Articles by David Ingram

Rivals Uber, Waymo in Talks About Driverless Ride Hailing Partnership

Uber Technologies Inc. is talking with Alphabet Inc.’s autonomous driving unit Waymo about using its technology on Uber’s ride-hailing app, Uber Chief Executive Dara Khosrowshahi said on Wednesday, signaling a possible thaw in relations between the firms. Khosrowshahi said on …

Facebook to Restrict Number of Users Protected Under EU’s New Privacy Law: Reuters

If a new European law restricting what companies can do with people’s online data went into effect tomorrow, almost 1.9 billion Facebook Inc. users around the world would be protected by it. The online social network is making changes that …

Cautious Facebook CEO Tells Congress ‘Details Matter’ On Any Privacy Regulation

Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday told lawmakers that his own personal data was included in that of 87 million or so Facebook users that was improperly shared with political consultancy Cambridge Analytica. But he pushed back on …

New European Privacy Rules (GDPR) Pose Major Challenge for Facebook

Facebook faces substantial business risks from new European Union privacy rules set to take effect in May, a looming reality that came into stark relief over the weekend with revelations that a controversial political consulting firm had improperly obtained personal …

Fired Engineer Sues Google Alleging Anti-Conservative Political Bias

A former Google engineer fired after he asserted in a memo that biological causes were behind tech industry gender inequality sued his former employer on Monday, saying he was discriminated against as a white man with conservative political views. James …

Massachusetts Tax on Ridesharing to Go to Taxis, Infrastructure

Massachusetts is preparing to levy a 5-cent fee per trip on ride-hailing apps such as Uber and Lyft and spend the money on the traditional taxi industry, a subsidy that appears to be the first of its kind in the …

Business Groups Sue to Thwart U.S. Crackdown on Corporate Inversions

Two business groups sued the Obama administration on Thursday over a crackdown on U.S. companies that try to reduce their U.S. taxes by rebasing abroad in a process known as inversion. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Texas Association …

Sex Claim Filing Against Dershowitz a Mistake, Say Florida Lawyers; Defamation Claims Settled

Prominent U.S. lawyer Alan Dershowitz and two victims’ rights attorneys on Friday withdrew claims from a Florida court that they defamed each other during a legal fight about a woman who said she was trafficked for sex as an underage …

Why No GM Employees Have Been Prosecuted for Faulty Ignitions

The chief U.S. prosecutor in Manhattan blamed gaps in federal law and “siloing” within General Motors Co. for the failure so far to charge any individual employees who may be responsible for faulty ignition switches linked to 124 deaths. The …

Virginia Fraternity Chapter Plans Lawsuit Against ‘Reckless’ Rolling Stone

The University of Virginia fraternity chapter at the center of Rolling Stone magazine’s retracted article “A Rape on Campus” said on Monday that it planned to sue the magazine for what it called “reckless” reporting that hurt its reputation. The …