The best thing I’ve seen about Uber recently comes from about a month ago. The Wall Street Journal wrote up a perfunctory story about the company’s $50 billion valuation, and it included a very truthful passage. So truthful, in fact, that presumably some PR flak got on the horn and made them change it for the online edition. @NeilAnAlien captured it on Twitter.
Online edition: “The company hopes to attract enough drivers and passengers that its business model becomes profitable.”
Print: “The company hopes to build enough loyalty that it can charge customers more and pay drivers less.”
At this point I should mention that attempted monopolization is a criminal action under the Sherman Antitrust Act.