Month: May 2017
Anatomy of a managed marketplace
Ezra GalstonContributor Ezra Galston is a venture capitalist with Chicago Ventures. More posts by this contributor: The Middleman Strikes Back The Trillion-Dollar Market To Remake Business Applications Managed marketplaces (also known as end-to-end or full-stack marketplaces) have been one of the hottest categories of venture investment over the past several years. Recent examples of high-flying managed marketplaces […]
Have a lover, have friends, read books. Montaigne was right about one thing | Germaine Leece
We think we are escaping ourselves when we read literature, but we might be going deeper into our interior worlds through the therapy of reading. The understanding that literature can comfort, console and heal has been around since the second millennium BC; it is no coincidence that Apollo was the god of medicine as well […]
No bailout funds for Greece as eurozone finance chiefs fail to agree deal
IMF and eurozone states fail to bridge divide over Greek debt relief raising prospect of a summer crisis for the single currency if Athens misses repayment. Eurozone finance ministers have failed to agree a debt relief plan for Greece, raising the prospect of a summer crisis for the single currency bloc if Athens misses a […]
10 new features coming to your phone in Android O
Dave Burke, Google Vice President of Engineering for Android, speaks during the opening keynote address at the Google I/O 2017 Conference. Image: Getty Images/ Though we got our first peek at Android O back in March, Google finally revealed more details this week at its I/O developers conference about the soon-to-drop version of Android. Though […]
Fentanyl seized by law enforcement doubled in 2016, DEA says
(CNN)The United States is seeing a dramatic increase in drugs containing fentanyl, newly released data from the Drug Enforcement Administration shows. From 2015 to 2016, more than twice as many drugs seized by law enforcement agencies and submitted to labs have tested positive for fentanyl, in what appears to be an escalating trend. The National […]