delivery platform of charging restaurants excessive fees during the pandemic...
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The direct-to-consumer shipping trend has gone cold – as in ice cream cold. Robomart, the on-demand retail store that sends a vehicle filled with items directly to the consumer, announced a partnership with Unilever to deliver that company’s famous ice cream brands, including Ben & Jerry’s and Breyers.
Robomart vehicles will deliver ice cream products under Unilever’s The Ice Cream Shop virtual brand name. The delivery products will include the aforementioned brands as well as Good Humor, Magnum...
Andreas Lieber, who most recently served as general manager and interim CEO of Postmates, has joined e-commerce shipping platform Shippo in the newly created role of chief business officer.
Lieber will be responsible for business development, strategic partnerships, corporate development and other strategic growth and expansion efforts, the company said.
“Shipping is an integral part of the e-commerce experience and requires a sophisticated system of integrations and relationships to get a...
Uber wants in on the health and wellness space. The rideshare and food delivery giant is partnering with telehealth platform Hims & Hers (NYSE: HIMS) to deliver personal care and health products to Uber Eats customers in 12 markets, including Los Angeles, Seattle, Miami, Philadelphia and Austin, Texas.
Uber (NYSE: UBER), which launched Uber Health — a service that allows health care organizations to arrange rides for patients — in 2018, has been dipping its toes into the health and wellness...
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The venture firm Fontinalis Partners was founded in 2009 as its leaders saw an opportunity for technological advancements to improve the way that goods and individuals moved.
“We felt strongly that, over the next several years, there was going to be a wave of innovation that would not only affect the automotive sector, but manufacturing, transportation, logistics, retail and other high-consequence industry,” said Chris Stallman, partner of Fontinalis Partners, in an interview with FreightWaves.
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Uber stock was up about 2.5% in early trading on Thursday, just hours after a pullback following the company’s Q2 earnings release. Uber missed on analyst estimates for both revenue and EPS, due in part to driver shortages in its ride-hailing business, while rival Lyft reported a huge quarter — but analysts are still bullish on Uber’s prospects.
Analyst Ross Sandler of Barclays maintained an Overweight rating on the stock, anticipating a recovery in the company’s volume, take rate and...
About two weeks ago, thousands of people across the United States took to the streets in protest, hoisting signs with damning statements like “Driving us into poverty” or “32 cents a mile is not enough.” In cities from Los Angeles to Boston, the masses clamored to be heard, tensions flared and the streets seemed suspiciously devoid of ridesharing vehicles.
The protests could be more accurately described as a strike against the ridesharing industry’s titans, Uber (NYSE: UBER) and Lyft (NASDAQ:...
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