NEWSWORTHY
Let me paint you a picture. More than a year after first touting a Photoshop app for the iPad, Adobe finally released its Photoshop app for the iPad. Illustrator is also coming soon, Adobe said. In slightly less exciting app news, Microsoft unveiled a new icon for its Edge browser program that sort of looks like a rounded ocean wave. 'Cause, you know, surfing the web...Everybody's gone surfin', Surfin' USA–sorry.
Pressure valve. The pols in Los Angeles aren't happy with Uber, which has refused to provide the city with real-time data about its scooter rental customers. L.A. officials said they'd suspend Uber's license to operate if it doesn't comply by Friday. A little farther west, Hawaii's Department of Taxation will get host records from Airbnb, settling a court dispute over the state's records request.
Sign of the times. More than one thousand Google employees signed a petition asking the company to create a climate plan and eliminate its carbon emissions by 2030.
Intimate details. Sort of due to California's new privacy law, set to take effect next year, some of the more obscure consumer data collectors are giving people access to their files. New York Times reporter Kashmir Hill got some of his data and it was bizarrely detailed. "Sift knew, for example, that I'd used my iPhone to order chicken tikka masala, vegetable samosas and garlic naan on a Saturday night in April three years ago," he writes.
Rocky road. On Wall Street, Uber skidded out. The company said its third quarter sales rose 30% to $3.8 billion, including a 64% jump at Uber Eats. Bookings rose only 29%, a slowing rate that disappointed investors. Uber shares, previously down 26% from its IPO in June, dropped another 5% in premarket trading on Tuesday.
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
If I say the phrase "future of transportation," your mind probably goes first to some high-tech concept like self-driving cars or space planes or, even, underground tunnels (thank you, Elon). But Slate writer Henry Grabar wants to refocus your attention on some very different, much more available solutions to our traffic and pollution woes: the bus, the bicycle, and the elevator. For example:
The elevator is perhaps the foremost example of a relatively ancient transportation technology that could allow people to live and work in closer proximity, reducing the length of commutes and fostering commercial and social vitality. Unfortunately, in most American communities the elevator has been functionally outlawed because zoning requirements will permit no building taller than a small tree. The bus is another overlooked piece of technology that could do far more. In most American cities, buses are hard to depend on because they run infrequently, slowly, and often on routes that are holdovers from streetcar systems abandoned decades ago. Give a bus its own lane, its own route, its own authority over signals, and it can permit car-free land use to flourish alongside.
ON THE MOVE
At Chronicle, the cybersecurity outfit under Google parent Alphabet, co-founder and chief security officer Mike Wiacek announced this week that he's planning to leave. No word yet on his next gig...At Apple, several changes to report. Long-time head of investor relations Nancy Paxton announced on last week's earnings call (her 93rd) that she was retiring...Apple hired noted Columbia University cardiologist David Tsay to work on its health efforts...And with Apple agreeing to use wireless modems from Qualcomm, top wireless engineer Ruben Caballero jumped to startup Keyssa...Telehealth startup Hims & Hers added Dr. Toby Cosgrove, former CEO of the Cleveland Clinic, to its board of directors.
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BEFORE YOU GO
We have a winner for cutest dog illustration of the week. Japan is overhauling the designs on its currency, adding some predictable images to its bank notes, such as Mount Fuji. But Japanese artist (and manga author) Ponkichi took up the challenge and created some Yen of his own design featuring the country's beloved dog breed, Shiba Inu. And they're right on the money.
Aaron Pressman
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Email: aaron.pressman@fortune.com
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