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...“In some cases, they’re still a little apprehensive to allow contractors in their home,” said Mr Ellison....
...Business groups and think-tanks are making a mistake to cast Uber v London as a totemic fight to preserve capitalism....
...Making Uber the go-between for its drivers’ taxes saved the province from having to assess thousands of individual contractors, relieved the drivers from onerous paperwork, and allowed Uber to continue operating...
...Shannon Liss-Riordan, a lawyer for the drivers in O’Connor v Uber Technologies, the main case before the court, said she was considering appealing to the full Ninth Circuit, and urged drivers to take their...
...Not months.” - Zion President, Dustin Guinn #israel $zn — Zion Oil & Gas, Inc....
...Uber is embroiled in dozens of lawsuits across the US, including a class-action case in California and Massachusetts over whether Uber drivers are employees or independent contractors, writes Leslie Hook...
...Algos v quants A rising fund manager star at T Rowe Price predicts that computers will become increasingly important in asset management, supplanting the industry’s traditional backbone of human stock pickers...
...A more significant uptick in iPhone security came with 2014’s release of iOS 8, following the revelations by Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor, about the extent of government...
...In 1996, a landmark ruling in the case of Bernstein v. Department of Justice established that computer code was free speech, protected under the First Amendment of the US Constitution....
...The setback could give a timely boost to Sea Launch, which is 95 per cent owned by Energia, Russia’s biggest space contractor and the leader in manned space exploration....
...US defence contractors accustomed to a ravenous domestic customer are finding themselves increasingly dependent on overseas sales to keep open their assembly lines as the US cuts defence spending....
...Internal feuds thus might finish the job that law enforcement – infuriated by attacks on the CIA, FBI and US defence contractors – has barely begun....
...Britain’s largest defence contractor has invested heavily in the US in recent years....
...Noble, the offshore oil and gas drilling contractor, said it could benefit from contracts with Brazil’s Petrobras worth $4bn, driving the shares up 3.4 per cent to $49.67....
...For a $55 fee, the operators of this small California company will help you get a loan by employing you as an “independent contractor”....
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