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Ahead of IPO, Uber’s Losing Less—but Growing Less Too WIREDUber revealed its plans to go public just weeks after Lyft. The filing shows that Uber dwarfs its rival, but the company continues to post operating losses. View the full article

A Charity Accepts Uber Stock as Donations. Then Uses It to Pay Staff Bonuses. Is That O.K.? The New York TimesLast year, the founder of a charity that is focused on making sure everyone on earth has clean water and a co-founder of an e-commerce mattress company met ... View the full article

#DeleteUber Cost Uber Hundreds of Thousands of Users New York MagazineThe anti-Uber protest revealed a lot of negative sentiment towards the company, a liability as it plans to go public. View the full article

PagerDuty IPO is More Exciting Than Uber's Debut FortuneSoftware developer PagerDuty went public before giant ride hailing *service* Uber. View the full article

‘Working harder and getting less’: Good old days of ride-sharing are gone, Philly drivers say Philly.comAs Uber and Lyft strive for profitability, some ride-share drivers say they're seeing pay cuts, dwindling incentives, and the looming threat of getting kicked off the ... View the full article

Uber driver drops passenger off at airport ‘then goes back to rob their house’ The SunJackie Gordon Wilson, 38, from California, was arrested after several neighbours caught him acting suspiciously on their home security systems they share to ... https://www.google.com/news

Two Uber Board Seats for SoftBank Imperiled by U.S. National Security Review BloombergWhen SoftBank Group Corp. arranged a $9 billion purchase of Uber Technologies Inc. stock in late 2017, the company negotiated for two seats on the board. View the full article

An Uber driver dropped a passenger at an airport before attempting to rob their home, police say. He was caught by a Ring alarm. Business InsiderThe Uber-driver suspect is accused of burglarizing another home in the area, which also had a Ring security system. View the full article

Customers benefit as Ola and Uber slug it out in India Financial TimesIn China, the local ride sharing company Didi-Chuxing has decisively vanquished its foreign rival Uber. In its South East Asian headquarters of Singapore, Grab ... View the full article

Customers benefit as Ola and Uber slug it out in India Financial TimesIn China, the local ride sharing company Didi-Chuxing has decisively vanquished its foreign rival Uber. In its South East Asian headquarters of Singapore, Grab ... https://www.google.com/news

L.A. women sue Uber, saying it failed to warn them of sexual assaults by fake Uber drivers Los Angeles TimesThree Los Angeles County women who say they were sexually assaulted by predators who posed as Uber drivers to lure passengers filed a lawsuit against ... View the full article

HILL: Modern Monetary Theory of the Progressive Uber-Left North State JournalThe Progressive Uber-Left is currently pushing MMT or Modern Monetary Theory which basically says budget deficits don't matter and are actually beneficial to ... View the full article

LA lawsuit says Uber isn’t doing enough to protect riders from assault Vox.comA lawsuit filed by three women who say they were raped by men posing as Uber drivers alleges that Uber is neglecting the safety of young, intoxicated female ... https://www.google.com/news

Retail Investors: Here's How to Win on the Uber and Pinterest IPOs TheStreet.comThere's a two-step process for retail investors to have a shot at making money on hot IPOs after the big institutions have taken a crack at the first batch of shares. View the full article

To Uber, I'm a driver but not a worker. But their billion-dollar IPO is built off my labor. NBC NewsAn Uber driver and organizer explains how the value in Uber comes from the workers it refuses to acknowledge as employees. View the full article

To Uber, I'm a driver but not a worker. But their billion-dollar IPO is built off my labor. NBC NewsAn Uber driver and organizer explains how the value in Uber comes from the workers it refuses to acknowledge as employees. https://www.google.com/news

This Uber driver took passengers to the airport and then allegedly went back to their house and tried to break in CNNPolice in San Mateo, California, have arrested an Uber driver who they say took his riders to the airport and then drove back to their home and tried to break in. https://www.google.com/news

Police: Uber driver tried to break into riders' house CNNAn Uber driver in California was arrested after police say the driver attempted to break into his riders' home after he dropped them off at the airport. https://www.google.com/news

Uber, Lyft and the challenge of transportation startup profits TechCrunchHow much does transportation cost you? In most cities, bus or subway fare might set you back $3 or so. A tank of gas, maybe $30 or $40 depending on your car. https://www.google.com/news

After Uber’s protest, Lyft moves closer to exclusive Divvy deal Curbed ChicagoEven with Uber's campaign of misinformation, the City Council committee approved Lyft's exclusive deal to expand the Divvy bike-share *service* on Monday. View the full article

Uber Vouchers lets businesses buy rides for their customers in bulk The VergeUber unveiled a new product Tuesday called "Uber Vouchers" that's designed to help businesses sponsor free or discounted ride-hail trips for their customers. View the full article

Uber Vouchers lets businesses buy rides for their customers in bulk The VergeUber unveiled a new product Tuesday called "Uber Vouchers" that's designed to help businesses sponsor free or discounted ride-hail trips for their customers. https://www.google.com/news

Uber and Lyft drivers are scraping by. This bill would help them. Hartford CourantSenate Bill 989 would very modestly limit the amount of money that Uber and Lyft are able to take from the drivers for each ride and would provide some basic ... View the full article

Why Uber, Airbnb, and other startups are going public in 2019 QuartzYou could be forgiven for thinking startups had stopped going public. Travis Kalanick, Uber's notorious co-founder and former chief executive, famously said he ... View the full article

Uber didn't do enough to warn women about series of rapes by fake Uber drivers in LA, lawsuit alleges CNNNew York (CNN Business) Nine people were sexually assaulted by "fake Uber drivers" between September 2016 and February 2018 in Los Angeles, a new ... https://www.google.com/news