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For Airbnb, it was craigslist infiltration, which allowed Airbnb hosts to use the site as a sales platform.

(Groupon,

insisting that it was anything but: it was a tech start-up, a social network, a “community company,” an organization bent on reshaping society.

Paying violated a central tenet of Google; it did not pay fees to the millions of websites its search engine indexed to show on Google.com or Google News.

To cut down on all those random emails at GRAIL, Burns started a weekly newsletter, The Rundown. • It shows up like clockwork in all 750-plus employees’ inboxes, “just like the old afternoon or morning paper,” according to Burns. • The cheery opening: “It’s Friday, GRAILERers!” Each issue is about 1,400 words—a 5-minute read.

When the blogger Andrew Sullivan switched his site to a subscription model a few years ago, his analysis of the situation was striking. He called subscription the “purest, simplest model for online journalism: you, us, and a meter. Period. No corporate ownership, no advertising demands, no pressure for pageviews . . . just a concept designed to mak

In New York, a WeWork employee started showing up at locations operated by Knotel, another competitor, claiming to be the CEO of a start-up urgently seeking office space.

The publishing industry has suffered as bookstores vanish and print runs dwindle.