Other stuff: Silicon Valley Bank, Sam Bankman-Fried co's DoorDash bill

Mar 19, 2023

This week’s Other Stuff brought to you by belated headline of the week: Salad Chain That Thought It Was a Tech Firm Looks Wilted.

Didi fights back in China. Via acquires Citymapper. Uber wins big in court. Uber trials 10 hours of free childcare a week for UK drivers. Uber Black driver deactivated on suspicion of splitting his account. Ride-hail drivers push to unionize in Massachusetts. Illinois House passes bill to hold ride-hail firms responsible for their drivers. France’s BlaBlaCar in talks to acquire carpool startup Klaxit. Driverless taxi firm Cruise offering free rides to S.F. hospitality workers. Palo Alto offering free municipal ride-share service through early April. Anthony Levandowski loses bid to avoid paying taxes on trade secrets settlement with Google.

Oonee aims to make safe bike parking spots as common as bus shelters. Illinois could be the next state to introduce e-bike subsidies. Lime trials seated e-scooters in Nashville. Dott plans to double lifespan of shared e-scooters. Lyft drops Motivate as operator of Portland bike-share system. Helbiz regains Nasdaq compliance. E-Trikes Are Coming to Rescue the Aging Suburbs. The freedom and hazards of commuting by bike in L.A.

Deliveroo cuts costs to trim net losses. Uber and Grubhub can’t move price-fixing suit to arbitration. Boston aims to measure traffic and congestion from food-delivery apps. Grubhub CEO Adam DeWitt resigns. Uber Eats partners with first U.S. airport. Home-cooked meals marketplace Shef raises $74 million, plans U.S. expansion. Toronto-based Flashfood tackles food insecurity and reduces grocery waste. Ghost kitchens on the rise in Memphis. Kroger to deploy driverless grocery trucks in Dallas. The Brooklyn Grocery Store That Feeds Nostalgia. Sam Bankman-Fried companies racked up $400,000 DoorDash bill.

Boston’s fare-free bus pilot is saving money, easing commutes for low-income riders. Germany green-lights new €49-a-month public transport ticket. San Francisco transit agencies face “worst-case scenarios” for revenue, potential service cuts, leaders say. Paris rots under mounds of rubbish as bin collectors extend strike. New York sanitation commissioner says clean curbs pilot ‘not scalable.’ NYC Is Looking for Its Next Artificial Intelligence Czar. A CUNY students’ map of NYC’s park benches could help save them. Inside the movement to remake America’s city streets. Where the sidewalk ends.

Millions paid in bonuses to UK Silicon Valley Bank staff days after £1 rescue. Start-ups learn the hard way how to manage cash after SVB’s collapse. How Silicon Valley learnt to love the government. Inside the Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. ‘Old-School’ Signature Bank Collapsed After Its Big Crypto Leap. Tiger Global Writes Down Venture Funds’ Bets by 33% in 2022. New Airbnb experiences for tired adults. There’s A Racial Bias on Police Facebook Pages. Searching for friends in Mark Zuckerberg’s deserted fantasyland.

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