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Uber Files For $1.8 Billion Round And Could Be Worth $40 Billion Uber Technologies, one of the world's most valuable private technology companies, may be raising $1.8 billion in new funding. Read More > SHARE: Video: Uber On Moving Into Resistant Markets Uber CEO Travis Kalanick talks about ridesharing, disrupting traditional power players, and what he thinks it takes to break into new markets.Read More > SHARE: Four In Five Millennials Optimistic For Future, But Half Live Paycheck To Paycheck While millennials expect to do as well as or better than their parents did financially, many are behind on savings and still rely on family help.Read More > SHARE: Inside The $3 Billion Business Of Formula One Formula One has no shortage of controversy. But despite its problems, some believe that should Formula One go public, it would be valued roughly 17 times this year’s projected operating income of $456 million. Read More > SHARE: WATCH VIDEO  The Business Of Formula One The Formula One racing team valuations compiled by FORBES last month showed the average Formula One team is now worth $494 million, up from $337 million two years ago. SHARE: China Used More Concrete In Three Years Than The U.S. Used In The Entire 20th Century China produces and consumes about 60 percent of the world’s cement – the Three Gorges Dam alone required 16 million tonnes of it.Read More > SHARE: Box Office Bombs That Weren't: 'Interstellar,' 'Hunger Games' Edition There may have been smoke, but there was no fire whatsoever for either blockbuster release. Both films are turning out to be pretty big hits after all. Read More > SHARE: