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Aug. 9, 2019

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

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  • Show Notes

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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