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• The history of how Uber went from the most feared startup in the world to its massive IPO

  18-05-2019 20:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  Uber went public this month on the New York Stock Exchange in a much-watched IPO.
  Since it was founded in 2009, Uber has transformed the ride-hailing industry and grown to become the most valuable companies in the world.
  See the highs and lows of Uber in its journey from small San Francisco startup, through its extremely tumultous 2017, through to its 2019 IPO.Visit BusinessInsider.com for more stories.
  Ten years ago, a company called UberCab made a splash in San Francisco by letting you hail a
  
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• Evercore is going after JPMorgan and Goldman; WeWork's CEO explains why he thinks his $47 billion company is recession-proof

  18-05-2019 14:21 via feedproxy.google.com
   
  Hey, readers!
  It was a big news week in the finance world. Both Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan announced their biggest-ever acquisitions since the financial crisis, trade talks continued, and even Bitcoin rebounded.
  WeWork said on Wednesday that it's growing incredibly fast, but is still losing money. The company's revenue more than doubled in the first quarter to $728 million as it expanded in international markets such as China, but still posted a net loss of $264 million.
  Investors are wa
  
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• Here's how bitcoin’s latest surge could be indirectly signaling that recession fears are hitting a fever pitch

  18-05-2019 12:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bitcoin recently surged above $8,000 to its highest level in almost a year. 
  It's no coincidence that this occurred as global investors worried about a recession, according to Michael Hartnett, the chief investment strategist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
  Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.What does bitcoin have to do with the next recession? 
  Michael Hartnett, the chief investment strategist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, sees at least one link that's worth keep
  
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• Google is using its famously sparse homepage to brag about how much it helps the economy, and it's a telling sign of the tech backlash (GOOG, GOOGL)

  18-05-2019 02:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  On Friday, Google began promoting reports outlining its economic benefits on its famously spare homepage.
  The reports show stats like how many billions of dollars the tech giant has helped generate and how many hundreds of thousands of businesses have leveraged its ad tools.  
  Google appears to have created these reports since at least 2009, but it's unclear whether it has ever placed them directly on its homepage until now. 
  The company's self-promotion comes as President Donald
  
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• Google's advertising boss says that it won't sacrifice privacy to boost its slowing ads business (GOOG, GOOGL)

  18-05-2019 00:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  Prabhakar Raghavan, who recently transitioned to his new role as Google's head of advertising and commerce products last October, finds himself in a tricky situation.
  At a time when consumer concerns over privacy are seemingly at an all-time high, Google's money-minting ads business is showing signs of sluggishness.
  This week at Google Marketing Live — the company's annual event for advertising partners — Raghavan and his team unveiled several new ad and commerce products that try to
  
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• The cost of Trump's bailout program for farmers is poised to more than double

  18-05-2019 00:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bailout spending on farmers is poised to more than double as the US-China trade war drags on.
  With a second bailout program on deck, the total price tag of tariff aid so far could jump past $30 billion. 
  But farmers have grown frustrated at the prospect of relying on subsidies. 
  President Donald Trump is trying to save farmers from the trade disputes he started last year. But even with bailout spending poised to more than double, many have grown frustrated at the prospect of relying on
  
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