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Re:Understanding Uber: It's Not About the App by dingo_bat on Monday September 25, 2017 @10:23AM (#15330725)
None, actually. They are referring to what is normally called "VC funding". But here the GP wants you to believe that Uber is somehow receiving billions in public money and gaining business advantage from that. So they used "subsidies".
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Re:Understanding Uber: It's Not About the App by Nursie on Monday September 25, 2017 @10:33AM (#15330798)
>> But here the GP wants you to believe that Uber is somehow receiving billions in public money

Absolutely not, subsidy does not only refer to public money, I'm not sure why you think it would. I'm not under any illusion that public money is being poured into Uber, nor would I wish to give that impression.

How ridiculous.

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