Friday six-pack: six news items to get you ready for weekend cocktail parties and other current events chatter:
1. A Graceful Exit. It’s easy to craft optimistic prose when announcing the launch of a new business, but it’s another thing when it’s time to say goodbye. The cofounders of Readmill, an e-reading app for Android and iOS, issued a thoughtful exit message to users when they confirmed that the Berlin-based startup has been acquired by Dropbox, and the app will shut down July 1. “At every turn, your feedback shaped Readmill’s development, and your passion signaled a new chapter for reading. Together we wrote in the margins of e-books and discussed our favorite passages from across the world. Thank you for helping to bring this reality into view.” Market research firm Gigaom speculates Dropbox shelled out about $8 million to acquire Readmill for its technology that helps readers share and leave notes for each other within e-books, said Henrik Berggren and David Kjelkerud, who are moving to Dropbox’s San Francisco office, according to TechCrunch.
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