Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, and Instacart are dangling new incentives as gas prices squeeze drivers. We break them down.

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DoorDash launched an "emergency relief program" to combat rising gas prices on Monday.

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Amazon wants to 'monetize' speed as it tests a radical new all-day, 10-window delivery service

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An Amazon delivery vehicle

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How much gig workers earn per hour across Uber, Grubhub, and similar apps

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Uber drivers ranked among the gig workers with the highest per-hour earnings in 2025, according to Gridwise.

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Microsoft just named Asha Sharma as its new Xbox CEO. Read the memos.

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Microsoft's Asha Sharma and Matt Booty.

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Instacart salaries revealed: Here's how much the delivery service pays data scientists, engineering managers, and others

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Instacart hired software engineers and data scientists on H-1B visas last year.

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Your guide to gig work, whether it's your side hustle or main source of income

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Delivering food or driving passengers for Uber isn't the only type of gig work anymore.

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Gig work has never been more widespread — and more challenging.

Instacart Charging Customers Different Prices for Same Products, Study Finds

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Instacart is betting on AI shopping carts that suggest what you should buy as you shop

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One of Instacart's Caper Carts, with a green label on the side, sits next to a display of produce and some cases of bottled water at a grocery store.
Instacart already offers its Caper smart shopping carts at multiple grocery store chains.

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Amazon's latest grocery expansion pushed supermarkets toward Instacart, its new CEO said

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A woman wearing a red winter coat loads bags of groceries into the back of a white SUV in a store parking lot as the sun sets in the background and a bare tree stands behind her.
Instacart CEO Chris Rogers said the company got calls from supermarket chains in the wake of Amazon's grocery delivery expansion.

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Costco is taking a page from Sam's Club's playbook to speed up checkout in the warehouse

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A tentative agreement between Costco and its union-member workers has been reached.
"We found that digital really enhances the speed of checkout," Costco CEO Ron Vachris said Thursday.

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