Reuters Uber is set to price its initial public offering at the midpoint of its target range or below, according to a Wednesday report from The Wall Street Journal that comes prior to the ride-hailing giant's expected Thursday pricing and Friday stock-market debut. If Uber's stock were to price at the midpoint of its pricing…
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By the time his master-of-the-universe memoir “Trump: The Art of the Deal” hit bookstores in 1987, Donald J. Trump was already in deep financial distress, losing tens of millions of dollars on troubled business deals, according to previously unrevealed figures from his federal income tax returns. Mr. Trump was propelled to the presidency, in part,…
Uber and Lyft drivers typically roam the streets to pick up passengers. Today they’re taking to the streets. Today thousands of Uber drivers in cities around the world including Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Chicago, Atlanta, Boston and even London are planning to strike just two days before the company’s expected $9…
Google is about to kick off its biggest event of the year — Google I/O, its developer conference, where app makers from all over gather to hear about the company's latest products and announcements. Each year, company executives take the stage to showcase upcoming Google products and technologies, while also providing insight about the search…
BEFORE THE evening of May 6th, and despite the miserable state of their country's democracy under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turks could console themselves with the thought that, on election day, they could anyway vote freely. That assurance was dashed when the country’s electoral board cancelled the result of the mayoral election in Istanbul conducted…
He was also a deep scholar of Star Wars, amassing a legion of Jedi action figures with his brother Ted, 14. He cooked on a cast iron skillet he got for Christmas, fixed up junk cars and was an avid target shooter, but not a hunter. His sister Juliet, 16, said that when she began…
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Late last month, the FBI raided the headquarters of $600 million Silicon Valley healthcare startup uBiome, reportedly as part of an investigation into questionable billing practices. Even before the FBI raid, customers had been experiencing billing problems at the startup for more than a year, according to a review of complaints by Business Insider. The…
JUST AS it looked like America and China were close to a deal, President Donald Trump has brought the two countries back to the brink of a full-fledged trade war. In a pair of tweets late on May 5th he threatened to slap 25% tariffs on all Chinese imports, a rate that applies to only…
