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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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)