Re:Uber Tells Investors It Wouldn’t Pay Above $2B for Lyft
by nbadg on Saturday August 20, 2016 @01:55PM
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For what it's worth, the article's title caption reads
> However, Uber’s CEO is said to oppose an acquisition at any price due to antitrust concerns.
So pretty clearly, Kalanick agrees.
Re:Uber Tells Investors It Wouldn’t Pay Above $2B for Lyft
by jsprogrammer on Saturday August 20, 2016 @02:01PM
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So, Uber would not pay any price, but a maximum of $2 billion?
Re:Uber Tells Investors It Wouldn’t Pay Above $2B for Lyft
by morenoh149 on Saturday August 20, 2016 @02:37PM
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Uber pays $0. Others should pay $2 billion says uber.
Re:Uber Tells Investors It Wouldn’t Pay Above $2B for Lyft
by bazqux2 on Saturday August 20, 2016 @02:49PM
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Microsoft bailed out Apple and see how that turned out.
Re:Uber Tells Investors It Wouldn’t Pay Above $2B for Lyft
by samfisher83 on Saturday August 20, 2016 @03:45PM
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Microsoft still owns the majority (90%+) of the desktop market and the office market. They always had kind of crappy mobile os and that hasn't changed.
Re:Uber Tells Investors It Wouldn’t Pay Above $2B for Lyft
by tuxracer on Saturday August 20, 2016 @03:52PM
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Sure but the smartphone space at the time was an insignificant percentage of the market. That's by far no longer the case now. Having a crappy mobile OS in 2000 is a magnitudes smaller problem than having a crappy mobile OS in 2016.
Re:Uber Tells Investors It Wouldn’t Pay Above $2B for Lyft
by user5994461 on Saturday August 20, 2016 @04:47PM
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Is there any reason to believe that Apple would have follow led the way to mobile/phone/tablet if it were acquired by Microsoft a long time ago?
Re:Uber Tells Investors It Wouldn’t Pay Above $2B for Lyft
by 1_listerine_pls on Saturday August 20, 2016 @01:46PM
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Like Google and Yahoo. Hey Marissa! wanna be CEO?
I suppose Uber can point to taxi companies as competition, but at the rate those are dying off, and considering that Uber's app puts Uber in something of a new category, I would want to hedge my bets and keep Lyft around in case a regulator doesn't take the taxi argument seriously.