Big Tech Archive
Archives for September 2019
Politicians in California have passed a new bill aimed at making gig economy companies give workers more protections, like a minimum wage. But the real test will be in the courtroom.
Your shopping habits, your family members’ names, even your salary is out there for anyone to see. But you can take back control.
Its competitors are consolidating, but Uber Eats says acquisitions aren’t in its near future.
Away’s co-founders said onstage at Code Commerce 2019 that people who buy competing luggage products on Amazon aren’t Away’s target customers.
The company is set to lose $1 billion this year in its attempts to compete with Amazon. That’s not a problem, says the Walmart executive who’s supposed to compete with Amazon.
Smith says it doesn’t matter if you’re not as responsible for breaking things as someone else — if you can be part of the solution, you should.
Get used to giving up control.
Organizers want to see the company reduce its carbon footprint, cancel contracts with fossil fuel companies, and stop lobbying for politicians who deny climate change.
Nearly a year after Google’s #MeToo walkout, a previously unreported internal document details dozens of employees’ stories of harassment and retaliation for reporting workplace issues.
An interview with Times reporter and author Mike Isaac, on covering a titanic battle and being used as leverage in that battle.
Investigations into Big Tech are all the rage right now — including among state attorneys general.