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The latest victim of Uber’s bold disruption may be itself

Protesters rallied against the ride-hailing company in New York City on Feb. 2

TO SAY THAT UBER, THE BRASH RIDE-HAILING UPSTART, has had a tumultuous 2017 would be an understatement. The still-young year has been wreckage.

The company’s latest misstep: a dodgy program, dubbed Greyball, with which Uber actively prevented officials in cities that resisted its operation from hailing rides—one in a string of recent controversies that has called into question Uber’s aggressive business practices. Since

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