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Why General Motors Is Investing $500 Million in Lyft General Motors is investing $500 million in Uber competitor Lyft, the automaker announced Monday It's about the future of driving General Motors is investing $500 million in Uber competitor Lyft, the automaker announced Monday
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Don't Wait on Uber: Buy This Hidden Stock Now to Profit From Self-Driving Taxis Disasters like the fatal Tesla crash in Florida aren't helping matters, either. Plus, Uber is still a private company, meaning investors can't get in now and wait for its self-driving taxi tech to arrive. However, there is a way for stock investors to start profiting from autonomous taxis -- and soon.
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- China's Alipay deepens push into Europe with Ingenico partnership. Ingenico Group has signed a deal with Alipay, China's biggest online-payments platform, that will allow Chinese consumers to use the mobile payment app widely across Europe, the French company said on Thursday.
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Uber plays hardball with early shareholders It’s a no-win situation.”. [This fear of being viewed as a startup enemy also is why none of the early Uber investors we spoke with would allow us to publish their names.]. To be sure, it’s extremely hard to feel bad for anyone holding Uber stock, particularly those who have been in since 2009 or 2010. Thousand of dollars into Uber at the outset are now worth millions of dollars.
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- Share this idea. Entrepreneur Elon Musk is a man with many plans. The founder of PayPal, Tesla Motors and SpaceX sits down with TED curator Chris Anderson to share details about his visionary projects, which include a mass-marketed electric car, a solar energy leasing company and a fully reusable rocket.
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How Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Went From A Startup Failure To One Of The Hottest Names In Silicon Valley He also started hanging out with former Google employee Chris Sacca, who is now a billionaire investor and Uber funder, and his friends, including Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh and Twitter cofounder Ev Williams. Then, at the 2008 LeWeb tech conference, he had a fateful conversation with StumbleUpon founder Garrett Camp.n the past few years, Uber has dealt with lawsuits, strikes, and other controversies from some of its drivers, who are private contractors rather than full-time employees. It has also seen the rise of competitors like Lyft. But Kalanick never backs down from a challenge, and Uber is only getting bigger.
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How Ashton Kutcher And Guy Oseary Built A $250 Million Portfolio With Startups Like Uber And Airbnb Eight and a Half X: TV star Ashton Kutcher and Madonna manager Guy Oseary teamed with billionaire Ron Burkle to turn $30 million into $250 million with investments like Uber and Airbnb. Liberty Media is betting $100 million the duo can do it again–on their own. (Photos: Tim Pannell for Forbes).
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Tibble v. Edison InternationalDecision Finds Ongoing Duty to Monitor Investments in 401 (k) Plans The plaintiffs in Tibble were participants in a 401(k) plan offered by Edison International who claimed the plan’s fiduciaries invested in a series of mutual funds that charged high fees, when identical—but cheaper—funds were readily available.
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- Stop, state tells Newport company hoping to challenge Uber and Lyft. 1  A California regulatory agency is trying to stop a fledgling Newport Beach company’s efforts to take on ride-hailing giants Uber and Lyft. Last week, Michael Pappas, co-founder of RydenGo, was told by a transportation enforcement officer with the...
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- Peter Thiel is putting his Facebook proceeds back to work. The billionaire investor, best known for his contrarian views and his early bet on the social network, has opened a new venture capital firm, Mithril Capital Management, with a $402 million fund.
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Ashton Kutcher races to Uberâs defense, then backs off Uber CEO Travis Kalanick condemned his comments as “terrible” but didn’t say whether Michael would lose his job. This isn’t the first time Kutcher, who invests in a number of tech startups, has come to Uber’s defense and that of his own wallet.
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GM and Lyft Are Building a Network of Self-Driving Cars General Motors and Lyft are teaming up to create a national network of self-driving cars, the companies jointly announced this morning. GM will invest $500 million in Lyft and take a seat on the ride-sharing startup's board of directors. It will also become a preferred provider of cars for short-term use to Lyft drivers. It's a natural partnership, the two say: Lyft knows all about getting people into cars they don't own, and GM's been working on autonomous technology for about a decade.
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Uber's Chinese Rival Is Reportedly Targeting a 2017 IPO May 16, 2016. 1  Uber and its Chinese rival, Didi Chuxing, are in a new race: to go public. 2  Didi Chuxing, currently the dominant ride-hailing company in China, is reportedly targeting an initial public offering in one of New York's exchanges in 2017, according to a report from Bloomberg, citing anonymous sources.
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Lyft and GM Launch Express Drive Program SAN FRANCISCO – Lyft and General Motors today announced the launch of their Express Drive short-term rental program exclusive to the Lyft platform. The program will make cars available to Lyft drivers at affordable rates with insurance and maintenance included.
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Alibaba's IPO Could Supercharge This Stock The IPO will likely make Alibaba's investors -- which, in addition to Yahoo, include SoftBank ( SFTBY ) with 37% and Chairman Jack Ma and the company's other founders with 10% -- quite wealthy. Unfortunately, it will be difficult for most investors to get a piece of this IPO before it actually starts trading.
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Uber's Latest Move Shows How Ruthless It Is With The Competition Taxi Magic, a taxi-hailing app, is taking on both Uber and Lyft with an updated app, a new name, and a new CEO. It's now called Curb, and it's branching out, allowing people to hire not just taxis, but limos and sedans as well. Uber and Lyft are our frenemies, new CEO Pat Lashinsky told The San Francisco Chronicle.
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Why General Motors Is Investing $500 Million in Lyft Why General Motors Is Investing $500 Million in Lyft John Zimmer, co-founder and president of Lyft Inc., speaks during the Connected Car Expo ahead of the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2015.
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Drive More. Earn More. Lyft matches drivers with passengers who request rides through our smartphone app, and passengers pay automatically through the app. Whether you’re trying to offset costs of your car, cover this month’s bills, or fund your dreams, Lyft will get you there. So, go ahead. Be your own boss.
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Uber Rival Lyft Is Giving Out Free Rides For The Next Two Weeks In 24 Cities Lyft A Lyft office pup buried in mini pink mustaches. Fist-bumping and pink-mustachioed ride-sharing startup Lyft is launching in 24 new cities today like Buffalo, Ann Arbor, and Oklahoma City. As part of the launch in those cities, Lyft is giving out unlimited free rides for two weeks.
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- Launching Startups The Kogi Way: Three Lessons From The Food Truck Pioneer. What happens in a Lyft will now happen in Las Vegas, Nevada. On Monday, the Nevada Transportation Authority gave both ride-sharing startups Lyft and Uber permits to operate in Sin City. Lyft just “turned on the switch” and is currently deploying drivers, according to Lyft spokesperson Sheila Bryson.
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Why General Motors invested in Lyft From General Motors’ perspective, part of that future involves self-driving cars. It will team up with Lyft to create an “autonomous on-demand network,” which will also aid Lyft as it goes up against competitor Uber, which is working on its own autonomous vehicles.
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FreedomPop The company was founded by CEO Stephen Stokols and Steven Sesar. It is backed by Intel, Mangrove Capital, DCM Capital, Atomico, Partech Ventures and Axiata. FreedomPop has raised over $109 million in financing, including a $50 million Series C in early 2016. FreedomPop uses Sprint's network in the United States.
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Uber will pay $500 to Lyft drivers who start working for its company Uber is also giving $500 to its drivers who refer another driver from a competing platform to Uber. The company previously enticed drivers of Lyft, Uber’s main competitor, back in December when it offered them free $50 gas gift cards and sign-up bonuses. Both Uber and Lyft have grown massively in the past few years.