Ubering? Don’t sweat the small talk
Not everyone is keen to engage in small talk with Uber drivers, especially someone you are barely acquainted with, but you may need to break the ice.
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Elon Musk’s Hyperloop dream gets another $50m backing, hires Uber’s CFO
Hyperloop Technologies, a Los Angeles-based company building a futuristic transportation system, said it raised $50 million in convertible-debt financing and hired Uber Technologies former chief financial officer.
Disruptive Uber puts meals on wheels. Next target delivery industry.
Food delivery app UberEATS launched on Wednesday and the company behind the ride-sharing app is confident the service will disrupt the food industry.
This is the future: Elon Musk shares his new “secret Master Plan” for Tesla
Elon Musk’s Master Plan Part Deux, posted on Teslas’s website last night and republished, gives some forthright answers to his critics.
Uber reverses SA fee-cutting marketing ploy – 4 000 drivers say not working
Uber will reverse fare cuts announced in South Africa two months ago, saying demand didn’t grow enough to ensure that drivers made the same amount of money as at the previous price levels.
Uber gets $3.5bn cash injection from Saudi Sovereign Wealth fund
Uber Technologies said it received its biggest investment to date, raising $3.5 billion from the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia.
Financial disrupter in chief? Watch out bankers, here comes Paypal, Vodacom
Paypal has created a mobile wallet alliance with Vodacom’s parent Vodafone. When you can access your money on a cell phone, who needs a bank account?
Bloomberg View: Who’ll win Driverless Cars race – Tesla, Google, Apple?
Getting to “level-four” automation – where the car drives itself, all the time, with no human input – is still a formidable challenge. But who will win driverless car race?
Mike Wade: Good news – 2016 dot-com bubble to burst
The stock market saw a loss of $5 trillion from 2000-2002 following the meteoric rise of tech company valuations. In the piece below, Cisco’s Mike Wade makes the case for a repeat.
David Frankel: What every startup founder needs to know about accounting
Co-founder of Internet Solutions, Frankel is a successful early stage investor in the US – here’s his thoughts on a subject many entrepreneurs wrestle with.