Link: A Feature on Line Corporation (Fast Company)
How Japan's Line App Became A Culture-Changing, Revenue-Generating Phenomenon: It's already a powerhouse in messaging, entertainment and merchandise, with payments and more on the way. Next »
Link: Kevin Kelly on Disruption, Stagnation, Bureaucracy and the Media Industry
The Shirky Principle: “Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.” — Clay Shirky I think this observation is brilliant. It reminds »
Link: Spotify's Imminent IPO (Financial Times)
Spotify hires Goldman to raise near $500m: Spotify has hired Goldman Sachs to raise about $500m, a new round of financing that is expected to value »
Link: BuzzFeed Founder Gets Interviewed: Part II (Medium, Matter)
Unfortunately there is some word limitation (the first post has 17,036 words) for Ghost blog posts at the moment, so I will have to split »
Link: BuzzFeed Founder Gets Interviewed: Part I (Medium, Matter)
Jonah [Peretti] had made a healthy amount of money from the Huffington Post sale — he was a co-founder, after all. But he wasn’t yet a »