By Paula Seligson and Farhin Lilywala Uber knows a lot about its users—where they travel, what they eat, how much riders spend, and how much drivers earn. But when it comes to its own finances, the company is keeping a tight leash on information, even as it asks investors for billions of dollars of new funding. The…
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by Farhin Lilywala, Paula Seligson and Anastasia Donde Uber is working with Morgan Stanley on outreach related to raising around USD 1.5bn via an unsecured bond deal, said two buysiders and two trading sources. The company has outlined a dual-tranche structure that includes an eight-year non-call three piece whispered at 8% and a five-year non-call two…
Read more Uber preps USD 1.5bn debut bond offering, sets call for tomorrow
By: Farhin Lilywala, Staff Writer The American Heart Association awarded the NYU Langone Medical Center a four-year, $4 million grant to research the many aspects and causes of heart attacks in women. The grant will supplement the newly created Sarah Ross Soter Center for Women’s Cardiovascular Research, one of only five in the country. Vice…
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By: Farhin Lilywala, Staff Writer Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor answered questions about the current state of juries in the American judicial system at the NYU School of Law on Monday, hosted by the Civil Liberty Project. According to their website, the Civil Liberty Project began last fall to assess the current role and place…
By: Farhin Lilywala, Staff Writer Anonymous voices are coming together to raise awareness about sexual assault, as college students from across the nation have united through a campaign called 100 Voices Strong, which kicked off on Friday. 100 Voices Strong uses a mobile app called Flyy, which allows people to anonymously speak to each other…
“That has yet to be determined,” says GPC interim president Rob Watts. By: Farhin Lilywala Effective early 2016, GPC Jaguars and Georgia State University (GSU) Panthers will merge into one university. The Board of Regents, a unified governing body for public higher education, made the official announcement at their last meeting on Jan. 6…
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By: Farhin Lilywala Homeless people should stop being lazy and get themselves jobs. Homeless people don’t have anything to eat. Homeless people don’t do much. That’s according to some of the people in the Hollywood, Fla. community. Over Labor Day weekend, I attended a program called Will Write for Food in which 20 other journalists…
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