April 24, 2024
Uber for Business Adds ‘Delegate Profiles’ for Executive Assistants

Uber for Business has designed a new tool to make it easier for executive assistants (EAs) to arrange corporate travel.  The company’s new delegate profiles enable EAs to manage ground transportation for...

April 24, 2024
DoorDash and Walgreens Team to Offer SNAP/EBT Payments

DoorDash has teamed with Walgreens to offer SNAP/EBT payments at nearly 7,800 locations. According to its announcement Wednesday (April 24), DoorDash is the first platform that enables SNAP customers to make purchases directly from Walgreens...

April 24, 2024
Nvidia to Acquire Run:ai to Help Customers Manage AI Computing Resources

Nvidia plans to acquire Israeli startup Run:ai, a Kubernetes-based workload management and orchestration software provider. The chipmaker said in a Wednesday (April 24) blog post that it has entered into a definitive agreement...

April 24, 2024
Musk’s Master Robotaxi Plan: Giving Tesla the Uber, Airbnb Treatment

The global electric vehicle (EV) marketplace is seeing demand suffer under ongoing macro pressures. That’s why, according to Tesla CEO Elon Musk, it’s a good thing that Tesla is not...

April 24, 2024
Uber and Klarna Team on New Payment Options for Rides,...

Uber and Klarna have joined forces to offer users new ways to pay for rides and deliveries. The collaboration, announced Wednesday (April 24), lets users in the U.S., Germany and Klarna’s home country Sweden...

April 19, 2024
This Week in AI: Proposed Federal Oversight, Cybersecurity, Gaming Development

This week in artificial intelligence (AI) news, Sen. Mitt Romney’s initiative for greater federal oversight of AI faces challenges, game developer RiseAngle is harnessing AI to refine its workflows and the NSA...

April 19, 2024
Forage and Uber Eats Partner on SNAP EBT Grocery Delivery

Forage and Uber Eats have partnered to offer online purchasing and delivery of groceries to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) recipients. The partnership will offer SNAP EBT grocery delivery...

April 19, 2024
The Increased Importance of Economics in Cartel Cases

The last two decades have seen a significant amount of actual or alleged cartel conspiracies uncovered, particularly in the financial sector, such as the discovery of the LIBOR rigging and...

April 19, 2024
Economic Analysis in Criminal Antitrust Violations: A Review of Recent...

The use of economic analysis as a tool to assess issues in per se criminal antitrust violations has been a source of debate. On one hand, there have been questions...