Ridehail giant Uber is making a big push to beef up its trucking business by purchasing logistics service Transplace for about $2.25 billion, intending to turn its Uber Freight unit into a top player in arranging and tracking shipments of goods.

Yes, it did not stop ALL the scalpers, but it was a lot easier to reserve a Steam Deck preorder compared to the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S.

California's fair employment agency filed a lawsuit against gaming giant Activision Blizzard on Tuesday, accusing the Call of Duty publisher of a "pervasive frat boy" in which female employees were routinely harassed. In one alleged incident, a "newly promoted male supervisor delegated his responsibilities to his now female subordinates in favor of playing Call of Duty," the filing said.

These buyers often come armed with the kind of financial firepower ordinary Americans can't hope to match, housing experts say.

Worker advocates say prison labor programs exploit workers with few options

Netflix reported earnings after the bell. Here are the results.

Oil producing nations have agreed to increase their output, with the aim of reducing prices and easing pressure on the world economy. The Opec cartel and partners such as Russia will boost supply from August after prices climbed to two-and-half-year highs during the pandemic.

Exclusive: Meat companies are routinely underreporting emissions, undermining climate science and casting doubt on plant-based alternatives, an investigation claims.

Netflix is set to report the smallest growth in subscribers in a decade next week, as the flow of young fans who have fuelled its meteoric rise slows down, leading it to target tech-wary over-55s. The streaming giant expects to have added just 1 million new subscribers when it reports second quarter results on Tuesday, the lowest number of new signups since 2011, when it was splitting its postal DVD and streaming operations.

Fakespot, an app that analyzes Amazon reviews to determine which ones are fake, is no longer available for iOS. Amazon has successfully convinced Apple to remove it from the App Store after the company raised concerns that the application provides misleading information and creates potential security vulnerabilities. The e-commerce giant has confirmed to Engadget that it reported Fakespot for investigation.

Reactions were mixed when Apple last month revealed its approach to flexible working post-pandemic. CEO Tim Cook announced that staff would be expected to return to the office three days a week, but would, with line management approval, be free to work remotely on Wednesdays and Fridays.

The best part of this year’s Allen & Co. moguls conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, was the speed dating. That’s how several attendees described the atmosphere at the annual gathering of business

Apple has expressed caution about a proposal to increase the share of streaming music revenue paid to artists from the current typical 16% to a far higher 50% rate. The British government has proposed a “complete reset” of the business model for streaming music, so that artists and songwriters are better compensated.

Netflix has flirted with video games and interactivity before, but now it sees Fortnite and other gaming obsessions as one of its biggest competitors for your finite attention.

Sam Bankman-Fried, the CEO of crypto exchange FTX, said in an interview with the Financial Times that acquiring Goldman Sachs or CME Group was "not out of the question" should FTX grow big enough. "If we are the biggest exchange, [buying Goldman or CME] is not out of the question at all," Bankman-Fried told the FT.

Pandemic layoffs pushed many employees in hospitality to find jobs in new growth areas. Better pay, perks and career prospects are keeping many of them from going back.

Robocalls are out of control—and they’re getting more and more clever in convincing people to answer them. To combat that, Verizon has announced an update to its Call Filter app, which will send suspected spam calls that have your area code and prefix directly to voicemail.

Apple aims to manufacture the batteries that will be used in its autonomous vehicle in the United States, rather than sourcing them from suppliers in other countries, according to a new report from DigiTimes.

It’s been a year since Amazon fired Chris Smalls for organizing a rally to protest COVID-19 conditions. Now, he’s trying to unionize his former warehouse, and he won’t stop until there’s worker justice at Amazon.

The deal is going to get some extra scrutiny.