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Google “hijacked millions of customers and orders” from restaurants, lawsuit says

Enlarge Google is being sued by a Florida restaurant group alleging that the tech company} has been setting up unauthorized pages to capture food orders rather than directing them to the restaurant’s own site. Google uses “bait-and-switch” tactics to get customers to place takeout or pickup orders through “new, unauthorized, and deceptively branded webpages, ” […]

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Carjackings are up—and gig workers are getting victimized

Enlarge / A DoorDash Inc. delivery person arranges an order in the back of a vehicle outside of a DoorDash Kitchens location in Redwood City, California. (credit: Bloomberg | Getty Images) A DoorDash driver named Jeffrey Fang was returning to his minivan in San Francisco after completing a delivery last week when he noticed a […]