On February 4, Uber announced its plans to acquire alcohol delivery service Drizly in a $1.1 billion deal, which will be finalized later this year Upon finalization, Drizly’s services will be integrated into the Uber Eats platform, but Drizly will still keep its own app as well, according to CNBC reports. This deal signifies the […]
Instacart recently fired a group of Skokie, Illinois employees who voted to unionize with the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1546 last year. As part of Instacart’s recent layoffs amid rapid expansion for the company and an impending IPO, Instacart fired 10 employees who voted to form the first and only union on the […]
More and more people are discovering that restaurants don’t actually like third-party delivery services. While many delivery services claim to be a “lifeline” for restaurants amid the COVID-19 pandemic, many of these restaurants express different sentiments, noting the ways delivery services make a portion of restaurant profits. In 2020, countless restaurants were forced to close […]
An alternative right-wing popularized social media network, Parler, faced a data breach amid political tensions in the United States presidential election. The scandal showcases just how vulnerable these apps are to accessing users’ personal information, and just how much of that information users should give at sign-up. Parler was founded in 2018 as a conservative […]
A recent study suggested that indoor farming can help save water and soil. Moreover, when the COVID-19 pandemic exposed long-ignored food supply chain issues, including but not limited to shipment delays and inadequate demand forecasting, indoor farms and vertical farms contributed to the solution. A number of controlled-environment farming companies, including AeroFarms, Elevate Farms, Plenty, […]
After months of conversation and development, several states in the U.S. have established COVID-19 tracking apps with the hope of slowing the spread of the coronavirus. Since the pandemic hit the United States in the spring, big tech, app developers and public health officials teamed up to deliver exposure notification (EN) technology via smartphones. While […]