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☆ Who Is Emmett Shear, OpenAI’s Interim Chief Executive?
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Kellen Browning | More About Kellen Browning | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When Emmett Shear, the former chief executive of the livestreaming site Twitch, was named the interim chief executive of OpenAI on Sunday night, it might have seemed a curious choice. Mr. Shear, 40, an avid video game player, was viewed as a competent leader who steered Twitch through several transitions. Some employees and livestreamers also complained that his focus on maneuvering Twitch toward profitability through cutting costs was eroding the quality of the platform. He also knows Sam Altman, who was forced out of OpenAI by its board of directors on Friday. The two were in the same group at Y Combinator, the start-up fund that invested in both of their early companies.

Persons: Emmett Shear, livestreamers, Sam Altman Locations: OpenAI

BALTIMORE (AP) — Lamar Jackson hurt an ankle and lost one of his top targets to a more severe injury. Jackson threw two touchdown passes in the second quarter — one of which came thanks to a fortuitous carom — and the Ravens beat Cincinnati 34-20 on Thursday night after the Bengals lost Joe Burrow to a wrist injury. Burrow left in the second quarter after throwing a touchdown pass and wasn't able to return. “That's like receiver one sometimes.”Ravens coach John Harbaugh announced after the game that Andrews' injury appears to be season-ending. Cincinnati won the division the past two years, when late-season injuries kept Jackson off the field for the Ravens.

Persons: — Lamar Jackson, Jackson, Joe Burrow, Burrow, Mark Andrews, ” Jackson, “, ”, John Harbaugh, Andrews, Zac Taylor, hasn't, Joe Mixon, Jackson's, Germaine Pratt, Nelson Agholor, Rashod Bateman, Jake Browning, Ja'Marr Chase, Browning, ” Browning, Joe, Gus Edwards bookended, Deshaun Watson, ” Harbaugh, I'd, Cam Taylor, Britt, ___ Organizations: BALTIMORE, Cincinnati Bengals, Ravens, Cincinnati, Bengals, AFC, ” Ravens, Baltimore, AFC North, Cleveland, Super, San, NEXT, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles Chargers Locations: Cincinnati, Baltimore, Florida, San Francisco, New Orleans

BALTIMORE (AP) — Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow left Thursday night's game at Baltimore with a right wrist injury and the team said he would not return. Burrow was 11 of 17 for 101 yards and a touchdown when he left the game. Burrow was back on the sideline as halftime ended but did not return to the game when Cincinnati started the third quarter with the ball. Burrow dealt with a calf injury earlier this season, but he hasn't missed a game this year. He's missed only one game since the start of the 2021 season while leading Cincinnati to back-to-back AFC title games and a Super Bowl appearance.

Persons: Joe Burrow, Burrow, Joe Mixon, Jake Browning, hasn't, He's, Browning Organizations: BALTIMORE, — Cincinnati Bengals, Baltimore, Bengals, Cincinnati, AFC, NFL, Cleveland Locations: Cincinnati

Simmons, though, saved some of his profusive praise for one of Denver's current pass rushers, Baron Browning, a third-year pro from Ohio State who has transitioned from inside to outside linebacker. Browning missed the first two months of the season while recovering from knee surgery and a wrist injury. Political Cartoons View All 1240 Images“It's crazy to have that type of impact really your first game back,” Simmons said. The most impressive play by Browning was his strip sack of Mahomes on first-and-10 from the Broncos 19 less than a minute before halftime. “He has that bend and he has that athleticism to be able to put himself in that upper echelon of pass rushers.

Persons: — Justin Simmons, Von Miller, “, ” Simmons, Miller, Simmons, Baron Browning, Browning, Vance Joseph, Patrick Mahomes, ”, Donovan Smith, Smith wobbled, Jonathon Cooper, Von's, that's, ” Browning, Everyone's, Joseph, He’s Organizations: Denver Broncos, Rams, Bills, Ohio State, Green, Kansas City Chiefs, ” Kansas City, Broncos, Chiefs, Famer Locations: ENGLEWOOD, Colo, Buffalo, ” Kansas, Mahomes, Denver

☆ Uber Reports Record Ridership and Second Straight Quarterly Profit
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Kellen Browning | More About Kellen Browning | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Uber on Tuesday reported financial results that showed its business was continuing to steadily chug along — and even turn a profit — as more riders and drivers used its platform than ever before. That was Uber’s second straight quarterly profit on the strength of its own business operations — rather than from its investments in other companies — a milestone for a company that had long faced questions about its profitability. While other technology companies have endured mass layoffs and nagging questions about their businesses during the recent economic downturn, Uber has generally produced consistent, positive results over the last year. Its worst days came early in the pandemic, when travel ground nearly to a halt and drivers left the platform. The 6.5 million drivers who ferried passengers and food around the world in the past quarter was a record, Uber said.

