Uber Announces Acquisition Offer for Delivery Hero at $14.8B

(investor.uber.com)

21 points | by pookieinc 2 days ago ago

2 comments

  • CodesInChaos a day ago

    The lack of anti-trust enforcement on mergers is really harmful.

    Lieferheld taking over pizza.de already lead to rising prices. Merging it with Uber Eats would make the situation even worse.

    • joshribakoff a day ago

      Isn’t there a gray area between unregulated markets and regulated markets?

      A corrupt regulator could prohibit this for ride share industry only, to target under a pretext.

      Manipulating market incentives could also reduce competition assuming an end goal is acquisition.

      Of course with no regulation, corrupt players can consolidate power.

      I would say unchecked power is more dangerous, so the question to me is if we presume regulation is good then how do we structure it so the regulators are regulated?