The NewCo Five collects the five most important stories for the NewCo economy that our editors found over the past seven days
1. General Electric is a 124-year-old BigCo going NewCo (Rachel Emma Silverman, Wall Street Journal)
2. Forget suburban nerdistans. Venture capital investment is heading downtown (Richard Florida, Atlantic CityLab)
3. Uber hits more detours on its journey to maturity (Sarah Leberstein, Quartz)
4. Software ate the economy. Is it housing’s turn now? (Conor Sen, Washington Post)
5. Not every “problem” Silicon Valley is solving is really a problem (Riva Melissa Tez, Medium)