Backed by frogVentures, Voyomotive is tackling the burgeoning connected-car space.
Tech companies and automakers are racing to get more connected cars on the road, but unless consumers have a few grand to spare on a new ride, they’re missing out on some of the fuel savings, security, and diagnostic tools that come standard with today’s models.
Is the gig up for the gig economy?
Micro-gigging via the various labor platforms in the sharing economy leaves already vulnerable workers no better off, and in some ways worse off. The pay is low, the safety net eviscerated, job security nonexistent. A graphic designer can make $300 in one day, but not have any more work lined up for two weeks and have trouble making rent. A public-relations consultant can count IBM as a client, but still have to choose between squirreling away some money for retirement and affording the smartphone she needs to track all her clients. A young college graduate goes freelance but can’t pay her crippling student loans. If you lose a gig and haven’t yet found another, tough luck, you aren’t even eligible for unemployment compensation; if your client pays a month late, or stiffs you entirely, tough luck again. And on top of it all, you get paid less than your regularly employed counterparts, on average 25% less in hourly wage (with the gap even larger for some occupations).
Founder Christina Stembel is disrupting the flower delivery market—but the competition is hot at her heels.
Flower delivery entrepreneur Christina Stembel isn’t looking for candlelight and chocolates from her husband Neil on Valentine’s Day. Instead, she’d prefer a willingness to work the overtime shift at her 4,000-square-foot studio in San Francisco’s flower district.
“Somebody horked our seats!” cry the Conservatives
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“The time to hesitate is through! No time to wallow in Stephen Harper‘s mire,” Canadian voters announced yesterday with a landslide victory for the Liberal Party and its leader, maple-flavored Jim Morrison clone Justin Trudeau. Harper will step down as Conservative Party leader and, as is Canadian custom, will be stripped of his holdings in Canadian Tire money and jeered in all Tim Horton’s for the next 9 years. The other interesting Canadian, Drake, celebrated election day by putting on a baggy turtleneck sweater and doing the Carlton Dance in Don Johnson’s neon spaceship, which everyone loved because, as Kara Brown explained, Drake is the best at being a dork.
Fresh on the heels of its streaming video deal with Netflix, Virgin America has signed content agreements with Spotify and the Times.
Virgin America is teaming up with Spotify and the New York Times for your reading and listening pleasure. Under a short-term agreement lasting through March 2, 2016, passengers will be able to stream Spotify’s entire catalog for free and read limited content from the Times website through the airline’s Wi-Fi service. Travelers will still need a Times subscription to read all of the site’s articles, but Spotify’s library will be available in full.
The tech giant is concerned about privacy issues in Europe and the United States.
Microsoft is requesting legal changes in response to a recent controversial political decision in Europe. Earlier this month, the European Union undid its long-standing “Safe Harbor” policy, which allowed foreign tech companies to store data about European users in data centers outside of Europe.
EA Games makes the ultimate old nerd dream come true.
When you were a kid you had all the action figures. You spent hours fighting the Empire, on your own and with friends. Your bedroom was Mos Eisley, your backyard was Hoth, your love of Jar Jar Binks non-existent. As we begin another hype cycle for The Force Awakens impending arrival in theaters, EA Games and Playstation are tapping into the force of nostalgia for the new game Star Wars Battlefront.
The Zillow Group family of apps and websites dominates real estate. Here’s how CEO Spencer Rascoff achieves his goals lightning-quick.
“Critical” is a favorite word of Spencer Rascoff, the CEO of Zillow Group.
The fast-growing messaging and media app has seen star talent exit quickly. What’s behind those buzzy departures and what they really mean.
Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel has been able to recruit an impressive roster of top-tier talent to his Venice, California-based startup. And that’s why when some of those same high-profile hires have departed, often rather quickly, questions have been raised about the direction of the company as well as about Spiegel’s abilities as a manager. The list of notable Snapchat departures is growing fast. There’s Snapchat engineering VP Peter Magnusson, who left in 2014; COO Emily White, who decamped earlier this year; and sales head Mike Randall and HR chief Sara Sperling, who both left not long before White. Shannon Petranoff, a former Paramount VP who joined Snapchat in March, only to return to Paramount in September; The Information reported last month that Snapchat had fired its chief talent officer Simmi Singh; and original content leader Marcus Wiley, a former Fox executive, departed Snapchat just weeks ago when the company shut down its original content initiative, for now at least.
Model Ashley Graham is turning her lingerie line into a cause. This is good news for Lena Dunham, Serena Williams, and women everywhere.
Walking triumphantly down the Tommy Hilfiger runway at the end of a show during New York Fashion Week in September while holding hands with her fellow models, Gigi Hadid looked happy and confident.
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