One day after Uber updated its API to add 'content experiences' for passengers, the U.S. company's biggest rival — Didi Kuaidi in China — has opened its own platform up by releasing an SDK for developers and third-parties. Read MoreSource: TechCrunch
Transportation and geography have always been intertwined. Specifically, the auto industry, with Detroit being the prime example, was once more tightly tied to place. The same can be said for the tech industry, which still maintains a dominance largely in Silicon Valley. Until very recently, these industries were distinct: tech was tech and transportation was transportation and never the…
Among her many struggles this election season, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has had a rough go with minority electorates. From Hispandering to a Kwanzaa flub, Clinton has struggled to convince minority voters she understands their world view and pandering her way through Fusion's "Black and Brown Forum" in Iowa on Monday night didn't he per case. From Breitbart: Democratic presidential
Threadflip, an online consignment marketplace for women's clothing is no more as of Wednesday at midnight. An email sent to users explains the startup founded in 2011 will shut down operations and roll into clothing rental startup, Le Tote. With Threadflip, users were able to take photos of their items and list them for sale via its app. The company covered shipping costs but took…
Several Uber customers in California received notice today they're involved in a class-action lawsuit against the rideshare giant. Uber agreed to the terms of a $1.8 million suit alleging it inappropriately charged customers an "airport fee toll" late last year. The lawsuit, filed in November 2015, accused Uber of charging customers the "airport fee toll"…
Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces detained as many as 10 U.S. Navy sailors when one of their boats became disabled on Tuesday near Farsi Island in the Persian Gulf. Pentagon officials the sailors picked up by Iran and taken to the island after their two small boats had mechanical trouble, causing one or both to run aground. The boats
Ninety-five percent of black voters voted for then-Sen. Barack Obama in 2008. Many of them were had hope that a a "progressive" black president would understand and care about black America in a way no other president ever has. Yet, seven years into the Obama presidency and blacks are worse off in every key economic
Millions of software engineers are caged. Their talent remains unseen behind the iron bars of the misconception of a shortage of software engineers. An estimated one million technology jobs will go unfilled by 2020, according to a report put forth by Microsoft in 2012. Publications like The Wall Street Journal and even the White House repeatedly cite this projection, ringing a nationwide…
Grindr, the social network for gay men, has sold a majority 60 percent stake to Chinese gaming company Beijing Kunlun Tech for $93 million. The deal, which values six-year-old Grindr at $155 million, is the first time that the U.S. company has taken outside investment.