earlier, i was speaking to andrew hawkins, transportation editor at a new service covering the tech industry, and he told me what wall street was worried about. while uber's fundamental business model appears to be improving and gaining strength, it's still not completely out of the woods. and what i mean by that is that there are still a lot of regulatory issues, there's a lot of legal expenses that the company has been having to pay. it had to make a massive settlement brought on by a class action suit by taxi drivers in australia and here in the united states. it's still facing a lot of questions around driver classification. the company obviously classifies its drivers as independent contractors, but a number of courts in state legislatures would like them to classify them as employees and pay them as such. so i think some of that uncertainty, uncertainty as well as issues around the seasonality of the company and its equity investments, are continuing to sort of drag down the company's profits. michelle, staying with the tech world, we are getting reports from reuters that us prosecutor