Influence


The e-commerce giant is recruiting local businesses in Alabama, Mississippi, and Nebraska as part of a secretive new delivery program.


The loss at an Amazon sort center in Staten Island comes a month after a historic win at a nearby warehouse.


The billionaire says he wants to make Twitter a free speech platform. That’s easier said than done.


Musk paid $44 billion for Twitter. Next up: Making Twitter worth (at least) $44 billion.

The e-commerce giant’s labor issues expose the complicated truth about getting what we want when we want it.


Twitter may not be a great business, but it can buy you power and influence.


According to Musk, free speech costs about $3 billion.


The boring, crucial work that happens now that Starbucks and Amazon have unionized.

Inside Starbucks’s successful 21st-century union drive.


Amazon wanted to make former employee Chris Smalls the face of labor activism. He just handed Amazon its first US union.


Maybe government employees should be paid for with tax dollars, not private philanthropy.


Amazon isn’t competing with Netflix, but it is spending billions trying to figure out Hollywood. Maybe 007 can help.


Ukraine’s appeals to Silicon Valley get mixed results.


This key part of his plan for the metaverse could analyze your voice, eye movements, and body language.


How Elon Musk was falsely accused of sending a rocket to the moon.

The company’s new direction is already sparking antitrust concerns.


A $250 billion question.


Thiel played a key role at the company as an early investor and adviser to Mark Zuckerberg.


Cars are computers now, but the government hasn’t caught up.


The Prime membership fee is increasing to $139 annually, or $15 for those who pay monthly.

How Microsoft’s 20-year-old antitrust battle prepared it for today’s techlash.


Microsoft-Activision is like Disney-Fox. Maybe bigger.

Critics say the “everything store” does too much. Is 2022 the year antitrust hawks come for Amazon?

Inside the growing whistleblower movement that’s holding tech giants accountable for their missteps.


Shipping containers, explained by a historian.

Will Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Google survive the antitrust onslaught? And will Microsoft face it at all?


Blue Origin thinks all kinds of companies will want some space in space.



“Amazon is the only winner here.”


Critics often said Dorsey was distracted, but he shaped the company into what it is today.


The futuristic tech Mark Zuckerberg is investing billions in could remake the internet.


Rivian just had one of the biggest IPOs in stock market history.

Can Facebook be redeemed? Twelve leading experts share bold solutions to the company’s urgent problems.

Holiday season shipping is making supply chain problems worse, but there’s hope for next year.


Project Kuiper, the company’s satellite-based broadband service, is finally getting off the ground.


Facebook’s numbers are doing fine for now — but not its reputation.


Despite what conservatives say, Joe Biden is not trying to ruin the holiday shopping season.


The most popular holiday gifts might not arrive in time for the holidays, even if you order now.



