Blendle is applying the iTunes model to journalism. But can it make micropayments work? As print circulations fall and ad blockers become ubiquitous, the question of paywalls is something most, if not all, newspaper publishers are pondering. One startup is offering a happy medium: a platform that lets users pay to read single articles that would usually sit behind a …
Getting to know Airbnb and Uber: Q&A with Brad Stone
The Upstarts is an illuminating new book documenting the culture, practices and impact of Airbnb and Uber. Author and Bloomberg journalist Brad Stone speaks to Courier. You wrote about about Amazon in your last book. To what extent did that experience influence Upstarts? Oh, significantly. I’ve been circling tech for about 20 years, and been building this mosaic of Silicon …