Elderly man struck, killed by electric scooter in Venice; driver arrested for DUI | abc7.com

Wow. I didn’t know you could get a DUI on a scooter. The crash occurred at 9:45 p.m. Saturday on Lincoln Boulevard at East Marco Court, according to a desk officer at the Los Angeles Police Department’s West Traffic Division. — Read on abc7.com/amp/venice-scooter-death-man-killed-lincoln-boulevard-dui/10723480/

Bird sues Beverly Hills over its ban of motorized scooters

Bird sued the city of Beverly Hills on Thursday, seeking to overturn a six-month ban on rental scooters that the local city council approved in July. — Read on http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-bird-beverly-hills-20181101-story.html

Snap is ‘quickly running out of money’

I know how Snap can save $500 million per year: his name is Evan Spiegel. The CEO famously rejected stock options comp for a ridiculous annual salary of one half a billion USD. Snap Inc. stock slid more than 5% on Tuesday morning after an analyst said the Santa Monica company behind the Snapchat video-messagingContinue reading “Snap is ‘quickly running out of money’”

Bird scooters are ruining Venice

Not just because they are a safety menace, but because they let tech bros zip past the actually troubling parts of urban life, like encampments of homeless people. — Read on http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-jackson-bird-scooter-20180515-story.html