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A California judge on Thursday dismissed requests from Uber and Lyft asking for more time to appeal his decision forcing them to classify drivers in their largest market as employees. The ride-hail giants have argued that Judge Ethan Schulman of the San Francisco Superior Court’s decision would require them to restructure their businesses, but the …

Uber would be forced to shut down its ride-hailing operations in California if a court ruling that blocks it from classifying its drivers as independent contractors goes into effect, the company said in a court filing. A California judge on Monday granted the state’s request for a preliminary injunction blocking Uber and rival Lyft from …

Shares of Uber and Lyft were down Tuesday morning following a California judge’s order that the ride-hailing giants should classify their drivers as employees instead of as independent contractors. The ruling was a major blow for the tech giants in their largest market. Uber and Lyft have been accused of violating California’s Assembly Bill 5, …

Food-delivery companies like Grubhub and UberEats can expect their margins to get squeezed in the Big Apple for a while longer, The Post has learned. City Council members are slated to meet Aug. 13 to extend emergency legislation that caps the commissions and delivery fees those companies charge restaurants. Passed in May, the strict rules …

Uber Technologies Inc said demand for its food delivery service more than doubled in the second quarter as many users remained largely homebound, while demand for ride-hailing trips was only marginally recovering from pandemic rock bottom. The company said that despite those larger challenges it is sticking to its goal of being profitable on an …

A former Google engineer who stole self-driving car technology for Uber was sentenced this week to 18 months in prison,  in what a California judge called the “biggest trade secret crime” he’s ever seen. US District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco refused to hand out a shorter sentence Tuesday to Anthony Levandowski, because it …

Uber Technologies has quietly launched a service to give public health officials quick access to data on drivers and riders presumed to have come into contact with someone infected with COVID-19, company officials told Reuters. The service, offered free of charge, could help burnish the image of the ride-hailing giant, which recently launched a new …

Philip J. Smith, chairman and CEO of Broadway’s biggest landlord, is retiring. Smith, 88, has been the head of the mighty Shubert Organization, which owns and operates 17 Broadway theaters and six off-Broadway venues, since 2008 and has been with the company for more than six decades. While Smith will take on an emeritus role, …

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