Bird buys Scoot - and a back door into San Francisco´s rental scooter market
(LA Times Horse Racing)

Santa Monica´s Bird Rides Inc. acquired the San Francisco electric scooter company Scoot for an undisclosed sum Wednesday. The deal marks the first major step toward consolidation in the burgeoning scooter rental sector. For Bird, it represents a chance to relaunch its service in the traffic-clogged...