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Recode Daily: Samsung’s $1,980 foldable phone stole the show from the new flagship Galaxy S10
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Plus: Disney, Epic Games and others pull advertising from YouTube after a child exploitation controversy; Lyft will launch its pre-IPO roadshow in mid-March; this Spotify quiz is the best time-waster ages.
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Full Q&A: AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson on Recode Media
Recode - Eric Johnson
Stephenson talks about sports gambling, the potential of 5G, and buying Time Warner. On the latest episode of Recode Media with Peter Kafka, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson joined Peter onstage at the NBA
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Mark Zuckerberg explains why an ad-free Facebook isn’t as simple as it sounds
Recode - Kurt Wagner
That’s because “ad free” doesn’t just mean ad free. As trust in Facebook and its ability to handle user data has eroded over the past year, one particular question has been asked a lot: Why isn’t there
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Recode’s Code Commerce event returns to Shoptalk with Tim Armstrong, Poshmark, and the CEO who is reinventing Saks
Recode - Jason Del Rey
Join us on Sunday, March 3, in Las Vegas. For the fourth straight year, Kara Swisher and I are hosting some of the brightest minds in e-commerce and retail for a night of live journalism at An Evening
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The “PayPal Mafia” is teaming up once again at Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund
Recode - Theodore Schleifer
More turnover in the upper ranks of an industry that has had a ton recently. Keith Rabois — one of the more prominent investors in Silicon Valley, and a close friend of Peter Thiel’s since they were a
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The man who co-founded Bleacher Report is leaving the sports site
Recode - Peter Kafka
One of the world’s most popular sports properties is getting a new boss. One of the internet’s biggest sports properties is getting a new boss. Dave Finocchio — who co-founded Bleacher Report in 2005,
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Digital advertising in the US is finally bigger than print and television
Recode - Kurt Wagner
TV and newspapers are out. Facebook and Google are in. It was inevitable, but it’s finally here: Digital advertising businesses like Facebook and Google will be bigger in the US this year than traditional
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Recode Daily: Emoji are increasingly popping up in US court cases — and courts aren’t prepared to interpret them
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Plus: Amazon beat Google in Q4 smart speaker shipments; Trump signs the US Space Force into existence; the spectacular failure of the world’s only hard rock theme park. Emoji are showing up in US court
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Google and Facebook have become “antithetical to democracy,” says The Age of Surveillance Capitalism author Shoshana Zuboff
Recode - Eric Johnson
Silicon Valley has compromised our autonomy, Zuboff says: “They can take hold of our behavior and shift it and modify it in ways that we don’t know.” Beginning with Google’s development of targeted online
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Oakland’s teachers strike is another sign of economic inequality in tech’s backyard
Recode - Shirin Ghaffary
Teachers say they can no longer afford to live in an area that has seen an economic boom fueled by the tech industry. Thousands of public school teachers in California’s Oakland Unified School District
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Recode Daily: WhatsApp — and free speech — are at risk of “China-style surveillance” in India
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Plus: A coalition of 16 US states sues to stop Trump’s use of emergency powers to fund his border wall; China’s most popular app is a government propaganda tool built by Alibaba; Alexa and the search the
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WhatsApp is at risk in India. So are free speech and encryption.
Recode - Kurt Wagner
India is proposing new content laws that could be a “sledgehammer” for free speech. India is WhatsApp’s biggest market. It’s also suddenly one of the company’s biggest threats. Regulators in India, where
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Mithril Capital promised to be the “capstone” to Peter Thiel’s investment empire. It ended up as a major distraction.
Recode - Theodore Schleifer
A dozen former employees, investors in the fund, and other people close to the matter describe an investment firm in disarray. Seven years ago, a smooth-talking associate of Peter Thiel promised that had
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The UK Parliament wants to regulate Facebook. So does everybody else.
Recode - Kurt Wagner
The UK’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee called Facebook a “digital gangster” — but it’s not the only group of regulators out for blood. The cries to regulate Facebook are getting louder and
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Recode Daily: Facebook has behaved like “digital gangsters,” says a UK report on fake news and data privacy
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Plus: Northern Virginia is keeping Amazon’s 25,000 jobs; Amazon invests in a rival to Tesla’s electric cars; what all the US presidents served at state dinners — and what it means. Comparing Facebook “digital
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“Hollywood is now irrelevant,” says IAC Chairman Barry Diller
Recode - Eric Johnson
Diller, the former CEO of Paramount and Fox, talks about the diminished power of movie studios and why “Netflix has won this game” on the latest Recode Decode. Before he became a tech mogul, IAC and Expedia
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How long before big media companies become big sports-gambling companies?
Recode - Peter Kafka
Sooner than you think. But AT&T, which owns HBO, TNT, and CNN, says they won’t be taking your bets. Sports betting in the US used to be illegal, for the most part. Now it’s up to individual states to if
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Amazon’s grave HQ2 mistake: The political landscape changed but the company’s playbook didn’t
Recode - Jason Del Rey
The HQ2 contest was very Amazonian. So was its refusal to back down. No one looks good in the wake of Amazon’s decision to scrap plans for a giant New York headquarters in Long Island City, Queens. The
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Amazon dumps NYC, shocking developers who had rushed to be near its new HQ2
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Plus: Trump will declare a national emergency to get money for his wall; JPMorgan Chase creates its own cryptocurrency; meet Australia’s first tech billionaires. In a startling and rare defeat for the
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Facebook may be facing a “multibillion-dollar” fine from the FTC. Here’s why.
Recode - Kurt Wagner
Cambridge Analytica is still causing headaches for Facebook. The FTC isn’t messing around. The Federal Trade Commission, which is still investigating Facebook for potential privacy violations related how
Tech Industry
You still can’t edit your tweets, but you may soon be able to “clarify” them
Recode - Kurt Wagner
“That’s not what I meant!” Twitter doesn’t have an “edit” button, which means if you say something stupid or inaccurate or that gets taken out of context, you’re either stuck with that tweet forever or
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Amazon’s opponents have mixed reactions to the company suddenly changing its NYC plans
Recode - Shirin Ghaffary
It’s a huge victory for groups that decried the billions in tax breaks the company brokered in secret, but some wish Amazon had stuck around and compromised. When grassroots activists and local politicians
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Amazon has canceled its NYC headquarters plans in a stunning defeat
Recode - Jason Del Rey
The $800 billion tech giant will now build only one new corporate campus, located in Northern Virginia. Faced with mounting opposition from New York politicians, activists, and labor unions, Amazon on
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Recode Daily: New California Governor Gavin Newsom proposes a “data dividend” for state residents
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Plus: Newspapers are upset that Apple wants 50 percent of the revenue from its forthcoming subscription service; Levi’s files for an IPO as it reaches beyond denim; teen journalists memorialize victims
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Why venture capital doesn’t work for everyone
Recode - Eric Johnson
On the latest Recode Media podcast, Indie.vc founder Bryce Roberts says it’s only for the 1 percent of the 1 percent. When we talk about entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley, the words “venture capital”
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Americans feel as bad about billionaires today as they did during the 2009 recession
Recode - Theodore Schleifer and Rani Molla
One theory: It has less to do with Elizabeth Warren and more to do with Donald Trump. Billionaires are on defense these days — academics, liberals, and even some billionaires are questioning whether they

