By Shira Ovide, Bloomberg

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Money lubricates tech’s disruption powers

There is still plenty of investor cash around to bet on the next big risk

Uber

Learning the limits of a sharing economy

Uber’s revelation of assaults dims trust in internet-led faceless businesses

An Uber pick-up location.

Google makes a legacy switch

Question is will the Pichai era be as momentous as the Page-Brin one

New Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai

Some things to be grateful about technology

Beyond big bang disruptions, it has actually worked for the greater good

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Tech start-ups come with prior advantage

In contrast, cities planning to rein them have to start from scratch to mount a defence

The Airbnb website. In 2016 Airbnb was officially sanctioned by the Dubai Tourism authority with Ras Al Khaimah following suit in January and signing an agreement with the US start-up.

Cash burn is no longer trending in start-ups

Influential investors are forcing them to give the bottom-line a closer look

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Apple learns to live without iPhone spike

Its numbers from newer products and services yet to compensate for iPhone dip

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Amazon tiptoes into the privacy debate

But don’t expect tech behemoth to completely free itself of its data greed

File photo: People stand in the lobby for Amazon offices in New York.

CEOs shouldn’t overstay their welcome

WeWork’s founder may have stepped down, but his writ will run large at critical times

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The not so cool companies delivering hot streaks

For every WeWork IPO crash, there is someone like Datadog delivering stellar returns

The New York Stock Exchange.

Valuing marketplace-based IPOs is going to be tough

That’s because future growth at Uber and Lyft cannot be easily benchmarked

Valuing upcoming marketplace-based IPOs is going to be tough

Trying to make sense of all the Apple takeover talks

But some sort of corporate and retail strategy rethinking won’t be amiss

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