Uber is laying off 400 employees from its marketing team across 75 offices, the company told the New York Times. Before the cuts, it had about 1,200 marketing employees.
Jon McNeill is stepping down as chief operating officer of ride-hail company Lyft, less than 18 months after joining from Tesla, according to CNBC.
Why it matters: No one was expecting such a high-level departure so soon after Lyft's IPO, which explains why the stock is down more than 2% on the news
Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.), a 2020 presidential candidate, plans to introduce a bill that would limit the types of data that smart device makers like Amazon and Google can collect. He and Dan dig in on today's Pro Rata Podcast:
When you think of impressive tech company campuses, Adobe's San Jose skyscrapers don't always come to mind. But they've come a long way since the drab gray office-laden areas that the company first set up in the 1990s.
The big picture: Thanks to ongoing renovations, most teams have done away with offices in favor of the Silicon Valley standard of open-plan cubicles combined with conference rooms and quiet spaces.
Charlie Ergen knows there are plenty of people who don't believe Dish has the skill or commitment to truly rival the national wireless carriers. But answering to critics is not where Dish's chairman is putting his energy.
"I don't personally believe we are going to change any skeptics' minds, and we are not going to try to. We're just going to do it. We'll go out and build a 5G city, and then people can see it and see why that is different and better."
— Ergen told me in an interview on Friday
What's happening: As first reported by Axios, Ergen's plan for Dish is to transform the Boost prepaid brand it's getting from Sprint into a full-service wireless effort and then go out and build a nationwide 5G network, one city at a time. Ideally, Ergen wants the first city with Dish's 5G network running by the end of 2020.
YouTube, the Google-owned video platform that gave rise to dozens of famous video stars, is now facing pushback from the very community that it has worked to build over the past decade.
Why it matters: YouTube's creator backlash is occurring as other user-generated video platforms begin to emerge as creators' favorites — most notably, Chinese-owned karaoke-style video app TikTok.
Last year for the first time ever, the U.S. share of global artificial intelligence startup funding deals fell to less than half the world's total.
By the numbers: The U.S. was home to nearly 75% of all deals in 2013, data shows, but is fast losing share in the startup market — a key driver of innovation.
