Did you make over five grand on a marketplace app? Maybe you're an Uber or Lyft driver and you make some money on the side. Or you sell baked goods or do hair on the weekends, and customers pay you on ...

Dear John: I’ve driven for Uber the last few years, and in the past, when it gave me my 1099 tax form, my “gross earned income” was the exact amount that was deposited into my checking account over ...

Most of us do not like receiving IRS Forms 1099 in the mail. They can be painful reminders that you have to pay taxes. And they can be wrong. If you have good records of what you were paid, you might ...

Good independent workers are hard to find and even harder to keep if the cost of doing business doesn’t make sense. So Uber is adding a new goody bag of rewards in hopes of retaining its workforce.

On Thursday, Uber filed a motion to oppose letting a major lawsuit that could undermine its business model proceed as a class action. The suit, which argues that Uber has misclassified its drivers as ...

Your support goes further this holiday season. When you buy an annual membership or give a one-time contribution, we’ll give a membership to someone who can’t afford access. It’s a simple way for you ...

A significant factor in the decline of the quality of jobs in the United States has been employers’ increasing reliance on “non-regular” employees — a growing army of freelancers, temps, contractors, ...

In May 2014, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick set off alarm bells when he suggested at a tech conference that self-driving cars, and not people, were the future of Uber’s ride services. “The reason Uber could ...

Ask most cynics what could pop the tech bubble and you’ll hear sermons on inflated valuations and unsustainably thin margins. But the biggest, most underestimated risk to the current crop of hot start ...