Persons: Uber Organizations: Wall, Uber

On Monday, Epic Games, the company behind the hit game Fortnite, will appear in federal court in San Francisco to kick off a monthlong trial in its own antitrust lawsuit against Google. Epic is expected to argue that Google is violating both state and federal antitrust laws — as well as its founding principle, “Don’t be evil” — by wielding monopolistic power over app developers on its Google Play Store on Android mobile phones. The video game developer had tried to bypass the Play Store’s fees by letting Fortnite players pay Epic directly for in-app items, prompting Google to bar the game from the store. (The company says 99 percent of developers qualify for a fee of 15 percent or lower on in-app purchases. Larger app makers like Epic must pay 30 percent.)

Organizations: Google, Justice Department, Games Locations: Washington, San Francisco

DETROIT (AP) — Pressure in rising on General Motors as the lone holdout in a strike targeting all three big Detroit automakers after a tentative contract agreement with Jeep maker Stellantis was reached with the United Auto Workers union over the weekend. The Ford agreement revives cost-of-living adjustments that the UAW agreed to suspend in 2009 during the Great Recession. At Stellantis, workers get cost-of-living pay that would bring raises to a compounded 33%, with top assembly plant workers making more than $42 per hour. Overnight, 8,200 Stellantis workers in Canada represented by a different union, Unifor, walked off the job. At the peak, about 46,000 UAW workers were on strike — about one-third of the union’s 146,000 members at all three companies.

Persons: Stellantis, ”, Erik Gordon, Ford, Shawn Fain, Fain, Chuck Browning, ” “, ” Browning, Gordon, Bruce Baumhower, ” Unifor, ____ Bajak, John Raby, Corey Williams, Haleluya Organizations: DETROIT, General Motors, Detroit, United Auto Workers, UAW, Ford, GM, Saturday, Silverado, Sierra, Vehicles, GMC Acadia, Cadillac, University of Michigan, ” “ UAW, Jeep, “ Locations: American, Spring Hill , Tennessee, Texas , Michigan, Missouri, Spring, Mexico, Arlington , Texas, Detroit, America, Stellantis, Toledo , Ohio, Canada, Unifor, Boston, Charleston , West Virginia, Sterling Heights , Michigan, Jersey City , New Jersey

☆ UAW deal with Ford includes $8.1 billion in investments, $5,000 ratification bonuses
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Michael Wayland | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Members of the United Auto Workers union picket outside the Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Michigan, on Sept. 26, 2023. DETROIT – Local United Auto Workers union leaders approved a tentative agreement Sunday with Ford Motor that includes $8.1 billion in new plant investments by the company, $5,000 ratification bonuses and other economic gains such as 25% compounded wage increases and improved profit-sharing payments. The 4 ½-year tentative agreement, which was announced Wednesday, will now be rolled out to 57,000 UAW-Ford members for regional informational meetings and then voting, the union said Sunday. UAW leaders outlined some details of the tentative agreement last week but released the summary and more than 800-page contract Sunday after local union leaders approved it for member voting. The UAW announced a tentative deal Saturday with Stellantis, however, it has yet to reach a new agreement with GM, despite the sides being close to a deal last week.

Persons: Shawn Fain, Chuck Browning Organizations: United Auto Workers, Plant, DETROIT – Local United Auto Workers, Ford, UAW, General Motors, Chrysler, Stellantis, GM, Ohio Assembly, Louisville Assembly, Ford Expedition, Lincoln, Kansas, Kansas City Assembly Locations: Michigan, Wayne , Michigan, Kentucky, Kansas City

The Broncos (3-5) were serenaded off the field to the sound of Taylor Swift's “Shake it Off” blaring throughout Empower Field. The Broncos handed Mahomes his first AFC West road loss in beating Kansas City's quarterback for the first time in 13 tries. Wilson threw a 4-yard touchdown pass to Williams and connected with Jeudy from 11 yards out for a 14-3 lead early in the second quarter. That marked the biggest lead by Denver since their 16-game skid against the Chiefs began on Nov. 15, 2015. Mahomes threw a 39-yard pass to Rashee Rice, setting up Butker's 34-yard field goal to make it 14-6.

