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If You Invest in Lyft or Uber, You Might be Taken for a Ride MD MagazineView the full article

Uber-rich: the wealthy people who will get even wealthier from IPO The GuardianRide-hailing app valued at $80bn, below its initial target – but it will still make billions for some early investors. View the full article

Cramer: Markets could roar after we get past Friday's Uber, tariff gauntlet CNBCEven if the Uber IPO gets botched and the world's largest economies do not come to a trade truce on Friday, the market will remain in decent shape at the end of ... View the full article

Uber drivers strike over pay and conditions BBC NewsHundreds of Uber drivers in London, Birmingham, Nottingham and Glasgow have staged a protest against the firm. They will be joined by drivers in the US cities ... https://www.google.com/news

Money Diary: A 22-Year-Old Video Journalist In London On 33.6k Refinery29Welcome to Money Diaries, where we're tackling what might be the last taboo facing modern working women: money. We're asking a cross-section of women ... View the full article

Why You Should Wait to Buy Uber Yahoo FinanceThere aren't a lot of compelling reasons to buy Uber shares quite yet. https://www.google.com/news

The Uber drivers forced to sleep in parking lots to make a decent living The GuardianA growing group who commute from places as far as eight hours away spend the night in their cars to pick up fares around San Francisco during the day. View the full article

The Uber drivers forced to sleep in parking lots to make a decent living The GuardianA growing group who commute from places as far as eight hours away spend the night in their cars to pick up fares around San Francisco during the day. https://www.google.com/news

Uber chief keeps founder in back seat ahead of IPO Financial TimesIn his job interview with Uber's board in 2017, Dara Khosrowshahi gave a PowerPoint presentation that included the slide: “There can be only one CEO at a time ... View the full article

You can now charge your company for lunch, thanks to Uber Eats Yahoo FinanceUber Eats has already claimed your takeaway Fridays and now it wants to claim your lunch money too, with a new feature allowing workers to charge their ... View the full article

Uber drivers in UK cities strike over pay and conditions The GuardianHundreds of Uber drivers in Britain are to go on strike as part of an international protest against pay and conditions on the eve of the ride-hailing app's stock ... https://www.google.com/news

Cramer: Uber's fundamentals aren't great — I wouldn't buy Friday's open CNBC"When you look at the fundamentals, which no one is doing … there's just not much here worth getting excited about," Jim Cramer says. View the full article

Cramer: Uber's fundamentals aren't great — I wouldn't buy Friday's open CNBC"When you look at the fundamentals, which no one is doing … there's just not much here worth getting excited about," Jim Cramer says. https://www.google.com/news

Uber driver faces accusations he raped passenger WCVB BostonAn Uber driver was in court Tuesday, accused of raping a passenger on a secluded road in Wrentham last month. https://www.google.com/news

What Souq-Amazon and Uber-Careem deals mean for Middle East's online platforms Arab NewsDUBAI: A number of start-ups in the Middle East are being bought up by global giants, and while some might fear the loss of a home-grown identity, experts say ... https://www.google.com/news

Jim Cramer: It Isn't a Slowdown That I Fear, It's a Tweet TheStreet.comThis is the first time I can ever recall when a president is so attuned to the market that he will bend to its wishes....PEP. View the full article

Dow Drops 600 Points, Uber Announces IPO Will Price At Top, And Our Work Here Is Done DealbreakerNo one wants to hold equities today but everyone wants to hold Uber on Thursday, claims Uber. https://www.google.com/news

How Uber's largest shareholder is shaping the global ride-sharing market Yahoo FinanceMasayoshi Son is hoping to strike gold again this Friday, when Uber goes public in what is expected to be the largest IPO since Alibaba. https://www.google.com/news

How Uber's largest shareholder is shaping the global ride-sharing market Yahoo FinanceMasayoshi Son is hoping to strike gold again this Friday, when Uber goes public in what is expected to be the largest IPO since Alibaba. View the full article

Ride-sharing apps are unsustainable. Metro is the future. The DiamondbackWMATA provides a public *service*, while Uber tries — and fails — to turn a profit. View the full article

Philadelphia is suing Uber over allegation of unpaid taxes Philly.comUber has ignored repeated requests from the city to comply with an audit, the lawsuit claims. https://www.google.com/news

SF supervisors change tune on Big Tech: City is ‘not just a place to be mined’ San Francisco ChronicleA stern attitude toward the tech industry has emerged on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors — the most progressive in recent history — as some members ... View the full article

Jim Cramer: Uber's Timing Could Not Possibly Be Worse Than It Is TheStreet.comIt was supposed to be a bad week and it is playing out that way. You know how nervous I am about the Uber deal. This is not the traditional IPO of a *fresh*-faced ... https://www.google.com/news

Jim Cramer: Uber's Timing Could Not Possibly Be Worse Than It Is TheStreet.comIt was supposed to be a bad week and it is playing out that way. You know how nervous I am about the Uber deal. This is not the traditional IPO of a *fresh*-faced ... View the full article

Uber, Google, IBM, and others join Urban Computing Foundation to create tools for ‘cities of tomorrow’ VentureBeatThe Linux Foundation today announced the Urban Computing Foundation, a new industry-wide effort to create software to 'support the cities of tomorrow.' https://www.google.com/news