Sam Harnett

Uber and Lyft jolted the taxi business. A credit union that loaned money to drivers lost its case against the city's transit agency.

"Dasher," "tasker," "driver-partner." How companies pick worker nicknames that reflect the argument that workers are contractors, not employees.

The ballot initiative in California would allow companies like Uber and Lyft to keep classifying workers as contractors.

A glut of grapes on the market, the pandemic and fires that damaged or destroyed wineries. Now, grapes tainted by smoke may be unusable.

The number of available company names that hasn't been trademarked is getting smaller and smaller.

In 2018, U.S. venture capital investment surpassed the 2000 dot-com peak for the first time. According to the financial data company PitchBook, investors put some $130 billion into thousands of U.S. companies. Many of these businesses will not make it, and as some flame out, they’ll leave behind a trail of debt. This is exactly […]

"We have to adapt every single thing we do," one eatery owner says.

The economically depressed city of Stockton, California is experimenting with Universal Basic Income.

Some small farms that participate in community-supported agriculture say that meal kit companies are cutting into their profits.

Men are shelling out for barbershops that have nostalgic atmospheres.