Katie Benner, Columnist

Benner on Tech: Will Lyft Bring Icahn and Andreessen Together?

Katie Benner's roundup of the most interesting things in tech, today.

May 18, 2015 at 1:32 PM UTC

Katie Benner is a Bloomberg View columnist who writes about technology, innovation, and the cult and culture of Silicon Valley. She lives in San Francisco. Benner previously wrote a tech and finance column for the Information. She has worked at Fortune, TheStreet.com and CNN Money, and was a freelance writer based in China covering culture, business and politics. She has a bachelor's degree in English from Bowdoin College.

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Carl Icahn put $100 million into the car-hailing service Lyft as it burns through cash trying to compete with Uber. Being a big, important investor should give Icahn all sorts of intel into a market he’ll want to be an active public market investor in sometime in the not-so-distant future, and the move is in keeping with his growing interest in the tech sector. (Remember Yahoo, Netflix, eBay and Apple?)