During the before times, people sometimes forgot to wash their hands, zoom was a sound made by car commercials, and food delivery companies had a lot of financial ups and downs. Companies like DoorDash, Uber Eats, Grubhub and Postmates fiercely competed for national supremacy. To top it off, customers were finicky, some could be swayed […]
Browsing Category: Business
Domino’s Takes Aim At Food Delivery Apps With $50 Million of Free Food
The best things in life are free, right? Well, Domino’s is giving customers a chance to combine two of the best things in life: food that’s free. The company’s “Surprise Frees” program is a direct response to the extra fees that apps like DoorDash and Uber Eats tack onto each of their customer’s delivery totals. […]
Pre-IPO Stocks, Explained
During the craziness of the dotcom days in the 1990s, initial public offerings or IPOs (aka when private companies make their big debut on Wall Street) got a little wild. Back then, people could invest their money into just about any IPO and could be guaranteed returns (well, at first). Stockholders that had the foresight […]
Nasdaq Partners With Big Banks to Break Out Trading Platform for Pre-IPO Stocks
Nasdaq announced on Tuesday that they’re partnering with a group of banks to separate their platform, Nasdaq Private Market, which allows investors to trade in stocks of private companies. The goal of this new partnership is to help increase deal-making activity to Nasdaq Private Market, the New York-based exchange operator’s trading platform for shares of […]
DoorDash and Grubhub Sue San Francisco Over Permanent Delivery Fee Caps
Delivery giants DoorDash and Grubhub have launched a lawsuit against San Francisco after it became the first U.S. city to make temporary pandemic-era delivery fee caps permanent last month. This past Friday, both meal delivery companies filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. New York, Los Angeles, Washington, […]
Gig Workers as Employees: What Does That Mean for Gig Workers
“Gig” was originally used as slang for a musical performance, but the term has come to mean much, much more than that. Now, the term gig has grown to include any job that is paid for services rendered, basically, anything that used to be referred to as part-time, freelance or consulting work. Gigs are legitimate […]