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The Broader Impacts of Prop 22 Passing in a Landsl

Source: Small Business Labs
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Proposition 22, a California ballot measure calling for the exemption of rideshare and delivery drivers being classified as employees, passed by what could be called a landslide - 58% for vs. 41% against.  Prop 22 passing is a major win for Uber, Lyft, DoorDash and other app-base

Reddit’s Super Generous Work From Home Policy Spar

Source: SFist - San Francisco News,
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The San Francisco Business Times reports that Reddit announced a very generous new work-from-home policy where they won’t slash your pay if you move thousands of miles away to a cheaper region. In a company blog post, Reddit said that “To support employees to live where they want

Big tech blows a collective raspberry at the House

Source: eCommerce – TechCrunch
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The substance of Amazon’s argument against the need for antitrust intervention is the top-line claim that retail is “thriving and extraordinarily competitive” — with the tech giant saying it accounts for a tiny fraction of global retail and isn’t even the largest US retailer by r

The TikTok deal solves quite literally nothing

Source: TechCrunch
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Oracle, whose cloud infrastructure services run a laughable fourth to AWS, Alphabet*, and Microsoft, will be taking a 20 percent stake in TikTok alongside partner Walmart in what will be an investment round before TikTok Global (as the new entity will be called) goes public on a

$100,000 in bribes helped fraudulent Amazon seller

Source: Ars Technica
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Six people were indicted on allegations of paying over $100,000 in bribes to Amazon employees and contractors as part of a scheme to give third-party sellers unfair advantages on the Amazon marketplace.

MIT Economists on the Impact of COVID-19 on Labor

Source: Small Business Labs
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1.  Telepresence: The essay points out that the shift to remote and telepresence is " is so self-evident that it might escape notice." But if there is a substantial reduction in the number of people working in offices and/or traveling to meet in offices, there will be much less n

U.S. Census Pulse Survey Finds Small Businesses Ge

Source: Small Business Labs
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Not a great sign for small businesses in need “The data shows 74.9% of small businesses applied for loans from PPP). However, only about half (38%) received funding“