Yes, People Do Buy BooksThis week fellow Substacker Elle Griffin published “No one buys books,” which looks at quotes and stats from the DOJ vs. PRH (Penguin Random House) trial where the government successfully blocked PRH’s $2.2 billion purchase of Simon & Schuster.
Why Are Established Brands Using Kickstarter?Kickstarter and crowdfunding platforms like it have generally been thought of as a place for startups to gain enough capital to bring projects to life.
India’s difficult business environment is improvingYour browser does not support the <audio> element. Ramesh Muthuramalingam founded Alphacraft, a manufacturing firm, 25 years ago in a small workshop in the southern city of Coimbatore. It now operates out of a 4,500 square-metre (50,000 square-foot) factory, piled with aluminium cast parts.
Many large U.S. cities are in deep financial trouble. Here's whyMunicipal governments across the United States are looking to rein in spending as pandemic-era stimulus dries up and inflation lingers for longer than expected. "Clearly there are significant capital needs across the U.S.
Ford looks to future EV breakthroughs — and smaller cars — to staunch the bleedingFord is the No. 2 seller of electric vehicles in the US. It’s very proud of that fact, but the amount of cash it had to burn to get there is enough to make you wonder whether it can keep that title. The company reported its first quarter earnings last night, and woo boy, it’s rough.
Tiny Biosensor Is Just a Cup, a Membrane, and a MagnetA wireless, chipless prototype biosensor offers the prospect of simple, wearable tech that can continuously monitor blood-sugar levels and other biochemical and physiological markers.
Boeing’s problems were as bad as you thoughtExperts and whistleblowers testified before Congress today. The upshot? “It was all about money.” Boeing went under the magnifying glass at not one, but two Senate hearings today examining allegations of deep-seated safety issues plaguing the once-revered plane manufacturer.
The First AI Gadgets Are a Cautionary TaleThe sudden explosion of AI products has been, for the most part, a story told through software. Consumer AI is all about chatbots, media generators, plug-ins, and new features installed into apps that people already use.
I was put on a PIP at a top tech company. I saw the warning signs but it was still traumatic — here's how I bounced back.This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with a 36-year-old former program manager-turned-entrepreneur in San Francisco. The source's name and employment history are known to Business Insider but are not named to protect their privacy.
Tokyo’s Public Toilets Will Leave New Yorkers SobbingThe restroom designed by Shigeru Ban at Yoyogi Fukamachi Mini Park in Tokyo, as it appears at night. Movies are machines for generating envy, but you can keep your mauve sunsets and cinematic peaks, your luscious gowns and roast birds shellacked to implausible perfection.
My Fiancée Hid Her Fortune From Me, And Let Me Pay All the BillsI (she/her) ended my relationship with my fiancée (she/her) last year. We lived together for many years. When I met her, she was unemployed, as she’d had a business venture fail.
Student Protesters Are Schooling Their UniversitiesWhat is a university for? At Columbia University and its affiliated women’s college, Barnard, it is ostensibly to value critical thought, a broad mind, and a commitment to reason. Only look at their websites, as any prospective student might do.
America's plastic catastropheChina stopped taking our plastic waste. Now we're drowning in it. America has long had a plastic problem.
Beyond Neuralink: Meet the other companies developing brain-computer interfacesThis article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first, sign up here.
Big Tech Squares Off Against US SpiesThe US Senate is poised to vote Thursday on legislation that would extend a global wiretap program authorized under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).