Timothy B. Lee
Former senior correspondent
Latest articles by Timothy B. Lee


Here’s how to figure out how much a mattress is really worth. And how to opt out of the mattress-haggling game altogether.


“Real estate is by far the most screwed up industry in America,” CEO Glenn Kelman said in 2007. Now he says he “can’t walk around with a swagger and talk about destroying an industry.”


Twitter needs a new CEO, and one of its most prominent investors wants the interim CEO, Square CEO Jack Dorsey, to take the job permanently.


Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Rick Perry, and Ted Cruz have all made smart reform proposals that didn’t get mentioned on Thursday night.


The merged firm could control as much as 75 percent of the US online travel booking industry.


Pundits love Carly Fiorina, a business executive who stood out from her rivals at a debate of second-tier Republican candidates.


Two Republican candidates for president have vowed to tear down cyberwalls. What’s the heck is a cyberwall?


A leading Jewish dating site has sued a competitor for infringing its broad computer dating patent.


One of the biggest sticking points has little to do with trade — it’s about a rule to benefit big US drug companies.


Amazon wants to carve out a new section of the airspace for small, autonomous vehicles.