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...“We are increasingly confident in the market outlook for US ride-sharing as the competitive environment continues to show signs of improvement,” Logan Green, Lyft co-founder and chief executive, told analysts...
...With Lyft topping expectations across the board on core revenue drivers and margins, we do not see signs of competitive pressure,” he added....
...Initial signs were not good Such a truce did not seem likely when Mr Khosrowshahi — a protégé of Barry Diller, veteran dealmaker and former chief executive of online travel company Expedia — arrived at...
...“The combination of the strong demand for Lyft with Uber coming just a month later is a good sign,” said Bradley Tusk, an early Uber investor and former adviser to the company....
...In a sign of how companies may be tempering their expectations, Pinterest, the image-sharing platform, set a price range of $15-$17 for the 75m shares it plans to sell next week, setting up a potential “...
...Another warning sign for investors is that the “network effects” that were supposed to underpin its business — making the service more valuable the more people use it — have not turned out to be as strong...
...In a sign of how companies may be tempering their expectations to better reflect investors’ enthusiasm, Pinterest, the image-sharing platform, set a price range of $15-$17 each for the 75m shares it plans...
...Despite that, Uber shows no signs of backing off from the self-driving car effort, which management considers an essential part of its long-term plans....
...Demand had already exceeded the number of shares on offer by the second day of the roadshow, a positive sign for other fast-growing but lossmaking Silicon Valley companies aiming to go public this year,...
...In a sign of how fraught relations remain, Lyft drivers protested outside the San Francisco hotel where executives were scheduled to hold a lunch with investors, demanding higher pay....
...The company may now aim for a higher valuation than the near-$23bn upper range it suggested on Monday, in a positive sign for the raft of other tech groups aiming to go public this year....
...“Most successful people, celebrities, basketball players and just plain rich people sign a confidential stipulated judgment....
...By codifying complaints from staring or leering and indecent exposure to non-consensual sexual penetration, Uber says it can respond more consistently and understand the warning signs that might indicate...
...The Financial Times reported in October that one person close to Uber said the exact timing of its IPO would depend on the overall performance of the market in coming months, after signs the bull run in...
...The signs were not good on Friday, with Uber's day-one performance trailing other prominent IPOs: Shannon Bond in San Francisco and Nicole Bullock in New York have analysed whether the market, the bankers...
...“Facebook, Inc. at this scale cannot be governed in a coherent or safe fashion — one that no one could manage and that no amount of AI or clever engineering will ever successfully control,” the complaint...
....* One person close to Uber said the exact timing of the IPO would depend on the overall performance of the market in the coming months after signs that a bull run in tech stocks might be ending....
...Uber and Lyft require background checks for drivers when they sign up but have successfully lobbied against state laws that would mandate the collection of drivers’ fingerprints....
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...Uber is in early-stage talks to acquire the food-delivery app Deliveroo, according to people familiar with the matter, in the latest sign of its efforts to ramp up investment in the sector this year....
...Nike has a long record for showing signs of edginess in its branding, for instance the basketball player Charles Barkley’s “I am not a role model” campaign of 1993....
...Uber’s London license case, which lasted two days, was watched closely for signs that a regulatory backlash has eased as the app attempts to shake off its reputation for a bullying culture under its new...
...More recently, it has eyed a merger with Ola in India, a sign of further pressure from SoftBank....
...Uber is targeting the UK’s food delivery market with plans to link up with Deliveroo, the London-based food delivery app, in the latest sign of Big Tech investing in a British start-up....
...It sends packages through UPS, FedEx, DHL and courier services and, increasingly, it employs its own drivers and signs up people to deliver packages with their own cars through a programme called Flex....
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