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Re:Uber’s Losses Widen as SoftBank Launches Bid to Buy Shares by semi-extrinsic on Thursday November 30, 2017 @03:41PM (#15819314)
> I think they are aware of the competition and are comfortable owning 60+% versus trying to get 80%+.

While in reality, their overall share of the ride-hailing + taxi market in the US is ~25% as of August 2017, and far less in Europe and Asia.

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Re:Uber’s Losses Widen as SoftBank Launches Bid to Buy Shares by bob_theslob646 on Thursday November 30, 2017 @07:07PM (#15820842)
>While in reality, their overall share of the ride-hailing + taxi market in the US is ~25% as of August 2017, and far less in Europe and Asia.

You don't know what you are talking about.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.recode.net/platform/amp/201...

>That week, Uber’s market share dropped 5 percentage points compared with the previous week, from 81 percent to 76 percent, according to Second Measure data. Lyft’s market share gained about the same amount that week. Other ride-sharing companies, including Gett and Juno, saw a nominal increase that week.

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Re:Uber’s Losses Widen as SoftBank Launches Bid to Buy Shares by rconti on Thursday November 30, 2017 @08:20PM (#15821219)
I'm assuming the difference is the +taxi component in the calculations.
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