Your Private Driver: Everyone Out of the Pool

(This is a weekly column that offers news, insights, analysis, and user tips for rideshare platforms like Uber and Lyft. Look for it every Monday after the live show, right here on dailytechnewsshow.com.) When it was announced almost two years ago, UberPool seemed like a logical next step in the evolution of ridesharing. If two separateContinue reading “Your Private Driver: Everyone Out of the Pool”

Weekly Tech Views (The Tech – No Logic Blog) – July 23, 2016 (Sort of)

Real tech stories. Really shaky analysis. Okay, I took a vacation this week, which means today you get the Weekly Tech Vacation Blog. Not a blog post about my vacation, the details of which require a security clearance well above your pay grade, but a post which requires no additional work on my part thanContinue reading “Weekly Tech Views (The Tech – No Logic Blog) – July 23, 2016 (Sort of)”

Your Private Driver: The Five-Star Experience

(This is a weekly column that offers news, insights, analysis, and user tips for rideshare platforms like Uber and Lyft. Look for it every Monday after the live show, right here ondailytechnewsshow.com.) Most people are aware by now that a rating system exists for both drivers and passengers when using the Uber and Lyft platforms.Continue reading “Your Private Driver: The Five-Star Experience”

Weekly Tech Views (The Tech – No Logic Blog) – July 16, 2016

Real tech stories. Really shaky analysis. The tech news was just about as varied as can be last week, with topics ranging from playing Pokemon Go to stock prices affected by Pokemon Go to the cost of playing Pokemon Go to the fitness benefits of Pokemon Go to the social benefits of Pokemon Go. AndContinue reading “Weekly Tech Views (The Tech – No Logic Blog) – July 16, 2016”

Your Private Driver: Lost and Found

(This is a weekly column that offers news, insights, analysis, and user tips for rideshare platforms like Uber and Lyft. Look for it every Monday after the live show, right here on dailytechnewsshow.com.) A week ago, the unthinkable happened: my wife, carrying the only set of keys between us, left them in the back seat ofContinue reading “Your Private Driver: Lost and Found”

Your Private Driver: Picking Up the Kids

(This is the second entry of a new weekly column that offers news, insights, analysis, and user tips for rideshare platforms like Uber and Lyft. Look for it every Monday after the live show, right here on dailytechnewsshow.com.) For busy parents, Uber has become an essential part of their daily routine. The logistics of maintaining aContinue reading “Your Private Driver: Picking Up the Kids”

Weekly Tech Views (The Tech – No Logic Blog) – July 9, 2016

Real tech stories. Really shaky analysis. Thanks for taking time from bagging Pokemon and waging heated neighborhood battles to claim area gyms to read The Weekly Tech Views, the Pokemon Go of tech analysis. (1)  For the week of July 4 – 8, 2016…  Sponsor Them All As everyone knows by now, Pokemon Go, theContinue reading “Weekly Tech Views (The Tech – No Logic Blog) – July 9, 2016”

Weekly Tech Views (The Tech – No Logic Blog) – July 2, 2016

Real tech stories. Really shaky analysis. The Declaration of Independence was supposed to include a heartfelt explanation of the virtues of reading corrupted tech news on a weekly basis and how that was really the foundation of our newly-gained freedom, but those stupid feathers-dipped-in-ink or whatever the hell Thomas Jefferson wrote with back then keptContinue reading “Weekly Tech Views (The Tech – No Logic Blog) – July 2, 2016”

Your Private Driver: Safety First

(This is the first of a new weekly column that offers news, insights, analysis, and user tips for rideshare platforms like Uber and Lyft. Look for it every Monday after the live show, right here on dailytechnewsshow.com.)   Passenger safety is definitely a hot topic in the world of ride-sharing. Hardly a week goes byContinue reading “Your Private Driver: Safety First”

Analysis of the Proposed Tesla/Solar City Merger

This was sent to us by Brian Henry, Assistant Professor of Finance at Benedictine College and listener to the show. Thanks Brian! Elon Musk’s company is going to buy Elon Musk’s other company, which seems to be a strange sort of event. There is a lot going on with this sort of deal, and itContinue reading “Analysis of the Proposed Tesla/Solar City Merger”