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  1. Stocks8
  2. Gig Economy5
  3. Acquisition3
  4. Apple3
  5. Matter3
  6. Smarthome3

  1. Lyft's driverless forecast skipped the fleet work

    Lyft once expected most rides to be self-driving by 2021. Its 2022 retreat showed why a vehicle forecast needs an operating plan.

  2. Kim Kardashian fined by SEC

    The SEC's 2022 Kardashian settlement was about a hidden $250,000 promotion payment, not a verdict on every crypto token.

  3. Elon Musk agrees to buy Twitter

    Musk revived the $54.20 Twitter offer in October 2022. The useful question then was whether the deal would close.

  4. Grab aims to break even by H2 2024

    Grab's 2022 break-even target used adjusted EBITDA. The useful question was whether rides and delivery could carry themselves.

  5. Uber can finally focus on customer complaints

    Uber said driver supply improved in 2022. Shorter waits and fewer cancellations still depended on where and when drivers worked.

  6. Ikea's HomeKit hub

    Ikea's 2022 Dirigera hub promised affordable HomeKit, Matter, and Thread support; reliability was the test.

  7. iOS 16.1 adds Matter support

    The iOS 16.1 beta moved Apple toward Matter, but device certification and reliable pairing would decide whether it helped users.

  8. Matter is here, finally

    Matter 1.0 gave device makers a shared standard in 2022. I cared about whether my existing home devices would actually work together.

  9. Stadia is shutting down

    Stadia's shutdown came with refunds, but it exposed the cost of buying games that depended on one company's servers.

  10. Twilio and anti-racist layoffs

    Twilio invoked an anti-racist lens in its 2022 layoffs. The unanswered question was how the process worked, not an unsupported claim about race-based selection.

  11. Rockstar confirms GTA VI leak

    Rockstar confirmed a 2022 intrusion involving early GTA footage. A stolen development build was poor evidence for judging the final game.

  12. EVGA stops making video cards

    EVGA's exit from Nvidia cards exposed how little control a hardware partner can have when its supplier also competes with it.

  13. Tesla's Texas factory reached its 10,000th Model Y

    Tesla's 10,000th Texas Model Y proved the line was running. It did not show whether production had reached an economical pace.

  14. Adobe plans to acquire Figma

    Adobe's planned $20 billion Figma purchase looked defensive to a product-team user. The deal later fell apart.

  15. Lyft shuts down in-house rentals

    Lyft ended its in-house rental program in 2022. The customer experience had looked good; the fleet economics were harder.

  16. Amazon takes stake in Grubhub

    Amazon's 2022 Grubhub deal offered Prime distribution, but repeat orders after the free membership were the real test.

  17. California's proposed car rebate used the wrong measure of need

    California's March 2022 relief proposal offered a rebate per vehicle and help for transit. Owning a car was a poor measure of need.

  18. The SEC proposed climate disclosures. Comparable data was the test.

    The SEC proposed climate disclosures in 2022. The value would depend on comparable risk data, not a longer sustainability report.

  19. Bird continues to face challenges

    Bird's scooters were useful when they worked. Broken vehicles made fleet uptime and repair cost the business question.