Presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard approached Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey about hosting a fundraiser on her behalf, Recode has learned. Dorsey, who has given money to Gabbards campaign, ended up turning her down. What makes her request unexpected is that she h…
23andMe, the popular DNA testing company, is laying off about 100 employees or 14 percent of its workforce as consumer demand for its kits has weakened. The company said that a variety of factors, including privacy concerns, could have contributed to the slow…
A new investigation suggests that the hacking of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezoss phone stems from a WhatsApp account linked to Saudi Arabias Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and one seemingly innocuous video file. The alleged hack shows that security online is never g…
Big Tech has a target on its back. Right now in the US, there are multiple, simultaneous government investigations focused on the business practices of each of the four Big Tech giants Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook that could someday lead to the breakup…
Google and YouTube may no longer be welcome at one of the worlds largest LGBTQ Pride Parades. Last week, members of the organization San Francisco Pride (SF Pride) voted to ban Google from participating in future celebrations, saying that the company doesnt…
Marc Benioff is betting on the power of trees. Benioff, the garrulous billionaire founder of Salesforce, loves to needle other tech leaders for being insufficiently civic-minded. On Tuesday, he took his routine to Davos, Switzerland, and the World Economic F…
For years, Netflix executives have been asked about competition from long-standing competitors like HBO and from new entrants into the subscription video market, like Amazon. And for years, Netflix executives answered with a variation on a theme: Theres plen…
The security company Rings online sales in the US grew 180 percent in December compared with a year earlier, according to new data from Jumpshot, a data analytics firm that tracks URL data from a sample of tens of millions of people. These sales have continue…
An estimated 130 people die from opioid-related drug overdoses each day in the United States, and 2 million people had an opioid use disorder in 2018. This public health crisis has left officials scrambling for ways to cut down on illegal sales of these contr…
Last year, Spotify made a splash when it bought a series of podcasting companies. Now it may be at it again: The company is in conversations to buy The Ringer, the podcast-centric startup founded by sports media entrepreneur Bill Simmons. Spotify, which spen…
If you own a smartphone, particularly one that runs Googles Android operating system, you have no doubt noticed it came with a bunch of pre-installed apps that you cant remove. Some of these are necessary for the device to function; others are not, and you ma…
Twitter, Microsoft, and LinkedIn and dozens of other tech companies are calling for an end to a new rule that places restrictions on low-income immigrants entering or living in the US. The companies signed onto an amicus brief filing in the the U.S. Court of…