RecodeTech Industry Google employees protest at Alphabet’s shareholder meetingRecode - Shirin GhaffaryFor the first time, Google employees coordinated with multiple activists and investors to create several proposals that they presented at a company shareholder meeting on Wednesday. Around 100 Google and
RecodeRecode Recode Daily: The hired guns of InstagramVox - Theodore SchleiferHow do gun companies manage to advertise on Instagram? Through influencers. Facebook technically forbids advertising firearms on its platforms, but gun companies have found a loophole: influencers — usually
RecodeMark Zuckerberg Facebook employees are not as happy with Mark Zuckerberg as they used to beRecode - Rani MollaFacebook employees have long been known for their fierce loyalty to the company and its founder Mark Zuckerberg. In the aftermath of numerous privacy debacles, including ones in which Facebook has exposed
Recode Here’s who owns everything in Big Media todayVox - Rani MollaThe media landscape used to be straightforward: Content companies — studios — made stuff — TV shows and movies — and sold it to pay TV distributors, who sold it to consumers. Now things are up for grabs:
RecodeCalifornia Supreme Court The high-stakes battle between Uber executives and drivers in California, explainedVox - Alexia Fernández CampbellUber and Lyft really, really don’t want their drivers to be company employees. Both ride-hailing companies have launched an aggressive public campaign to escape California’s crackdown on the gig economy.
RecodeRecode Recode Daily: Huawei gets ready for a bad yearVox - Rani MollaChinese telecom hardware company Huawei could lose $30 billion in revenue this year, according to its CEO. This realization comes weeks after President Trump effectively banned US tech companies from Huawei’s
RecodeFacebook Facebook may have too many users for its cryptocurrency to fail — even if you don’t trust itRecode - Theodore SchleiferFacebook doesn’t have much consumer trust. But it does have a hell of a lot of consumers. And that’s enough to make Libra, the new virtual coin that Facebook is announcing on Tuesday, the most consequential
RecodeRecode Recode Daily: Hong Kong protesters are setting precedents in the age of AI-powered mass surveillanceVox - Samantha OltmanProtesters in Hong Kong are finding novel ways to avoid surveillance and identification. As hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of protesters have filled the streets of Hong Kong in recent days to
RecodeHBCUs Why women in tech are being Photoshopped in instead of hiredRecode - Rani MollaAn image of a tech event in which two women CEOs were poorly Photoshopped into a group of 15 men reignited a discussion last week about tech companies’ ongoing failures to meaningfully diversify their
RecodeU.S. Politics Big Tech needs regulation, but DC must go to school before it goes to workRecode - Jeff BermanThis week’s social media stunner involves YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki refusing to acknowledge YouTube’s radicalizing effect on our politics. This came on the heels of last week’s social media nightmare,
RecodeTech Industry Recode Daily: The revolution may not be TelegrammedRecode - Shirin GhaffaryEncrypted messaging app Telegram faced a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in Asia, originating largely from China. The attacks, which Telegram’s CEO described as “state actor-sized,”
RecodeTrump Tower If the Senate won’t convict Trump, “Why is that bad for the Democrats?” asks the Intercept’s Mehdi HasanRecode - Eric JohnsonMehdi Hasan is confused about Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s strategery. Hasan, who writes for the Intercept and hosts its weekly podcast Deconstructed, joined Kara Swisher on the latest episode Recode
RecodeTech Industry Recode Daily: Facebook may be facing yet another potential privacy scandalRecode - Samantha OltmanInternal Facebook emails seem to show CEO Mark Zuckerberg played a role in questionable privacy practices. The Wall Street Journal reports Facebook is worried that emails from Zuckerberg and other employees,
RecodeAndrew Yang Andrew Yang is promising to revitalize America. His nonprofit tried, too, but couldn’t.Recode - Theodore SchleiferAndrew Yang spent six years as an evangelist for how startups could transform American cities, collecting accolades from the White House, delivering TED-style talks, and starring in documentaries. That’s
RecodeEvan Williams Twitter’s co-founder yearns for the time when bloggers couldn’t get instant feedbackRecode - Shirin GhaffaryEv Williams, CEO of the publishing platform Medium, may be best known for co-founding social media giant Twitter. But he sometimes misses simpler times on the internet, when people didn’t seek out instant
