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WSJ Tech News Briefing

TNB Tech Minute: Uber Turns a Profit

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

Tech News, News

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2024

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Plus: The CEO of Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, steps down. And Alibaba posts lackluster sales growth. Alex Ossola hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Here's your TnB Tech Minute for Wednesday, February 7th.

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I'm Alex Osala for the Wall Street Journal.

0:34.6

Uber posted its first full-year profit as a public company last year and projected continued

0:39.5

growth into the first quarter of 2024. The company had a profit of 1.43 billion dollars in the December

0:45.8

quarter, which included a $1 billion benefit from its equity investments as well as income from its

0:50.9

operations. That propelled it to a full year net income

0:54.4

following years of heavy losses.

0:56.5

The company has turned an annual profit once before

0:58.9

in 2018 on the back of its investments,

1:01.4

but it wasn't earning money from its operations until now.

1:05.1

The CEO of Doyin, the Chinese version of Tik-Tok, has stepped down to take on other responsibilities,

1:10.4

a company, Spokeswoman said.

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