Uber, the smartphone-based ridesharing service long known for operating in the face of unknown legal consequences while daring regulators to bring legal action,1 may be adopting a new approach. Instead of facing regulators with defiance, the company has started to push for new laws that would bring its services into a clearer status of legality.2 …
Author: Chris Hruska
The Benefits and Complications of Big Data
The type of significant decisions that drive businesses, big and small, in their attempts to better react to customers’ needs have increasingly been driven by big data. Big data refers to “the recent wave of electronic information produced in greater volume by a growing number of sources (i.e., not just data collected by a particular…
Fantasy Sports: Investment Gold Mine or Legal Minefield
It is estimated that over forty-one million people have played fantasy sports in the United States or Canada this year.1 In addition to nearly nine hours per week,2 these players are spending vast sums of money on this increasingly popular pastime. It is estimated that as much as eleven billion dollars will flow through the…