A timeline of warnings from investors over the past decade about a tech startup bubble that never burst; instead of a collapse, things got bubblier
The venture capitalists are sounding the alarm. At posh conferences, they buzz about falling valuations for start-ups.
A look at Intel's chip-making process at its Hillsboro, Oregon and Chandler, Arizona campuses and the infrastructure behind its two planned $10B Arizona fabs
As the global chip shortage continues, we take an inside look at how semiconductors are fabricated. Tweets: @sub8u , @jimpethokoukis , @dylan522p , @carlmalamud , and @puiwingtam T...
Sources: Meta is cutting back on staff perks like laundry service; CTO Bosworth and others chafed at the perceived sense of entitlement of complaining staff
The company told workers on Friday that it will reduce or eliminate some of its famous perks as it prepares for a return to the office.
A look at a newly revamped Whole Foods store in Washington, which uses palm-scanning Amazon One tech and Amazon's computer vision-enabled Just Walk Out tech
Amazon reaches a nationwide settlement with the NLRB to let its warehouse employees more easily organize, likely affecting over 1M current and former workers
likely more than 1 million people — with notifications of their organizing rights. By @KYWeise https://www.nytimes.com/... Pui-Wing Tam / @puiwingtam : In a year of push-pull betwe...
Amazon reaches a nationwide settlement with the NLRB to let its warehouse employees more easily organize, likely affecting over 1M current and former workers
The agreement's national scope and its concessions to organizing go further than any previous settlement that the e-commerce giant has made.
Internal docs: Instagram spent the majority of its global annual marketing budget since 2018 targeting teenagers, as it worries about losing its user “pipeline”
The app, hailed as Facebook's growth engine, has privately wrestled with retaining and engaging teenagers, according to internal documents.
Investigation shows Accenture is Facebook's biggest content moderation partner, employing over a third of its moderators, with annual contracts exceeding $500M
and none have been more important than Accenture. https://www.nytimes.com/... Marc Owen Jones / @marcowenjones : Accenture doing content moderation for Facebook. Seems like a downg...
Amazon has surpassed Walmart as the world's top retail seller outside China; FactSet says people spent $610B+ on Amazon in the 12 months ending in June
Proof that the online future has arrived: The biggest e-commerce company outside China has unseated the biggest brick-and-mortar seller.
A look at Fuck You Pay Me, a Glassdoor-like service where creators can review brands they have worked with and share ad rates
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Google plans to change its search algorithm to prevent sites that extort people to remove slanderous content from appearing in search results for people's names
finally!— that you don't solve the problem of slander sites with exploitative removal policies by inviting victims of them to play Whac-A-Mole with individual listings. https://www...
Google is experimenting with post-pandemic designs in 10% of its global work spaces, including inflatable balloon walls, hybrid meeting rooms, open-air tents
although I have to say, this looks like one of the most uncomfortable meeting spaces on earth https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/... @joshsternberg : If you're a $1.5 ...
A look at the frayed relationship between Mark Zuckerberg and Tim Cook as Apple rolls out its new privacy feature for iPhones
Facebook is not happy Emily Birnbaum / Politico : Senate to lift the hood on social media algorithms Ian Sherr / CNET : Apple's M1 chip gives Mac some iPhone shine. Now we find out...
With iPhone's privacy changes, advertisers will get more ad-performance data for ads bought through Apple than via third parties, giving its ad business an edge
Under the iPhone maker's new rules, advertisers will get more ad-performance data for ads bought through Apple than through third parties
A Florida teen who hacked well-known Twitter accounts last summer and used them to ask for BTC, netting $100K+, was sentenced to three years in a plea deal
Graham Ivan Clark, 18, agreed to plea guilty to fraud charges for a hack of several Twitter accounts last summer.
China's electronic yuan or eCNY is now being tested in Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Beijing; no major country is as far along with a homegrown digital currency
Emails show how Facebook responded to requests by Turkey to censor content during the authoritarian government's 2018 military offensive against Kurds
or risk getting shut down entirely. “I am fine with this,” wrote Sheryl Sandberg. My latest with @JustinElliott: https://www.propublica.org/... Jane Lytvynenko / @janelytv : “I am ...
As Trump searches for a new social network after his Twitter ban, a shift from mainstream platforms would mark a retreat to insular conservative communities
Twitter's decision to ban President Trump mere days before the end of his term sparked a fierce political backlash among …
High-stakes calls at Facebook or Twitter, corporate autocracies masquerading as mini-democracies, are just gut decisions made under extreme duress by their CEOs
not just in the precedent of law or the checks and balances of govt, but in the ability to deny access to the platforms that shape our public discourse. @NYTimes https://www.nytime...
Uber's self-driving unit, Advanced Technologies Group, to be acquired by rival Aurora Innovation in a deal valuing ATG at $4B; source: Aurora now valued at $10B
- Self-driving vehicle start-up Aurora is acquiring Uber's Advanced Technologies Group, which works on self-driving technology.