Persons: — Russell Wilson, Justin Simmons, Patrick Mahomes, Taylor, Swift, Travis Kelce's, Mahomes, muffed, Javonte Williams, Jerry Jeudy, Courtland Sutton, Weeks, Drew Sanders, Mecole Hardman's, Wilson, Sutton, Nobody, Skyy Moore, Simmons, Harrison, Justin Reid, Wil Lutz's, Reid, Ja'Quan McMillian, Baron Browning, Jonathon Cooper, Williams, Rashee Rice, George Karlaftis, Willie Gay, Jerick McKinnon, LB Willie Gay, ___ Organizations: DENVER, Broncos, Kansas City, Chiefs, The Broncos, AFC West, Kansas, Denver, The Chiefs, LB, NEXT Chiefs, Face Miami Dolphins, Buffalo Locations: Kansas, Brittany, Frankfurt, Germany

☆ UAW reaches tentative agreement with Stellantis
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-28 | by ( Chris Isidore | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

New York CNN —The United Auto Workers union has reached a tentative agreement with Stellantis, which makes vehicles under the Dodge, Ram, Chrysler and Jeep brands, a source familiar with the negotiations told CNN. The tentative agreement with Stellantis Saturday follows a similar deal reached with Ford Wednesday. Ford’s deal gives union workers sizeable pay and benefits increases to contend with inflation that has taken a bite out of workers paychecks. When the cost-of-living adjustments and guaranteed raises are combined, they are expected to raise Ford workers’ wages 30% or more. At the time the Ford deal was announced, there were 16,600 members on strike at Ford, 14,200 on strike at GM and 14,600 on strike at Stellantis.

Persons: Ford, “, ”, Chuck Browning, Todd Dunn, Colin Langan, Wells, Stellantis, Langan Organizations: New, New York CNN, United Auto Workers, Stellantis, Dodge, Chrysler, Jeep, CNN, Ford, UAW, General Motors, GM, UAW Local, Kentucky, Sterling Locations: New York, Detroit, Stellantis, Sterling Heights , Michigan, Arlington , Texas, Arlington, Wells Fargo

☆ How the UAW and Ford struck a historic deal
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Vanessa Yurkevich | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

On Wednesday, after 41 days on strike, the UAW and Ford reached a tentative agreement. The Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan is where Ford Chairman and fourth generation controlling family member Bill Ford spoke about negotiations for the first-time last week. That speech perturbed UAW President Shawn Fain, who responded with a threat. What comes nextGetting the deal done with Ford was a big hurdle, according to a third source with knowledge. The Ford CEO said the deal the UAW was looking for would bankrupt the company.

Persons: Ford, Bill Ford, Shawn Fain, Jim Farley, ”, Fain, Benjamin Dictor, Dictor, Chuck Browning, “ Ford, “ We’re, Browning, Taylor Glascock, Farley, John Lawler, CNN’s Chris Isidore Organizations: CNN, United Auto Workers, Kentucky, Plant, UAW, Ford, General Motors, Arlington Assembly, UAW Ford Department, Ford UAW, GM, Ford Motor Co, Chicago Assembly Plant, General Motors Co, Stellantis, Bloomberg, Getty Locations: Louisville, GM’s, Arlington, Texas, Michigan, Rouge, Dearborn , Michigan, Dearborn, Chicago , Illinois

☆ UAW closing in on deals with both GM and Stellantis
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Chris Isidore | Vanessa Yurkevich | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

There are about 29,000 UAW members currently on strike at GM and Stellantis. That deal still needs to be ratified by a vote of 57,000 UAW members at Ford before it will take effect. If deals are reached at GM and Stellantis by Friday, the union could begin the ratification process at all three at the same time. Membership approval of any deals reached at GM and Stellantis would also be needed before they would take effect. Most recently it added the largest Stellantis plant in Sterling Heights, Michigan, on Monday, and the largest GM plant in Arlington, Texas, on Tuesday, shortly after GM reported stronger than expected quarterly earnings.

