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Instead of typing inflammatory nonsense about the "quality of their journalism" you could have very easily looked up the definition of the word in the same amount of time. You're obviously just attempting concern trolling.

It's a very common term in British English (the Economist is a British magazine):

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/piling

It's no typo. to pile can also mean entering something (in this case a market) by force.

I think they use it in the same sense that the word “dogpiling” can be used:

> gerund or present participle: dogpiling

> (of a number of people) jump on top of another person or one another so as to form a disorderly heap. "the players poured out of the dugout to dogpile on Wright at second base"

Others covered the definition. It’s definitely awkward as written in that headline.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pile

> to move or press forward in or as if in a mass

Here you go. Pile in: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pile%20in

And "pile on" has a different meaning: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pile%20on

>If the Economist makes such mistakes in their headlines what does that say about the quality of their journalism?

IMHO, it has always been crap, because of their biases, and pandering to their audience.

But that's beside the point. "Mistakes in a headline" happen to the best of outlets, and always have had. I assume you are OK with an outlet making a typo now and then, no? (There's even a name for this phenomenon, the "printer's devil"), and that making some doesn't mean the outlet's journalism is bad, right?

Your question would only make sense if they frequently made typos, and showed some huge careleness about it. Not something one would generalize from seeing this ONE mistake.

Anyway, this isn't even a typo or mistake. It's a well known expression. Wouldn't it be prudent to first look it up in a dictionary before questioning those that dared to use it? It just means that SV businesses are jumping in that particular domain (piling in: to move into a place quickly).

Fair enough, I must remember to wake up properly and think before I type. I suppose it was the lack of a preposition that threw me. The jibe about the quality of their journalism was gratuitous nonsense and which I regret and apologise for.