Jeff Bezos has taken a hands-off approach to Washington, staying above the fray, but that changes with his first-ever Congressional testimony on Wednesday
via @averyhartmans https://www.businessinsider.com/ ... @voxdotcom : Jeff Bezos said in 2018 that Amazon needs “to conduct ourselves in such a way that when we are scrutinized, we pass with flying c...
Twitter pulls funding for BuzzFeed's AM to DM due to the business impact of COVID-19, forcing BuzzFeed to suspend the show, with staffers' last day on April 28
BuzzFeed's Twitter morning show, AM2DM … Tweets: @bfnewsunion : Our statement on BuzzFeed suspending production of @AM2DM https://twitter.com/... A.B. / @alannabennett : When i got laid off from BuzzF...
A growing number of astrophysicists are leaving academia to join data science teams at tech companies amid a surging demand for machine learning expertise
Space scientists are abandoning the heavens to help you decide what to wear and watch and listen to. Whether it's stars or Stitch Fix, it's all about machine learning. Tweets: @wired , @hshaban , @ar...
The key value of Uber was its relentless innovation and promise to change the world, which the board forgot when it focused on stability in replacing Kalanick
When Uber hired Dara Khosrowshahi in 2017, the company board was solving the wrong problem. — The ride-hailing app was in the midst … Tweets: @danprimack , @eliotwb , @dkthomp , @mikeisaac , @seldo ...
Google says it will spend $13B this year on expanding data centers and offices across the US, adding a new office in Virginia as it doubles its workforce there
popular from Facebook and Google — are total crap w/r/t “job creation"http://www.cnbc.com/ ... http://twitter.com/... Ron Miller / @ron_miller : Have you ever toured a data center? It's crazy. There a...
Sources provide a behind-the-scenes account of Amazon's HQ2 selection process, say the company made the decision to split HQ2 in two in September
@StevenFulop, Mayor of Jersey City http://www.wsj.com/... Hamza Shaban / @hshaban : Amazon “controls elected officials, acquired the power to tax, and works with government to avoid sunshine laws. It'...
Profile of Campbell Brown, Facebook's head of news partnerships; sources say she controls a $90M budget that will pay partners to make original news programs
It was another terrible day for Facebook and the company had dispatched Campbell Brown, its head of news partnerships, to do some damage control. Tweets: @jason_kint , @charliebeckett , @linamkhan , @...