Second is the aforementioned Y Combinator, the incubator that has seed funded startups worth a combined $ 30 billion, including Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe, and a whole host of other companies you're probably familiar with. (stratechery.com)
But a host of other companies use free in a much more traditional way — as an enticement for paid upgrades. (entrepreneur.com)
The airlines join a host of other companies such as AT&T (t), Boeing (ba) and Wells Fargo & Co (wfcnp) promising to pay bonuses or invest more in training after the biggest overhaul of the U.S. tax code in 30 years, which cuts the corporate tax rate. (fortune.com)