Persons: Ford, Colin Langan, Wells, Stellantis, Langan, “, ”, Chuck Browning, Todd Dunn Organizations: New, New York CNN, United Auto Workers, General Motors, UAW, GM, Ford, Stellantis, Sterling, UAW Local, Kentucky Locations: New York, Detroit, Stellantis, Sterling Heights , Michigan, Arlington , Texas, Arlington, Wells Fargo

☆ What’s next for the auto strikes
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( Chris Isidore | Vanessa Yurkevich | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

But the strike at the company isn’t quite over, and there’s no immediate end in sight for the strikes at General Motors and Stellantis. And pay increases will be even greater for some workers who were being paid at a lower pay tier. Generally union members do not return to work when a tentative agreement is reached until after a ratification vote is concluded. The Mack Trucks deal also had double-digit pay hikes of 10% immediately and 20% over the four-year life of that contract. But it didn’t have the COLA or some of the other gains the union achieved in the deal at Ford.

Persons: “, Ford, Isaiah Goddard, He’s, ”, Chuck Browning, Shawn Fain, “ We’re, John Deere, Mack Trucks, Fain, John Lawler Organizations: New, New York CNN, Ford, General Motors, United Auto Workers, Chrysler, CNN, UAW, Stellantis, GM, Management, Fortune, EV Locations: New York, Ypsilanti , Michigan, Ford

☆ Ford Reaches Tentative Labor Deal With UAW Six Weeks Into Historic Strike
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Nora Eckert | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

UAW union members have been striking over job security and pay as automakers push forward in developing EV’s, which require fewer workers and cost more in raw materials. So what does that mean for the future of auto workers and the union? Illustration: George Downs/The Wall Street JournalThe United Auto Workers secured a new tentative labor deal with Ford Motor Wednesday night, potentially ending a six-week strike at one automaker while negotiations continue at General Motors and Chrysler-parent Stellantis . The labor agreement, which is subject to a member vote before being ratified, contains a 25% wage increase during the span of the contract, including an 11% bump in the first year, according to Chuck Browning , the UAW’s lead bargainer with Ford. The overall increase, which will be spread out over four years, would put the top wage for assembly workers at around $40 an hour.

Persons: George Downs, Chuck Browning Organizations: Street, United Auto Workers, Ford Motor, General Motors, Chrysler, Ford

☆ Tod Browning’s Spooky Silent Films
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( David Mermelstein | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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Republican U.S. Senate candidate Don Blankenship speaks to his supporters during the primary election in Charleston, West Virginia, U.S., May 8, 2018. In his appeal to the Supreme Court, Blankenship's lawyers said that the media is now dominated by a few giant corporations that seek profits ahead of public service. The Supreme Court previously rejected Blankenship's appeals seeking to overturn his conviction. Thomas in 2019 took aim at the 1964 defamation precedent in an opinion he wrote when the court refused to consider reviving a defamation lawsuit against Bill Cosby. Thomas added that defamation law was historically a matter for the states, and should remain that way.

Persons: Don Blankenship, Lexi Browning, Donald Blankenship's, Blankenship, Sullivan, Clarence Thomas, Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Joe Manchin, Blankenship's, Bill Cosby, Andrew Chung, Will Dunham Organizations: Republican U.S, Senate, REUTERS, U.S, Supreme, Massey Energy, Fox News, MSNBC, U.S . Senate, New York Times, Conservative, Republican, Democratic, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Circuit, Big Branch, Thomson Locations: Charleston , West Virginia, U.S, West Virginia, Richmond , Virginia, Massey's

☆ US readies new Ukraine arms package despite tumult in Congress
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-06 | by ( Mike Stone | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Commander of the Joint Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Serhiy Nayev fires an American Browning M2 machine gun during a military exercise, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv region, Ukraine September 27, 2023. Those funds have allowed the Biden administration to send Kyiv arms, supplies and munitions despite the exclusion of new Ukraine aid from a stopgap spending bill passed by the House of Representatives last weekend to prevent a government shutdown. Biden has vowed to replenish stocks of arms sent to Ukraine. The Biden administration is also considering using a State Department grant program to send Ukraine additional military aid, a U.S. official said. Democrats, who strongly support aid to Ukraine, insist that Congress will back continued assistance.

