Big Tech
Vox’s coverage of the big players in tech and their monopoly on the industry.
One whistleblower, Christopher Wylie, changed the course of Cadwalladr’s reporting on the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Are there more people like him out there?
It’s complicated and no one is happy.
Walmart bought Jet.com to compete with Amazon, but Jet founder Marc Lore is feeling the heat as e-commerce losses surpass $1 billion.
Long Island City may have lost the e-commerce giant, but it got plenty of real estate advertising.
“It’s one of the functions of building a big, powerful platform that has a lot of positive impact. There are other things that come with it. It’s your job to evolve.”
A new bill would tell you how much the ad-targeting data you give to companies like Google and Facebook is worth.
New legislation proposed by Sen. Josh Hawley that’s intended to rid social media of supposed political bias ignores the platforms’ real problems.
Workers joined community activists in demanding change from Google on sexual harassment in the workplace and plans for a censored search engine for China.
The one thing drivers really want is the one thing ride-hail companies don’t want to give them.
“Regulation is here and it’s time and it’s good,” Nicole Wong said onstage at Code 2019.
The Amazon Web Services CEO will sit down with Kara Swisher at Code Conference on Monday.
A small number of companies will win the streaming “battle royale,” says former Amazon Studios strategist Matthew Ball. Amazon is “guaranteed” to be one of them, he says.
Plenty of dodgy content is still allowed.
The government regulator has been questioning Amazon’s competitors about its Prime service and how it competes with its own marketplace sellers.
When the European Union looked at Google, it hit the company with about $9 billion in fines.
The e-commerce giant might buy Boost Mobile out of the Sprint and T-Mobile deal.
We use Glassdoor data to take a look at the opaque world of Google contractor treatment and pay.
On the latest Recode Decode with Kara Swisher, Weinberg explains why it’s time for Congress to step in and make “do not track” the norm.
Amazon is already doing a lot to reduce its carbon footprint — but employees say it’s not enough.
Zuckerberg, Bezos, and Gates shouldn’t have an outsize say in how we run our country, Giridharadas says on the latest episode of Recode Decode.
When Amazon was in trouble back in 2001, Jeff Bezos called professor and Good to Great author Jim Collins — and became his best student ever.
On the latest episode of Recode Media, former Amazon and Hulu employee Eugene Wei explains why Netflix and its competitors aren’t playing the same game.
Carter spoke with Recode’s Kara Swisher recently about AI ethics, tech regulation, and more, and you can hear the full conversation now on Recode Decode.
Friday was bad. But how’s Monday?
Why Uber’s biggest shareholder, SoftBank, is so important to understanding Silicon Valley today.
Making tracking cookies optional is only a half step toward privacy.
Uber says the protests haven’t impacted their business, but the global day of action shows drivers’ growing frustration.
As the company continues to reduce drivers’ pay, they’ll make their frustrations heard.
Why people are socializing more about crime even as it becomes rarer.
Big US publishers already make money from Amazon’s “affiliate” business. Amazon may pay them upfront to expand.
Harris, previously best known for his association with the Time Well Spent movement, compares the unchecked rise of tech to the “catastrophic” future of climate change.
Worker pay, however, is stagnating.
Apple built its own screen-time management app. Then things got weird on the App Store.
Plus: Why space will be a “trillion-dollar business.”
Haskell took up the reins of New York Magazine this year after its 15-year editor Adam Moss stepped away.
Amazon is sending a warning shot to competitors.
Angwin was fired Monday evening, and most of her staff resigned in solidarity. “I have to brush up on my coup literature,” she joked.
This could speed up the process for other companies to get the FAA’s okay.
On the latest Recode Decode, Kapor Klein says we need to “take a deep hard look at the BS notion of meritocracy.”
Hempel joined the site’s editorial team this year after 17 years at magazines like Businessweek, Fortune, and Wired.