Atlas Obscura raises $2.5 million in new funding
Billing itself as the “definitive guide to the world’s wondrous and curious places,” Atlas Obscura has raised an additional $2.5 million in another round of funding, following its initial $2 million round in… Read more »
“Fierce Imaginative Possession”: Literature and Competition
Last week, Buzzfeed published an essay by the writer Isaac Fitzgerald about his encounters with books during his youth and early adulthood. In the piece, Fitzgerald described a few of… Read more »
Why doesn’t Apple like Amazon, wonders the guy who just got $12 million from Jeff Bezos?
Business Insider owner Henry Blodget has questions. Questions like: Why can’t I buy Kindle ebooks more easily on my iPhone? Why does Apple insist on charging 30% in its app store?… Read more »
We hope to see you again soon (cue ominous laughter)
Reading Business Insider is always an exercise in non-euclidean logic, but yesterday Slate blogger Matthew Yglesias pointed us to a doozy, a brief article on Amazon with reasoning so tortured… Read more »
Research suggests we should all gang up on Amazon or we’re all going to die
It seems Amazon hasn’t run out of other businesses to threaten yet — according to a Business Insider report by Henry Blodget, no less than Google should be running scared… Read more »