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Lyft hasn’t experienced a smooth ride on Wall Street since it went public last March. In an attempt to rein in costs, the ride-hailing company announced Wednesday that it’s laying off 90 employees from its marketing and enterprise sales departments. The news was first reported by The New York Times. “We’ve carefully evaluated the resources …

A small battle is brewing in the scooter world. It involves an app called Scooter Map, which its developer said was created to help people find scooters from all companies grouped together in one app. Problem is, one of the world’s largest rental scooter companies doesn’t like it. Lime sent Victor Pontis, Scooter Map’s developer, a cease-and-desist letter last April. …

T-Mobile provides banking services through its T-Mobile Money offering, but it soon won’t be the only telecom to enter the world of finance. On Thursday Verizon announced that it will be partnering with financial firm Synchrony to offer a co-branded consumer card to its customers later in the “first half of 2020.”  Verizon is the latest, but far from the …

Uber is testing a new feature that will give some drivers in California a chance to earn more money. The experiment comes after the state’s gig-worker bill went into effect earlier this month. Drivers in Santa Barbara, Palm Springs and Sacramento who pick up passengers from an airport can set their own fares instead of using the Uber-estimated fare, The Wall …

Another of Uber’s longtime executives is leaving the company. Rachel Holt, who’d been with Uber for nearly nine years, said Tuesday that she’s moving on to launch a venture capital firm. Her most recent position at Uber was vice president of the division that oversees bikes, scooters and public transit partnerships. “Making a change like this is never easy. Uber …

This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. Manna, an Irish drone startup that — as its name suggests — sends food down from the heavens, has inked a deal with a Qualcomm-backed networking company to help its aircraft navigate the skies. The three-year deal with fellow Irish company …

Uber has begun turning on a PIN system that’s designed to improve the safety of riders by ensuring they’re getting into the correct driver’s car. The verification system is part of an effort to improve the ride-hailing service in light of safety and sexual assault concerns about Uber that emerged in 2019. Uber tested the “verify your ride” PIN system …

Uber drivers in California finally got a feature last month that they’d been requesting for years — the ability to view passengers’ destinations before accepting trips. That means they also get to see how much they will earn from rides and have the ability to reject ones that don’t seem worthwhile. For drivers, the feature has widely been seen as …

For Uber, maybe this time’s the charm. Over the past year, Uber has made various attempts to stop a California labor law from going through, but nothing’s worked. The law, Assembly Bill 5 (or AB 5) was signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in September and set to go into effect Wednesday. But in an eleventh-hour attempt, Uber is trying something …

Ride-hailing service Uber filed a lawsuit Monday against the state of California, alleging that a landmark gig worker law, set to go into effect Wednesday, is unconstitutional. The lawsuit seeks to block AB 5, which has the potential to upend gig economy companies such as Uber and Lyft. The complaint, which also lists Postmates as a plaintiff, argues that the …