On Techmeme's 20th birthday, its founder explains what's behind the site's consistency, debunks some supposed media trends, and outlines future directions
happy bday @Techmeme 🎂. Nearly old enough to drink. 🍻https://news.techmeme.com/ ... Dave McClure / @davemcclure : my favorite (un?)healthy addiction: @techmeme 💕🤓🔥 been an avid fanboi for 20 years — t...
At trial, the US DOJ asserted Googlers are trained to have sensitive conversations over chat with history off and avoid phrases like “market share” and “bundle”
Hi all, it's Tom Giles in San Francisco and Davey Alba in Washington.
Sources: Swiss company Mitto, which offers text message services to companies, tells clients co-founder Ilja Gorelik has departed after surveillance accusations
Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg : Tweets: @rj_gallagher , @tsgiles , and @bradstone Tweets: Ryan Gallagher / @rj_gallagher : “The lack of regulation & accountability has brought unnecessary privacy & secu...
A look at student activity monitoring software GoGuardian, whose usage in US schools exploded during lockdowns as some say it adds to kids' psychological strain
The pandemic caused schools to embrace laptops, tablets, Zoom, and an app called GoGuardian that tracks everything students (and, sometimes, parents) do online. Tweets: @talkpoverty , @bw , @gawkgawkt...
In lawsuit, DOJ says nearly half of Google search traffic in 2019 came from Apple products and estimates Google pays Apple $8B to $12B per year
payments that are as much as one-fifth of Apple's annual net income. https://twitter.com/... @toddbishop : Compared to the antitrust complaint against @Microsoft 2+ decades ago, the introduction to @T...
Dara Khosrowshahi, who completed 41 transactions with a total value of $12.7B as Expedia's CEO, is following the same playbook at Uber of buying competitors
Bloomberg : Tweets: @gerritd , @ewarren , and @tsgiles Tweets: Gerrit De Vynck / @gerritd : Uber is trying to acquire its way to dominance in the food delivery industry. That's no surprise for people...
How Jeff Beacher, owner of a Las Vegas nightclub frequented by celebs, helped build Airbnb's celebrity marketing program in 2015, making it into a luxury brand
For one week in the summer of 2015, consumers of celebrity gossip news couldn't escape Mariah Carey's trip to Malibu, California. Tweets: @vandermey , @tsgiles , @shiraovide , @vandermey , and @bloomb...
Peloton closes down 11% on its first day of trading, after raising $1.16B at a valuation of ~$8.1B
a company that sells $2,000 bikes that also makes you pay additional fees every month on top of the initial purchase choosing to go public while much of the market anticipates a coming recession did p...
Amazon's grave NYC HQ2 mistake: the political landscape changed but the company's playbook didn't
others are disappointed. Diana Budds / Curbed NY : Amazon HQ2 v. NYC is a lesson on the importance of transparency Stephanie Denning / Forbes : Why Amazon's Decision To Pull Out Of NYC Is A Loss Graha...
Facebook has intentionally kept Instagram's branding independent in consumers' minds; source says Zuckerberg requested Instagram's Stories functionality
Through the glass doors, beyond the giant camera logo and before the artisan coffee stand, visitors to Instagram's headquarters in Menlo Park … Tweets: @dannygroner , @ziadramley , @tsgiles , @thinkma...