Fri. 08/09 - Can Ride Hailing EVER Make Money?

Uber and Lyft continue to lose money hand over fist, Huawei has a backup OS plan, Piano has a smarter paywall for news outlets, people are texting their “number neighbors” and of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.

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Links:

• Uber Posts $5.2 Billion Loss and Slowest Ever Growth Rate (NYTimes)
• Huawei reveals HarmonyOS, its alternative to Android (Engadget)
• Facebook Offers News Outlets Millions of Dollars a Year to License Content (WSJ)
• How Piano built a propensity paywall for publishers — and what it’s learned so far (NiemanLab)
• Here's why the internet is obsessed with 'number neighbors,' a viral trend where people text phone numbers one digit away from their own (Business Insider)

The Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

• The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (The New Yorker)
• I Tried Hiding From Silicon Valley in a Pile of Privacy Gadgets (Bloomberg Businessweek)
• How Globalization Broke Gateway, the Cow Computer Company (Motherboard)
• Python is eating the world: How one developer's side project became the hottest programming language on the planet (ZDNet)
• With warshipping, hackers ship their exploits directly to their target's mail room (TechCrunch)
• Scientists Are Stuck on the Mystery of Tape (Engadget)

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