Big Tech Archive
Archives for February 2017


Kalanick responded to a video that surfaced today of him yelling at an Uber driver.


The driver asks why the CEO has “dropped the prices” on its UberBlack service.


Meet YouTube TV.


Amit Singhal, a highly regarded engineer in Silicon Valley, denied the claims after top execs at the search giant presented them to him.


Hotels and apartment rental services like Airbnb are going to converge.


Berkshire Hathaway now owns 2.5 percent of Apple.


The Alphabet subsidiary is accusing its former employee, Otto co-founder Anthony Levandowski, of downloading 14,000 confidential files before he left the company.


The engineer who claimed she experienced sexual harassment and sexism at Uber tweeted that people she knew were being asked for personal information about her.


The company is continuing to expand the reach of its next-generation texting app.


Krikorian joined Uber after more than five years at Twitter to head up the company’s Pittsburgh headquarters.


But the tool remains in wide use.


The two mainstays of Silicon Valley were seed investors in the ride-hail company.


Yes, sometimes they fall out of your ears.


Remember when Jack Dorsey’s Square was supposedly crumbling? I do.


Apple: “We support efforts toward greater acceptance, not less.”