Persons: Ukraine Serhiy Nayev, Gleb Garanich, Biden, congressionally, Lockheed Martin, Kevin McCarthy, Mitch McConnell, Mike Stone, Rami Ayyub Organizations: Joint Forces of, Armed Forces, REUTERS, Rights, Pentagon, Kyiv, Republicans, Ukraine Defense Contact, of Defense, General Dynamics, State Department, U.S, Republican, Thomson Locations: Ukraine, American, Kyiv region, Brussels, U.S

☆ Kyiv: Touting American-made guns, frontline Ukrainian soldiers fear potential loss of US military support
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-03 | by ( Vasco Cotovio Frederik Pleitgen Daniel Hodge Kostyantin Gak | Vasco Cotovio | Frederik Pleitgen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Donetsk region, Ukraine CNN —A Ukrainian solider rushes through the front-line in Klishchiivka, eastern Ukraine, as gun and artillery fire erupt around him. A Ukrainian soldier practices with an American-donated machine gun at a training ground in eastern Ukraine. Vasco Cotovio/CNNUnfazed by the artillery duels just a few miles away, over the battered city of Bakhmut, Vasyl, 44, practices with a US-made M2 Browning machine gun. “This is a large-caliber machine gun that works without failures,” said Vasyl, who asked that his last name not be used due to safety concerns. Back at the Ukrainian military training ground, smoke billows on the horizon but a momentary silence suggests an end to the artillery duel in the distance.

Persons: Panting, United States —, Joe Biden, Vasco Cotovio, ”, Vasyl, “, Oleksiy Danilov, Vladimir, Putin, ” Danilov, it’s Organizations: Ukraine CNN —, Russian, United, Ukraine, CNN, Ukraine’s National, US Locations: Donetsk, Ukraine, Ukrainian, Klishchiivka, American, Belgian, United States, Kyiv, Washington, Bakhmut, Soviet

Pedestrians pass the James R. Browning U.S. Court of Appeals Building, home of the 9th U.S. On Tuesday afternoon, the court plans to hear arguments regarding President Donald Trump's temporary travel ban on people from seven Muslim-majority countries. ... Acquire Licensing Rights Read moreLaw Firms Idaho Law Group FollowSept 29 (Reuters) - Idaho can fully enforce its near-total abortion ban after a U.S. appeals court lifted a lower court order that had partially blocked it. Idaho in 2020 passed a so-called "trigger" law that would ban abortion if the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision that had established a right to abortion nationwide. Democratic President Joe Biden's administration sued Idaho in August, saying the state ban conflicted with the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), a federal law requiring hospitals to "stabilize" patients with emergency medical conditions.

Persons: James R, Donald Trump's, Donald Trump, Raúl Labrador, Roe, Wade, Joe Biden's, James Wesley Hendrix, Lawrence VanDyke, Brendan Pierson, Alexia Garamfalvi, David Gregorio Our Organizations: Browning U.S, U.S, Circuit, Appeals, Firms, Republican, Donald Trump . Idaho, U.S . Department of Justice, Supreme, Democratic, Idaho, Labor, District, Thomson Locations: San Francisco , California, Firms Idaho, Idaho, San Francisco, U.S, New York

CINCINNATI (AP) — Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow is still day to day with lingering pain from a calf injury, coach Zac Taylor said Thursday. "So giving him some time is best.”Burrow strained his right calf muscle on the second day of on-field workouts in training camp on July 27. Burrow said he “tweaked” the calf injury on the Bengals’ final drive of Sunday's 3-point loss to the Ravens. Just before the start of training camp in 2022, Burrow had an emergency appendectomy. They won the next eight games to finish the regular season and capture the AFC North title for the second straight season.

