Big Tech Archive
Archives for February 2019
Tech workers have helped minimize the controversial employment practice within their industry, and now they’re pushing to stop it at a national level.
The company is risking what it values most — customer trust — in pursuit of building “the everything store.”
It’s the latest point of tension with tech employees who are against defense uses of the tools they’re building.
Dowd joins Kara Swisher on the latest episode, sitting in for Pivot’s regular co-host Scott Galloway.
It’s a big win for employee activists who have long demanded the change — but the new policies won’t apply to Google’s temps, vendors, and contractors.
TV and newspapers are out. Facebook and Google are in.
Silicon Valley has compromised our autonomy, Zuboff says: “They can take hold of our behavior and shift it and modify it in ways that we don’t know.”
Diller, the former CEO of Paramount and Fox, talks about the diminished power of movie studios and why “Netflix has won this game” on the latest Recode Decode.
The HQ2 contest was very Amazonian. So was its refusal to back down.
It’s a huge victory for groups that decried the billions in tax breaks the company brokered in secret, but some wish Amazon had stuck around and compromised.
The $800 billion tech giant will now build only one new corporate campus, located in Northern Virginia.
Magazine publishers are on board with Apple’s new subscription news service. Newspapers aren’t.
Experts weigh in on whether a for-profit journalism initiative can do what big tech can’t.
O’Connor thinks we’ll get a federal privacy bill this year. But she’s more concerned about the future of free speech on the internet.