Influence
The outbreak offers tech billionaires a chance to change the narrative about themselves.
“Activist investor” Elliott Management has targeted Dorsey, who runs Twitter and Square at the same time.
“If I live long enough, it ends with me.”
The Amazon CEO is being vague about some very big questions.
Amazon is a mega-polluter. Cleaning house at the company should be the CEO’s top priority.
What a $100 million home purchase would say about Amazon’s founder.
The story of the Saudi crown prince allegedly using WhatsApp to break into a billionaire’s phone is a quick lesson in cybersecurity.
How complicit was Silicon Valley?
Amazon fashion group leader Christine Beauchamp and Amazon advertising executive Colleen Aubrey are now two of three women on the “S-team.”
Sue Desmond-Hellmann has helped Bill Gates spend $5 billion a year.
“I’m the most sued podcaster and I love it.”
Jeff Bezos gave an estimated 0.1 percent of his wealth in 2018.
Zume Pizza is a Silicon Valley punchline, but investors are pouring millions into it.
Trump keeps saying Apple just opened a plant in Texas. The problem: The facility in question has been around since 2013.
Billionaires make calls just like us.
Anonymous whistleblower complaints. Federal investigations. And, now, lawsuits.
Caryn Marooney told Recode that her time at Facebook showed her “tech has real good and bad it brings to the world — and it’s important to look early at that.”
The Amazon CEO has pushed back on environmental criticisms and concerns over Amazon’s treatment of its sellers.
Facebook’s news project will pay some publishers millions for stories they’ve already written. It’s a major shift.
Does it matter if you’re being transparent if you aren’t really saying anything?
The Facebook CEO tried to rally staff in internal staff meetings this summer.
The tech giant’s hope is that federal lawmakers will adopt much of its draft legislation.
Mithril Capital raised over $1 billion on the name of Thiel, one of Silicon Valley’s biggest celebrities. Now federal investigators are looking under the hood.
Is that good? Is that bad? It’s definitely unusual.
However, Lake says on Recode Decode, she still hopes there’s a future for retail stores that deliver an experience to visitors.
One whistleblower, Christopher Wylie, changed the course of Cadwalladr’s reporting on the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Are there more people like him out there?
Shah says the most effective form of private philanthropy involves working with the public sector, “not trying to replace it.”
“This is not just about radicalization in America or in Western countries. This is about what’s going on around the world.”
Instagram is one of Facebook’s most valuable products and is on track to drive most of the company’s advertising revenue growth.
On the latest Recode Decode, MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito says we need to resist the urge to oversimplify the problems we’re solving.
Here are all the slides, plus analysis.
Instagram chief Adam Mosseri and Facebook AR/VR lead Andrew Bosworth will talk about the future of the social network at Code Conference 2019.
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.
“We may have to just throw our hands up and say, ‘Instead of continuing to try to change the establishment, let’s make our own establishment.’”
When it comes to Facebook shareholders, Zuckerberg’s vote is the only one that matters.
In the short term, learning to code is good for your job prospects. But on the latest Recode Decode, Cuban explained the important role liberal arts majors will play in the future.
Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world, has long been criticized for not signing the Giving Pledge.
“There is a better version of social media to be invented,” Williams said on the latest episode of Recode Decode with Kara Swisher.
Zuckerberg is passionate about Facebook’s products, but he has too much power and needs to give some of it up, Stamos says.
Amazon is already doing a lot to reduce its carbon footprint — but employees say it’s not enough.