Gett in advanced talks to buy Juno for $250M as Uber rivals consolidate

Gett in advanced talks to buy Juno for $250M as Uber rivals consolidate
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Article: "Gett in advanced talks to buy Juno for $250M as Uber rivals consolidate"

HN: "Ubser rivals consolidating: Gett to buy Juno for $250M"

I wonder if the HN headline is as-submitted or mod-ified.

The latter title leans much more on the Uber link, while TC's headline puts it at the end.

If we didn't have all of Uber scandal stuff going on, I wonder which title would've been submitted to HN:

"Uber rivals scrambling as Gett buys Juno for $250M", maybe?

Here's a fun query to run: Pull HN submissions and go back to the linked articles. Pull those headlines, and then remove ones too long for HN's length limit.

Of the remaining headlines, normalize and see how many HN posts modified the title in some way.

This acquisition is nothing but acquiring users (although Junos has fewer drivers so fewer active users) and talents, as Gett itself can already do what Juno and other rider-service apps can do. I wonder if they will continue to run Juno as a standalone app like Seamless and Grubhub but share the same user database. I still wonder why Seamless and Grubhub can't shut down one of them, this seems like a marketing tactic than anything else, creating a diversion that there are other players in the market. Who knows, maybe there's tax advantage.