RecodeBoeing Delta’s CEO says the Boeing 737 Max 8 scandal has “traumatized” the aviation industryRecode - Emily StewartDelta CEO Ed Bastian said the Boeing 737 Max 8 scandal was “unthinkable” for the aviation industry — but he’s still standing by Boeing. Delta’s fleet never included the Boeing 737 Max 8 planes that were
RecodePlay buttonPBS Apple’s attempts to limit data sharing on kids’ apps is negatively impacting PBSRecode - Emily StewartA change Apple recently made to kids apps in its App Store is negatively impacting the Public Broadcasting Service, and the nonprofit broadcaster’s chief executive isn’t happy about it. Paula Kerger, longest-serving
RecodePlay buttonTech Industry Why SoFi would be interested in buying naming rights to the LA football stadiumRecode - Theodore SchleiferThe finance startup SoFi still won’t confirm that its name will adorn a new football stadium in Inglewood, California, that will be the home of the Los Angeles Rams and Chargers. But it is beginning to
RecodeTech Industry Rockefeller Foundation’s Rajiv Shah explains how tech can actually help save the worldRecode - Rani Molla“Five to seven years ago when I was in government and I’d come to the Valley and visit with CEOs and companies, there was this explicitly stated assumption that ‘because we’re at Facebook, we’re saving
RecodeNatasha Lyonne Russian Doll will be back for a second season on NetflixRecode - Emily StewartRussian Doll will be back for a second season on Netflix. Cindy Holland, vice president of original content at Netflix, and Natasha Lyonne, the co-creator, writer, director, and star of the show, made
RecodePlay buttonTrump Tower The media’s “Trump bump” wasn’t as big as you might thinkRecode - Emily StewartThe so-called “Trump bump” was real for the New York Times — but it didn’t last long, and it was overblown in the first place, according to the newspaper’s publisher. In an interview with Recode’s Peter
RecodeAdministrative Law Former leaders at Facebook, Google, and Twitter think regulation is coming for their old employersRecode - Theodore SchleiferThree people who have held senior roles at big tech companies all think that their former employers deserve more regulation — and maybe even to be broken up. In an interview with The Verge Silicon Valley
RecodePlay buttonTech Industry Tech companies are enabling a “machine of deportation” say leading immigrant rights advocatesRecode - Shirin GhaffaryIn the past year, many major tech companies such as Amazon, Palantir, Salesforce, and Microsoft have come under scrutiny for selling software to US federal immigration agencies. That’s because those agencies
RecodeUber Goldman Sachs’ CEO says the real test for Uber is how it does over timeRecode - Emily StewartGoldman Sachs CEO David Solomon thinks Uber will be just fine despite its less-than-stellar post-IPO performance since it went public in May. It just needs a little time, just like Facebook and Google
RecodeMary Meeker Mary Meeker’s most important trends on the internetRecode - Rani MollaIt’s the holiday season for data nerds: That is, Mary Meeker is delivering her annual Internet Trends Report — the most highly anticipated slide deck in Silicon Valley — again at Code Conference 2019.
RecodePlay buttonSusan Wojcicki YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki: The Code Conference interview (transcript)Recode - Eric Johnson“This year, this week, it was unfortunate,” YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki says. “We managed to upset everybody and we’re working really hard to try to do the right thing.” Speaking with Recode’s Peter Kafka
RecodeEvan Williams Medium CEO Ev Williams wants to get the internet right this time aroundRecode - Shirin GhaffaryWhen Medium founder and CEO Ev Williams co-founded Twitter back in 2006, he had no idea how powerful — for better or worse — the platform would become. Now, the man who helped coin the term “blogger” worried
RecodeTech Industry Delta Air Lines’ CEO has battled both the NRA and Bernie SandersRecode - Jason Del ReyIn February, some praised Delta Air Lines for how it treats its employees, after it announced that it was paying out more than $1 billion in profit sharing to them for the fifth consecutive year. But three
RecodePBS Between corporate media giants and Trump, PBS has big challengesRecode - Emily StewartPBS has been a political football for years, and with Donald Trump in the White House, it’s only gotten more complicated for the public broadcasting channel. Some Republicans seem hell-bent on defunding
