Unprofitable companies are raising the most IPO cash since the dot-com era ~finance business Article 12 votes
Sony merges anime streaming businesses under Funimation-led joint venture ~anime Article 505 words 9 votes
Four years in startups - Life in Silicon Valley during the dawn of the unicorns ~tech Article 7520 words 6 votes
Sentry raises $40 million Series C from Accel and New Enterprise Associates ~tech Article 745 words 3 votes
British travel firm Thomas Cook collapses, stranding hundreds of thousands ~finance business Article 16 votes
Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the company would invest an additional 600 million euros into its Hamina data center next year ~tech google Article 3 votes
Crash course: How Boeing's managerial revolution created the 737 Max disaster ~transport Article 7618 words 12 votes
Control's Epic Games Store exclusivity appears to have initially cost Epic €9.49 million (~$10.45M USD) ~games Article 308 words 5 votes
Global climate strike sees thousands join children in Australian climate rallies ~enviro climate change Article 790 words 11 votes
Uber to limit drivers' app access to comply with NYC regulation ~transport Article 431 words, published Sep 17 2019 4 votes
Amazon will order 100,000 electric delivery vans from EV startup Rivian, Jeff Bezos says ~transport Article 360 words 6 votes
Google's Wing will test deliveries using drones from FedEx Express, Walgreens, and Sugar Magnolia in Christianburg, Virginia ~tech google Article 419 words 6 votes
Automattic (owner of Wordpress) raises $300 million at $3 billion valuation from Salesforce Ventures ~tech Article 653 words 5 votes
The skills that helped Adam Neumann fuel WeWork's breakneck growth are piling up as potential liabilities as the company prepares to go public ~finance business Article 7 votes
Productions that could have taken advantage of Swedish locations and craft expertise continue to run away to foreign locations for lower costs and tax incentives ~movies Article 1102 words 4 votes
Why rigged capitalism is damaging liberal democracy ~finance economics business Article 2166 words 5 votes
Inside the launch of the Cosmic Crisp apple, the “largest launch of a produce item in American history” ~food Article 4993 words, published Jul 18 2019 9 votes
GitLab announces $268 million in Series E funding, at a valuation of $2.75 billion ~tech Article 516 words 13 votes
Amazon changed its search system to boost more-profitable listings, including its own brands ~tech amazon Article 19 votes
Kickstarter’s year of turmoil - Multiple employees involved with a "Kickstarter United" effort to unionize have been fired over the past week ~tech Article 2611 words 13 votes
Analysis of PC game sales on Steam in 2019, by Mike Rose (founder of publisher No More Robots) ~games Link 13 votes
European regulators have ordered immediate checks on recently delivered versions of some Airbus helicopters after a crash in Arctic Norway last month ~transport Article 281 words 7 votes
The rise and fall of Iceland's tourism miracle – the widespread decline of tourism across the country presents intractable problems ~finance economics business Article 5860 words 8 votes
Recipe for disaster: The meteoric rise and ongoing demise of Blue Apron ~finance business Article 2628 words 7 votes
Sacklers would give up ownership of Purdue Pharma under US settlement proposal ~health medicine Article 1022 words 11 votes
Will the millennials save Playboy? ~news usa journalism Article 2721 words, published Aug 2 2019 10 votes
Runaway story or meltdown in motion? The unraveling of the WeWork IPO ~finance business Article 4570 words 10 votes
Coalition of fifty US attorneys general launch antitrust investigation into Google ~tech google Article 453 words 17 votes
The people who built Etsy dreamed of remaking commerce with their bare hands. Fifteen years later, its sellers are being asked to compete with Amazon. ~tech Article 7046 words 11 votes
Facebook is under investigation for antitrust violations by a coalition of the attorneys general of 8 states and DC, led by New York Attorney General Letitia James ~tech facebook social media Link 10 votes
Exxon Mobil has agreed to sell its Norwegian oil and gas assets for up to $4 billion – ending its production in a country where it started operations more than a century ago ~finance business Article 103 words 5 votes
IKEA has committed to becoming a circular business by 2030 – by eliminating waste and reusing resources ~enviro sustainability Article 1496 words 8 votes
US Senator says Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg should face ‘possibility of a prison term’ ~tech social media Article 309 words 14 votes
Swedish cashless app Swish is teaming up with six other companies to form a European network of mobile payment solutions ~finance business Article 395 words 5 votes