San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Bird, Lime and Spin for operating their shared electric scooter programs in San Francisco, the SF Examiner first reported. “We have just received it and we are reviewing it,” Bird spokesperson Rachel Katz told TechCrunch. “We’ll be in touch when we have more […]
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My day riding ‘Bird’ e-scooters shows how the tech industry has changed my hometown
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When I was a teenager growing up in West LA, a friend of mine from a different part of the city derisively called my neighborhood “Scooter-Ville” because it was so “wholesome.” He’d look out of my big bedroom window to see the neighborhood kids riding their Razor scooters up my empty block, around the cul-de-sacs, over and down the circular driveways.
Now, a different sort of scooter has come to town: “Bird” electric scooters.
Bird is a new transportation company that places un-docked electric scooters around a city. Users can unlock them with the touch of an app and use them to travel short distances at 15 mph. It’s one of a host of new dockless transportation companies — along with LimeBike, Jump, and others — bringing easy-to-use, non-car transit options to cities across the country. It’s also one of the more recent technology companies to call Santa Monica its home base and effectively its beta testing ground. Read more…
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View More My day riding ‘Bird’ e-scooters shows how the tech industry has changed my hometownSan Francisco will regulate electric scooter sharing
Electric push scooters have recently hit the streets of San Francisco. Over the last couple of weeks, LimeBike deployed some scooters in conjunction with local festivities in the city. And just yesterday, Bird launched its scooters in San Francisco. Spin has also deployed some scooters in the city. As it stands today, these scooters from […]
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Bird is flying into more cities, and as the electric scooter-share company spreads its wings, it wants to make sure it doesn’t destroy communities with its short-range vehicles.
Bird expanded from Southern California this week to San Francisco and Sa…
Bird expands to San Francisco, San Jose and Washington
The smash dockless scooter rental startup, Bird, is expanding beyond its Southern California nest with a new rollout in San Francisco, San Jose, Calif. and Washington, DC, the company said today. And as his company makes its migration across the country, Bird chief executive Travis VanderZanden is determined not to make the same mistakes that […]
View More Bird expands to San Francisco, San Jose and WashingtonBird adds a former Lyft VP of Government Relations as chief legal officer
Bird has made another key hire as it looks to spread its electric scooter rental business across the nation. The company has brought on former Lyft vice president of government relations, David Estrada, to be its chief legal officer. He’s going to take over the company’s compliance and government relations efforts just as Bird seems […]
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Travis VanderZanden. If you’ve been following the fast-changing transportation industry, it’s a name that may sound familiar. Until September 2016, VanderZanden was VP of growth at Uber and before that, COO of its fierce rival Lyft, which had acquired his on-demand car wash company, Cherry, in 2013. It was a dramatic few years for VanderZanden, once he joined the ride-hailing race.… Read More
RIP Nigel, the saddest bird in the world
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Move aside Romeo and Juliet. The award for most tragic love story now belongs to Nigel the bird and his concrete beloved.
Per The Guardian, the story begins in 2013 when Nigel, a gannet, showed up on Mana Island, an uninhabited piece of land off the coast of New Zealand. Initially, conservationists had placed fake concrete gannets on the island in order to attract some real birds.
Soon after he moved to the island, conservationists realized that Nigel was alone—and that he was insistent on romancing one of the concrete birds. Read more…
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Australia’s bird of the year is the enemy of children and cyclists
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It wasn’t just Moonlight that swooped in by surprise at an awards ceremony.
Earlier this year, New Zealanders voted for the kea as their favourite bird, a cheeky olive-green parrot. Aussies have opted for a bird that’s the enemy of cyclists, walkers and children everywhere.
The magpie has been selected as the bird of the year in a poll run by The Guardian, winning with 19,926 votes — 13.3 percent of the vote’s total.
You wouldn’t call the magpie a charming bird. It’s known for its aggression, especially around mating season in late August to late October, and is notorious for swooping at people that cross its path. Read more…
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