Abbey Games (developer of Reus, Renowned Explorers, and Godhood) will end all employees' contracts at the end of the year ~games Article 1007 words 7 votes
Airbnb pledges to improve platform safety, including verifying 100% of hosts and listings by the end of next year ~tech Article 74 words 8 votes
The ham-handed, money-driven mangling of Sports Illustrated and Deadspin ~sports Article 2381 words 6 votes
'They're madly checking their payrolls': The ugly truth of Australia's underpayment epidemic ~finance business Article 1524 words 8 votes
Blizzard confirms departure of veteran developers amid cancelled projects ~games Article 378 words 27 votes
Deadspin revolt escalates, with mass resignations by staff ~news journalism Article 274 words 10 votes
Dropshipping journalism - Newsweek has become a financially-troubled, traffic-chasing outlet without a clear purpose ~news journalism Article 2608 words 9 votes
Nokia's collapse turned a sleepy town in Finland into an internet wonderland ~tech internet Article 2999 words 5 votes
H&M is the latest fashion brand to test out the concept of clothing rental ~finance business Article 315 words 5 votes
The cybersecurity firm Tiversa dominated an emerging online market—before it was accused of fraud, extortion, and manipulating the federal government ~tech security.cyber Article 14 048 words 6 votes
Sony will shut down its PlayStation Vue streaming service on January 30, 2020 ~tv Article 266 words 5 votes
Google owner Alphabet has made an offer to acquire wearable device maker Fitbit ~tech google Article 117 words 9 votes
When AWS, Azure, or GCP becomes the competition ~tech amazon.web services google.cloud platform Article 2087 words, published Oct 25 2019 7 votes
Pando sold to BuySellAds - Sarah Lacy reflects on 8 years building the company, and 20 years in tech journalism in Silicon Valley ~tech Article 2925 words, published Oct 23 2019 6 votes
Riding the unicorn—Peloton accidentally built a fitness cult. A business is a little more complicated. ~finance business Article 3227 words, published Oct 17 2019 8 votes
Ubisoft delays Watch Dogs Legion, Gods & Monsters, Rainbow Six Quarantine and dramatically drops financial targets ~games Article 547 words, published Oct 8 2019 8 votes
Are liberal arts colleges doomed? The cautionary tale of Hampshire College and the broken business model of American higher education ~humanities education.higher Article 4733 words 8 votes
SoftBank to take control of WeWork at a pre-funding valuation of $7.5B - $8B, according to sources ~finance business Article 11 votes
The not-com bubble is popping—The unicorn massacre unfolding today is exactly the opposite of what happened in 2000 ~finance business Article 514 words 22 votes
The merger between T-Mobile and Sprint could be good for US businesses, despite opposition from state attorneys general and consumer advocacy groups ~finance business Article 1170 words 5 votes
US President Donald Trump’s legal immunity has a countdown clock ~misc politics Article 543 words 9 votes
No one expected The Athletic could get people to pay for sports news. Now it has 600,000 subscribers ~finance business Article 649 words 8 votes
More bad news for Norwegian Air as the airline loses Norway's biggest single customer contract to domestic rivals SAS ~transport Article 415 words, published Oct 14 2019 4 votes
Domino's Pizza will pull out of three Nordic countries and Switzerland after sustaining significant losses ~finance business Article 522 words 10 votes
In 2019, multiple open source companies have changed course and their licenses to try to protect their businesses—is it the right move? ~comp open source foss Article 1596 words 10 votes
America’s Orthodox Jews are selling a ton of the products you buy on Amazon ~finance business Article 3451 words 11 votes
China is usually strategic and savvy. Why does it seem so upset about a tweet, an app, and a gamer in a mask in the absence of any real threat? ~misc politics Article 2451 words 13 votes
The architect for the Atari VCS retro console has quit the project, claiming he hasn't been paid in six months ~games Article 2506 words 8 votes
SoftBank seeking to take control of WeWork through financing package ~finance business Article 288 words 5 votes
The 'glass floor' is keeping America's richest idiots at the top ~finance business Article 1258 words 10 votes
A native plant is exposing the clash between traditional knowledge and Western conventions ~finance business Article 2040 words 8 votes
Jeff Bezos’s master plan - What the Amazon founder and CEO wants for his empire and himself, and what that means for the rest of us ~finance business Article 11 112 words, published Oct 8 2019 16 votes
American Airlines delays 737 MAX’s return until January 2020, as grounding costs continue to mount ~transport Article 1056 words 8 votes
As Denmark turns away from cash – MobilePay app is more popular than Facebook ~finance business Article 409 words 3 votes
Revealed: the 20 firms behind a third of all carbon emissions ~enviro climate change Article 1542 words 8 votes
Digital transformation is occurring at varying rates and inadvertently creating a new kind of digital divide in cross-border e-commerce ~finance business Article 516 words 3 votes
Scandinavian Airlines and Finnair have joined other partners including Icelandair in the Nordic Network for Electric Aviation ~transport Article 440 words 5 votes
Forever 21's bankruptcy shows that teens are outgrowing malls ~finance business Article 517 words 18 votes
Peter Rahal started RxBar out of his mom’s kitchen — then sold it for $600 million. Life on the other side of the entrepreneurial fantasy ~finance business Article 3227 words 7 votes