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Recode Daily: Samsung’s $1,980 foldable phone stole the show from the new flagship Galaxy S10

Full Q&A: AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson on Recode Media

Mark Zuckerberg explains why an ad-free Facebook isn’t as simple as it sounds

Recode’s Code Commerce event returns to Shoptalk with Tim Armstrong, Poshmark, and the CEO who is reinventing Saks

The “PayPal Mafia” is teaming up once again at Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund

The man who co-founded Bleacher Report is leaving the sports site

Digital advertising in the US is finally bigger than print and television

Recode Daily: Emoji are increasingly popping up in US court cases — and courts aren’t prepared to interpret them

Google and Facebook have become “antithetical to democracy,” says The Age of Surveillance Capitalism author Shoshana Zuboff

Oakland’s teachers strike is another sign of economic inequality in tech’s backyard

Recode Daily: WhatsApp — and free speech — are at risk of “China-style surveillance” in India

WhatsApp is at risk in India. So are free speech and encryption.

Mithril Capital promised to be the “capstone” to Peter Thiel’s investment empire. It ended up as a major distraction.

The UK Parliament wants to regulate Facebook. So does everybody else.

Recode Daily: Facebook has behaved like “digital gangsters,” says a UK report on fake news and data privacy

“Hollywood is now irrelevant,” says IAC Chairman Barry Diller

How long before big media companies become big sports-gambling companies?

Amazon’s grave HQ2 mistake: The political landscape changed but the company’s playbook didn’t

Amazon dumps NYC, shocking developers who had rushed to be near its new HQ2

Facebook may be facing a “multibillion-dollar” fine from the FTC. Here’s why.

You still can’t edit your tweets, but you may soon be able to “clarify” them

Amazon’s opponents have mixed reactions to the company suddenly changing its NYC plans

Amazon has canceled its NYC headquarters plans in a stunning defeat

Recode Daily: New California Governor Gavin Newsom proposes a “data dividend” for state residents

Why venture capital doesn’t work for everyone

Americans feel as bad about billionaires today as they did during the 2009 recession