New Study: Median Uber Driver Earnings $9.73/Hour After Conservative Assumption for Costs
More on the dismal economics of being an Uber driver.
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Widely-Reported Study on Uber, Lyft Driver Economics Misses Fundamental Deterioration
Once again, some Uber and Lyft data that ought to generate more questions instead gets a free pass from the press.
Read more...Hubert Horan’s Quick Take on Uber’s Second Quarter Results
Uber’s latest financial report confirms Hubert Horan’s predictions.
Read more...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.
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