Persons: Joe Burrow, Zac Taylor, It's, “, ” Taylor, ” Burrow, Burrow, Tee Higgins, Higgins, Jake Browning, Taylor, that’s, you’ve, Jake, ___ Organizations: CINCINNATI, — Bengals, Pro, Los Angeles Rams, Bengals, Ravens, Browns, NFL, Super, Halloween, AFC, Baltimore, Kansas City Chiefs, ___ AP Locations: Cleveland, Cincinnati, Buffalo

Initial public offerings are back, warts and all. After a two-year dearth of new listings, shares of the grocery delivery company Instacart closed their first day of trading on Tuesday at $33.70, up 12 percent from their initial public offering price of $30. The performance signaled that investors were eager to take a chance on young tech companies — but only at the right price. But even with the early stock price pop, the company’s valuation remained a far cry from the $39 billion that investors assigned it in the private market in 2021. “The markets will always ebb and flow,” she said, adding that she was more focused on what she could control.

Persons: Fidji Simo

Instacart on Monday priced its shares at $30 each for its initial public offering, at the top of its expected range, in a sign of renewed demand for tech stocks. The San Francisco-based grocery delivery company had estimated that its shares would be priced at $28 to $30 a share. Instacart raised $660 million in the offering and was valued at $9.9 billion, significantly below its last private fund-raising round in 2021, which valued the company at $39 billion. Many companies that raised money during the boom times of 2020 and 2021 have slashed their soaring valuations over the last year. Before last week, this had been the worst year for I.P.O.s since 2009, according to EquityZen, a marketplace for private stocks.

Persons: Instacart Organizations: Nasdaq, I.P.O.s Locations: San Francisco

The truth is we are going to wreck the billionaire economy," said UAW President Shawn Fain. UAW vice president Chuck Browning, who is leading talks with Ford, told a rally of hundreds of UAW workers in downtown Detroit on Friday afternoon that recent talks have made "good progress, but we have far to go." Striking workers said "tier two" employees can make only half the hourly wages of senior UAW workers and get worse benefits. GM said on Thursday the UAW wage and benefits proposals would cost the automaker $100 billion, but did not elaborate. Biden's likely opponent, former president Donald Trump, on Friday criticized the shift to EVs as a job-killer for the UAW.

Persons: Ford, We’re, Shawn Fain, Chuck Browning, Joe Biden, Bruce Baumhower, Rebecca Cook, Arthur Wheaton, Jim Farley, Mary Barra, Bernie Sanders, “, Sofus Nielsen, Biden, Julie Su, Gene Sperling, White, Stellantis, Fain, Biden's, Donald Trump, Joseph White, Kevin Krolicki, David Shepardson, Steve Holland, Mehr Bedi, David Gaffen, Peter Henderson, Matthew Lewis, Chris Reese Organizations: DETROIT, United Auto Workers, General Motors, Ford Motor, Chrysler, Ford Bronco, Chevrolet, UAW, Ford, Detroit, Ford Michigan Assembly Plant, REUTERS, Cornell's School of Industrial, Labor, CBS, Reuters Graphics, Tesla, GM, Thomson Locations: Chevrolet Colorado, Kansas, Detroit, Toledo , Ohio, Wayne , Michigan, Barra, Wayne, Milan, Washington, Bengaluru

When Fidji Simo took over as chief executive of Instacart in 2021, the grocery delivery start-up’s growth was cratering as its pandemic boom ebbed. Ms. Simo, a former executive at Meta with experience in advertising, played to her strengths. She also hatched a plan to sell software tools and other products to grocery companies to help improve shopping experiences, they said. Then she embarked on a good-will tour to visit the grocery companies and hosted their executives at her home in Carmel, Calif.As Instacart prepares to go public next week, it is a markedly different company. Envisioned in 2012 as a service that matched people at home with contract workers who would shop for them and deliver groceries, it has increasingly focused on advertising and software products as its delivery business has slowed.

Persons: Fidji Simo, Simo, Brands, Instacart Organizations: Meta Locations: Carmel , Calif

☆ New Lyft Feature Allows Women to Match Rides With Other Women
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Kellen Browning | More About Kellen Browning | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The feature, Women+ Connect, will allow women and nonbinary riders and drivers to make being connecting with each other for trips a priority by toggling on a setting in the app. The goal, Lyft said, is for women to feel safer using its platform, and to increase the number of female Lyft drivers. About half of Lyft’s passengers but just 23 percent of its drivers are women, the company said. “Women drivers tell us it’s hard to drive at night,” said Jody Kelman, Lyft’s executive vice president of customers. “We need to remove a barrier for women drivers today.”

Persons: Lyft, ”, Jody Kelman

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