Uber & Lyft: Who Will Win The Race to IPO?

The Morning Run Crew

10-Dec-18 07:45

Uber & Lyft: Who Will Win The Race to IPO?

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The Morning Run Crew gives you their take on today's business headlines.

1:03 - Last Thursday, Lyft announced that they will be filing for an IPO, with sources saying it's slated for early 2019. Over the weekend, news came that Uber was confidentially filing for an IPO. The Morning Run crew will be looking at these two US ride-hailing companies and their continuous battle and race to IPO.

6:53 - Astro is the latest media company to reduce their workforce via VSS. We look into the troubles they're facing and doing a recap of the similar news that have hit this growing list of media companies

Presented by: Joyce Goh, Julian Ng

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Categories: Business Analysis, Auto

Tags: Uber, Lyft, IPO, iHeal, Astro, The Star, Media Prima, VSS,

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