Big Tech
Vox’s coverage of the big players in tech and their monopoly on the industry.


Streaming TV should be easy, but fights among Roku, Amazon, HBO, and NBC are making it hard.


The pandemic was a huge boost for Amazon’s grocery business. Can it do the same for this new offering?


The world’s richest person makes his move.


The EU’s competition commission says the tech giant uses non-public data from its own merchants to compete against them unfairly.


Eric Schmidt is effectively buying a passport that he can use to enter the European Union.


Videos questioning the election results are racking up hundreds of thousands of views.


Californians will vote on whether ride-hailing drivers should be independent contractors or full-time employees.


Despite antitrust investigations and a recession, Big Tech is doing great.


We took a closer look at the unproven claims lawmakers made about Facebook, Google, and Twitter.


In the end, the Section 230 hearing didn’t have much to do with Section 230.


In the wake of a $100 million Amazon bribery scandal, sellers say the tech giant deserves more scrutiny for suspending merchants with no warning and little explanation.


A new browser setting will do what Do Not Track didn’t, but you could switch to a more private browser right now.


The Department of Justice says the company’s anti-competitive business practices harm Americans.


The Massachusetts senator wants the attorney general to resign. She also wants him to sue Google.


There’s a new way to listen to Vox stories and podcasts: “Your News Update” on the Google Assistant.


The new tool will allow shoppers to virtually reserve their place in line.


The report scrutinizes the ways the four biggest tech companies have amassed enormous market power.


The new tool would also track other non-union threats to the company, like crime and weather.


California voters get a chance to shape internet privacy rules for the rest of the country in November.


New York and New Jersey are the latest states to use the Apple-Google exposure notification tool.


Some workers are raising concerns in light of larger tensions over labor organizing.


The company just announced a tiny drone that can carry a Ring camera anywhere in your home.


The brick-and-mortar retailer is trying to invent a digital future where it’s a leader of Amazon rather than a follower.


Public health authorities won’t need to make their own apps in order to use Apple and Google’s exposure notification tool.


One Walmart executive says the new program is “the ultimate life hack.”


Amazon’s marketplace is fertile ground for schemes targeting the sellers behind the e-commerce giant’s success.


Some feared the pandemic would widen the gap between the haves and have-nots of retail. That fear is now reality.


The new order is the latest in Trump’s escalating crackdown on the Chinese-owned app over alleged national security concerns.


Virginia is the first US state to come out with an app that uses Bluetooth-based tech, nearly three months after its release.


Walmart+ will cost $98 a year and include same-day delivery of groceries, fuel discounts, and other perks.


The TikTok/Microsoft deal — if it happens — will make it harder to shrink Facebook or Google. Do you think Donald Trump cares about that?


The record sales that prompted Amazon to pay workers more during the pandemic aren’t abating — so will it reinstate those bonuses?


The heads of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google fielded questions from members of Congress, some better than others.


The company plans to wipe out all of its carbon emissions — and keep going.


Jeff Bezos was calm and polite in his first congressional appearance. But he did nothing to quiet a huge concern.


At a historic antitrust hearing, many conservatives focused on political drama instead of asking big tech CEOs questions about their market power.


The heads of Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon are going to get grilled. But that won’t lead — directly — to regulation.


Bezos will join the CEOs of Apple, Facebook, and Google at a congressional antitrust hearing on Wednesday.

It looks like we’re stuck with video chat. Is that such a bad thing?


Weekend getaways like these aren’t uncommon. But they are drawing more and more scrutiny.