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Yelp is Screwing Over Restaurants By Quietly Replacing Their Phone Numbers

Yelp is Screwing Over Restaurants By Quietly Replacing Their Phone Numbers

The phone numbers add tracking before connecting to a restaurant so that Grubhub can bill for a marketing fee.Edward Ongweso Jr“It’s not fair because this is our customer who called directly into our restaurant. It’s a trick.”Bettina MakalintalThe call was a customer who had his restaurant confused with another restaurant. It took four minutes to figure this out before the customer hung up without placing an order. “I got charged almost $8 for that phone call.”By signing up, you agree to the and & to receive electronic communications from Vice Media Group, which may include marketing...

August 6, 2019
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How Much Money Do People Spend on Uber?

How Much Money Do People Spend on Uber?

We crunched a data set with the spending habits of about 50,000 people to see who’s spending what on Uber.Frequent Uber users spend 1.3 percent of their income on the serviceBy signing up, you agree to the and & to receive electronic communications from Vice Media Group, which may include marketing promotions, advertisements and sponsored content.

February 3, 2020
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Governments Explore Using Blockchains to Improve Service (Published 2018)

Governments Explore Using Blockchains to Improve Service (Published 2018)

AdvertisementIf you buy a house in Chicago and want to register the deed, the Cook County Recorder of Deeds will accept two kinds of submissions: paper records and scanned images of paper records. No matter which option you choose, the clerks will manually type the information into the county database.Roughly once a week, someone — for example, an addict claiming a home that actually belongs to a grandparent with dementia — will mail in a fake document, and “if they formatted it correctly, we have to record it,” said John Mirkovic, the deputy recorder. “It’s one of the main reasons we’re so...

February 21, 2020
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How YouTube’s Volunteer Army Gets Channels Undeleted

How YouTube’s Volunteer Army Gets Channels Undeleted

Image: Shutterstock / Composition: Jason KoeblerWhen YouTube’s content moderation fails, super-users from the YouTube Contributors and Trusted Flagger programs are ready to intervene."One of those heroes saved my channel""It's worth it though because I feel like I’m making a difference""Listen, you gotta pay people, that way they’re impartial, they’re competent"By signing up, you agree to the and & to receive electronic communications from Vice Media Group, which may include marketing promotions, advertisements and sponsored content.

February 21, 2020
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