New-york / San Francisco, -Uber Technologies Inc filed a paper on the primary public offer, according to the texts of 3 people with knowledge of the case, taking a step closer to the main milestone for one of the most closely observed and ambiguous firms in The silicon plain.

The firm ride-hailing filed secret papers on Thursday, said once from sources, in step with its own least competitive in the USA Lyft Inc, which still announced on Thursday, in fact that applied for an IPO.

Simultaneous submission extend the protracted battle between Uber and Lyft, which, as cruel rivals, often rolled out similar proposals and meet the rates buddy friend. Uber is eager to win Lyft on wall Street, according to sources, its people with this issue, a symptom of the firm's entrenched competitiveness.

Its filing to time of the tremendous technologies the lists never. Uber's estimate in its latest personal funding was $ 76 billion ,and it has the potential to cost $120 billion in IPO. His listing in the proper year will be the largest that would be expected Veronicas public debuts of the highly acclaimed Silicon plains, covering the firm of apartments for rent Airbnb Inc. and the company messaging in the workspace Slack. However, the current market volatility has the ability to change the intentions of firms.

The IPO will be a test of public market traders ' tolerance for Uber's legal and labor disputes, which have dragged The firm into the direction of much of the past year, and the progress of CEO Dara Khosrowshahi in turning the firm around.

Khosrowshahi took over a bit more than a year back and repeatedly said in public that he would understand Uber public in 2019. In August, he hired the first monetary Director of the company for more than 3 years.

Together, Uber and Lyft will find out the hunger of public market traders for business, which was seen the least 10 years back and turned out to be wildly famous, but also unprofitable.

Uber in the 3rd quarter dimmed $ 1.07 billion and is struggling with a slowdown, but its gross bids, at $ 12.7 billion, reflect the firm's large scale. His profit for the quarter was $ 2.95 billion, which is actually 5 % more than last quarter. Applications increased by only 6% in the quarter.

Uber has raised in the range of $ 18 billion from a large number of traders since 2010, and now it shines the maximum period for publication.

SoftBank's investments, which closed in January, which gave the Japanese trader a 15 percent stake in Uber, included a state that is being asked by Uber to apply for an IPO by September. 30 of the appropriate year or the company risks the fact that the restrictions on the transfer of promotions of shareholders will end.

Uber has not officially elected underwriting Banks, but Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, the fastest way, will receive key roles, said informants . Lyft hired JPMorgan Chase & Co, Credit Suisse and Jefferies as underwriters.

The Wall Street Journal spoke about the Uber filing earlier on Friday.

The situation of the SCANDAL

The freeze up public firm will deliver an inflated degree of trader control and influence to Uber, which has been traumatized by a number of scandals when the firm was appointed head to co-founder and last year, CEO Travis Kalanick, who retired last year.

The debate included accusations of sexy harassment, obtaining medical records ladies, raped by Uber driver in India, a total failure and a Federal investigation tasks, covering the likely bribes to officials and illegal software providing in order to Dodge the regulators.

Khosrowshahi and his management team worked hard to reset the culture of the working space and the cleansing of the unrest, covering settlements with South American States over data breach and with the Autonomous car Alphabet, Waymo, which was filed in the Tribunal on Uber for stealing pay secrets.

Uber today is a different firm than the vision its founders offered to early stage traders, which has undoubtedly helped it freeze to death by the most highly valued venture capital firm in the United States.

Subsequently, concessions in China, Russia and South-East Asia, where Uber has implemented a personal business district rival, and even the possibility of another 1st merger in the middle East, Uber is distant from such, in order to be the predominant mass service ride a bike.

What is not the least, Uber works in more than 70 countries, while Lyft is located in the USA and Canada, but the smallest firm conceives mass expansion.