Why the tech giant’s aggressive approach to growth may only encourage future startups. Plus: the latest in Elon’s Twitterverse
A massive leak of confidential internal documents about Uber has cast new light on the strategies the cab-hailing company took to reach the top of its game. Goodbye “fake it till you make it”, hello “break it till you make it” – the rules, the law, and anything else that stands in your way.
From our lead story:
A leaked trove of confidential files has revealed the inside story of how the tech giant Uber flouted laws, duped police, exploited violence against drivers and secretly lobbied governments during its aggressive global expansion.
The cache of files, which span 2013 to 2017, includes more than 83,000 emails, iMessages and WhatsApp messages, including often frank and unvarnished communications between Kalanick and his top team of executives.
Apple is taking solid action against state-sponsored hacking, letting at-risk users voluntarily harden their devices with a forthcoming “lockdown mode”.
Crypto bank Celsius has been called a “Ponzi scheme” in a new lawsuit, while stablecoin Tether says it has liquidated a loan to the company without any loss. British crypto unicorn Blockchain.com is set to lose $270m (£227m) to Three Arrows Capital, though.
The FT’s done a deep dive into what went wrong at Celsius (everything).
Sony is deleting movies that people thought they had bought and paid for, and Ubisoft is doing the same for games.
Apple has spent eight years building a self-driving car, and still hasn’t said a word about it. What’s up with tech’s most notorious vapourware?
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Why the tech giant’s aggressive approach to growth may only encourage future startups. Plus: the latest in Elon’s Twitterverse
A massive leak of confidential internal documents about Uber has cast new light on the strategies the cab-hailing company took to reach the top of its game. Goodbye “fake it till you make it”, hello “break it till you make it” – the rules, the law, and anything else that stands in your way.
From our lead story:
A leaked trove of confidential files has revealed the inside story of how the tech giant Uber flouted laws, duped police, exploited violence against drivers and secretly lobbied governments during its aggressive global expansion.
The cache of files, which span 2013 to 2017, includes more than 83,000 emails, iMessages and WhatsApp messages, including often frank and unvarnished communications between Kalanick and his top team of executives.
Apple is taking solid action against state-sponsored hacking, letting at-risk users voluntarily harden their devices with a forthcoming “lockdown mode”.
Crypto bank Celsius has been called a “Ponzi scheme” in a new lawsuit, while stablecoin Tether says it has liquidated a loan to the company without any loss. British crypto unicorn Blockchain.com is set to lose $270m (£227m) to Three Arrows Capital, though.
The FT’s done a deep dive into what went wrong at Celsius (everything).
Sony is deleting movies that people thought they had bought and paid for, and Ubisoft is doing the same for games.
Apple has spent eight years building a self-driving car, and still hasn’t said a word about it. What’s up with tech’s most notorious vapourware? Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian