Category : science

science / science - 5 years ago

Lyft Touts Growth for IPO as Losses Near $1 Billion

Lyft’s revenue is exploding, but so is its net loss. Like many IPO candidates the San Francisco-based company has never turned a profit. Under the potential risk factors listed in its filing with the Securities and Exchanges Commission, Lyft warns...

science / science - 5 years ago

Lyft Touts Revenue, Values in Pitch to Investors

Lyft is seeking to raise as much as $2.1 billion in an initial public offering valuing the ride-hailing company at about $20 billion. Lyft’s executives, in the video seen by Bloomberg, tout their San Francisco-based company as a founder-driven start...

science / science - 5 years ago

World's 2nd-largest Ebola outbreak exceeds 1,000 cases

The second-largest, second-deadliest Ebola outbreak in history has exceeded 1,000 cases in less than nine months. A total of 1,009 people have reported symptoms of hemorrhagic fever in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's northeastern provinces of...

science / science - 5 years ago

Uber to Seal $3.1 Billion Deal to Buy Careem This Week

The U.S. ride-hailing giant will pay $1.4 billion in cash and $1.7 billion in convertible notes for Careem, the people said, asking not to identified because the talks are private. The notes will be convertible into Uber shares at a price equal to $...