Here’s the blow-by-blow on the final hours of Travis Kalanick’s tenure as CEO of Uber – NYTimes and WSJ

And some thoughts on where Uber (and Silicon Valley’s start-up machine culture) goes from here – NYTimes and Bloomberg

The latest Wall Street revolution appears to be driven in large part by companies like Creative Planning, a registered investment adviser in a suburb of Kansas City that’s helping lead a shift away from brokers and mutual fund companies in favor of “truly independent, low-cost investment advice” – NYTimes

Theranos and Walmart have agreed to terms resolving the dispute that ended an increasingly contentious 7-year relationship – WSJ

Altice USA quietly dropped its mammoth telecom IPO on the US this week, raising $1.9 billion and achieving a valuation of more than $20 billion as it opens trading on the NYSE today – WSJ and Bloomberg

George Clooney, start-up genius?  Considering the $1 billion sale of the Casamigas tequila brand that he launched with a few friends four years ago, it’s hard to argue otherwise – NYTimes and WSJ and Bloomberg

A Fed governor and acting OCC chief will reportedly inform the Senate Banking Committee today that they’re open to simplifying the Volcker Rule and revisiting bank capital requirements—both signs of the deregulatory wave hitting DC these days – WSJ and Law360

A tourism boom of late in Japan has been mostly welcome news—to a point. Those Super Mario go-cart tours and other attempts to deliver what amounts to pop-culture Japan, however, are not going over so well with the locals – WSJ