Can I still get the AUX cord?... Not the type of question bus drivers like to get. Uber is selling its ride-tracking, route-mapping software to public transit agencies on a subscription basis. We're calling it UaaS: Uber as a Service. It's Uber's latest move to diversify beyond gig ride-hailing. And CA's Marin County Transit is the first guinea pig:

• Booking: When Marin riders open the Uber app, they'll see an option for Marin's public transport van. They can book it just like a regular Uber, but with no booking fee.
• Paying: Riders pay a $4 per mile fare, but share it with other riders going the same direction. Fares are then passed directly to Marin Transit.

Tech-ifying public transit... Uber already includes public transit info in-app in some big cities. Like: what's the fastest subway line and how much will it cost. But now it's actually getting paid by a transit agency to include it as a booking option through its app. Right now, the Marin service only includes four six-seater vans. Uber thinks it could grow way beyond this:

• Uber plans to partner with more transit agencies after testing the waters in Marin for $80K. Imagine what Uber could charge San Francisco or Mexico City?

Summer BBQ just got plant-ier... Plant-based meat icon Beyond Meat is expanding beyond the four-pack. The corona-crisis and a national meat shortage has won the alt-meat gang some bandwagon fans: Last week, sales of meat alternatives nearly tripled compared to the year before. And Beyond wants more in on the stay-at-home, food hoarding action:

• Meat the "Cookout Classic": That's the value pack of 10 meatless patties that Beyond just unveiled for $15.99. It's 8 patties stronger than its traditional, unhoardable 2-pack.

This is more than just Grill Season marketing... It's a pricing war with (literal) beef. The new value packs lower the price of Beyond meat per pound, narrowing the price gap with traditional (cheaper) beef patties:

• $12/pound: That's what's a 2-pack of Beyond patties sells for at Target. AKA "Beyond Budget."
• $5.26/pound: That's the price of real beef according to the Dep't of Agriculture.
• $6.40/pound: That's the plant-based poundage of Beyond's new value pack — aggressively narrowing the gap with beef.
• Beyond's goal: "Making plant based meat accessible to all." For a limited time only, of course — the value pack will only be available through summer.

• Stop: Bankrupt Hertz suspends its plan to sell $500M in new shares after SEC objections — the stock was briefly halted from trading yesterday.
• Musky: New Tesla registrations in California fell 37% in April and May.
• Travel: Airport checkpoint staple CLEAR launches a product that links biometric data (like fingerprints) to COVID-19 health data.
• Raise: Target will raise its minimum wage for hourly workers to $15, up from the pre-pandemic $13.
• Moderate: The DOJ proposes a rollback of the wide legal protections online platforms enjoy — it could make companies like Facebook liable for the content users post.

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Disclosure: Authors of this Snacks own shares of Uber and Beyond Meat

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