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Uber disrupt the English language in its first-ever diversity report, which included the term “Jewber.” The company said Shalom, its Jewish employee group, made up the name for themselves, but that didn’t stop people from criticizing it. The general reaction could be summed up with this one-word tweet: “No.”
For the curious: Uber employees in general call themselves “Uberettos.” It was hard to come up with something that sounds worse than “Uberer,” but they did it. Innovation!
Two online marketplaces for pet-sitting services, Rover of Seattle and DogVacay of Santa Monica, merge. Terms weren’t announced, but the companies said that together they booked $150 million in services in 2016, taking a 20 percent cut. Rover’s Seattle office will be the headquarters and the DogVacay team will see 22 layoffs. Insert joke about dog-eat-dog competition here.
Puma capitalize on United’s woes. After the airline got grief for enforcing what some saw as an outdated dress code on two teenagers flying free on an employee pass, the athleisure vendor, er, pounced. “We fly in our leggings,” Puma tweeted. “Bring your United ticket to any US Puma store for 20 percent off leggings. Now until April 9. Stay Fly.”
And in an apparent comment on the virtues of zeroemissions electric vehicles, Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweet a sketch of a unicorn with a puff of air emerging from its backside. Besides that, he was also demonstrating a hidden feature that lets you doodle on a Tesla’s touchscreen. Is this what the Autopilot function is for?