(Reuters) – California and three of its largest cities urged a state judge on Thursday to issue a preliminary injunction requiring Uber Technologies Inc and Lyft Inc to classify their drivers as employees rather than as contractors. FILE PHOTO: A sign marks a …
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Booking Holdings Inc. reported its biggest-ever quarterly decline in revenue, showing the extent to which the coronavirus has gutted the travel industry. Still, the results were better than Wall Street was expecting and the company said it’s starting to see signs …
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Pirating TV is now a billion-dollar industry. Scammers have figured out to leverage stolen content and off-the-shelf streaming technologies to deliver cut-rate entertainment to consumers. The largest growing sect of illegal streaming enterprises is called pirate …
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Gas prices dropped a nickel this week in the Texoma region, AAA Texas announced Thursday in its Weekend Gas Watch. The average price fell to $1.74 for a gallon of unleaded fuel in the Sherman-Denison metro area — which tied with Amarillo for the …
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Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry ritholtz says that although it appears as if the stock market has decoupled from the economy, it is instead telling us
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