Hubert Horan’s Quick Take on Uber’s Second Quarter Results
Uber’s latest financial report confirms Hubert Horan’s predictions.
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Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Sixteen: Is Morningstar’s Horrendously Bad Uber Analysis a Preview of Uber’s IPO Propsectus?
Why a Morningstar report on Uber’s IPO prospects does not begin to add up.
Read more...Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Fifteen: Uber’s Q1 Results – Reporters Show They Aren’t Up to Reading Financials
What was the real story in Uber’s first quarter results?
Read more...Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Fourteen: The New Yorker Lays Out the Template for Pro-Uber Propaganda
Dissecting the New Yorker’s fawning profile of new Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi.
Read more...Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Thirteen: Even After 4Q Cost Cuts, Uber Lost $4.5 Billion in 2017
How the business press got the story on Uber’s latest financial report wrong.
Read more...Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twelve: Brad Stone and Bloomberg Continue To Get the Uber Story Badly Wrong
How Brad Stone’s piece about “bad boy” Travis Kalanick is yet another effort to tell the most pro-Uber story possible at this point in time.
Read more...Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Eleven: Annual Uber Losses Now Approaching $5 Billion
Uber’s ever-widening losses confirms Hubert Horan’s thesis that Uber has no credible path to profit absent a radical downsizing.
Read more...MIT Professor Angrist Publishes Obviously Misleading Analysis of Uber Driver Economics….With Uber Chief Economist as Co-Author
More Uber boosterism masquerading as analysis.
Read more...Judge Slams Uber for Withholding, Possibly Destroying Evidence in Waymo Trial; May Undermine Uber in Other Litigation
Uber is in serious hot water in the Waymo trial. If Uber did try pulling a fast one on the court, the blowback could extend to other cases.
Read more...Uber and SoftBank Might Finally Have a Deal….But What Does It Mean?
It’s taken Uber four months to perhaps cinch a deal with SoftBank, while the spectacularly loss-making company is no closer to making money.
Read more...Uber Board Members Kiss and Make Up (for Now), but Long-Term Problems Remain
Uber may have bought itself more time with a conditional pact among its big shareholders, but it hasn’t solved its fundamental problems.
Read more...Hubert Horan: Naked Capitalism – Your Guide to Money and Power
Unlike the media and just about any other site, Naked Capitalism focuses relentlessly on how economic, political, and power dynamics intersect
Read more...Could a Foreign Corrupt Practices Investigation Become a Serious Problem for Uber?
An FCPA case against Uber would be extremely damaging, and there are good reasons why the DoJ would be game to pursue one.
Read more...What Does the Surprise Selection of Expedia’s Dara Khosrowshahi as CEO Mean for Uber?
Does the choice of Expedia’s Dara Khosrowshahi to be Uber’s CEO increase the odds of the local transportation company’s success?
Read more...More Duelling Court Filings in Uber’s Kalanick v. Benchmark Death Match
An update on the pitched battle at Uber between the Kalanick and Benchmark factions.
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