The gig economy has brought lots of convenience to our daily lives. We can now hail a ride or nab a place to stay for the night with just a click of a button. But could we be paying a price for all this convenience? In this post we take a look at a British journalist who exposed poor and possible dangerous practices on the Uber Eats platform. BBC News in the United Kingdom recently conducted an investigation in which they were able to register a fake burger restaurant on Uber Eats and actually have someone place and receive an [...]

If you are a Starwood hotels rewards club member, any of your personal information stored in their database may have just been hacked. Marriott, who purchased the Starwood hotel brands in 2016 making them the largest hotel chain in the world, has just released information about a breach in the security of their reservation system. Starwood hotels is a conglomeration of several hotels including W Hotels, Sheraton, Westin, St. Regis, The Luxury Collection, Four Points, Aloft, Element, and Le Meridien as well as other Starwood properties. So far, the data breach has only been discovered in the Starwood brands of [...]

Unless you have been living under a rock, you may have heard about the lawsuit slapped against Tesla’s Elon Musk by US financial regulator, SEC, thanks to a series of tweets he made about taking the firm into private ownership. The Securities and Exchange Commission believes that Elon misled investors, thus leading to a panic in the market even though the tweets had no basis. In a tweet, Elon noted that he was thinking about taking Tesla off the stock market and structure up a go-private plan. In fact, he went ahead to claim that he had funding secured already [...]

Amazon has become the leader in the online retail industry over the last decade. In fact, the industry has suffered major shifts and losses in quite a few areas. However, the mega online retailer has remained at the center of the drive to make all retailers develop an online presence. Today, the company’s footprint has become a global giant for retail products shifting the focus in the industry to expand an internet footprint for almost every major retailer in the industry. Because of their massive consumer reach, companies that have failed to give their consumers an online portal have often [...]