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Judges reject Uber and Lyft s requests to consider their drivers independent contractors. Juries will have to decide whether the drivers are contractors or employees.
Lyft raises $530 million at a valuation of $2.5 billion. The funding round was led by Rakuten.
Action on revenge porn: Twitter updates privacy policy to forbid the uploading of non-consensual nude photos and videos.
23andMe hires chief science officer for new therapeutics group that will seek to discover new drugs.
Snapchat reportedly raising $200 million from Alibaba at $15 billion valuation.
Hillary Clinton dropped in on an eBay women s summit Wednesday.
The Guardian clarifies and corrects its reporting last year that the Whisper anonymous app violated user privacy. The Guardian clarified that Whisper s tracking of users is in line with standard industry practice. (The Wall Street Journal has more.)
Nielsen streaming video report: 41 percent of U.S. homes have access to subscription services; Netflix remains most popular (36 percent), followed by Amazon (13 percent) and Hulu (6.5 percent).
Toyota recalls RAV4 EVs to repair Tesla component that poses crash risk.
Photo: Logan Green, co-founder and CEO of Lyft, with his company s glowstache, which replaced the furry mustache Lyft drivers used to put on their car bumpers. (Noah Berger/Associated Press)
