Is business insider a credible source?

Yes and no. Founded as Silicon Alley Insider, it was renamed and relaunched as Business Insider circa 2009, by Henry Blodget. As others have noted, Mr. Blodget’s life has been controversial (a good article about his rise and fall and rise again is here: Henry Blodget's comeback complete after $343m sale of Business Insider). But Business Insider has continued to thrive, with millions of visitors to its website. Its core audience of "bankers, traders and tech geeks," wrote Ian Burrell, a reporter for England’s The Independent, " ... is overwhelmingly young and male. "They appreciate [Business Insider’s] mobile-friendly and graphics-illustrated guide to hot stocks." And writing for Bloomberg News, Leonid Bershidsky noted that the publication benefits from being digital-only, and that "60 percent of its traffic comes from mobile devices and 39 percent from social networks."

Founded as Silicon Alley Insider, it was renamed and relaunched as Business Insider circa 2009, by Henry Blodget. As others have noted, Mr. Blodget’s life has been controversial (a good article about his rise and fall and rise again is here: Henry Blodget's comeback complete after $343m sale of Business Insider). But Business Insider has continued to thrive, with millions of visitors to its website. Its core audience of "bankers, traders and tech geeks," wrote Ian Burrell, a reporter for England’s The Independent, " ... is overwhelmingly young and male. "They appreciate [Business Insider’s] mobile-friendly and graphics-illustrated guide to hot stocks." And writing for Bloomberg News, Leonid Bershidsky noted that the publication benefits from being digital-only, and that "60 percent of its traffic comes from mobile devices and 39 percent from social networks."