A profile of Seznam, a leading search engine in the Czech Republic before Android's rise that is helping to inspire laws to limit Big Tech's power
Adam Satariano / New York Times : Tweets: @nytimes , @daiwaka , @mh4oh , @davidtvrdon , and @ondrej1974 Tweets: @nytimes : Seznam, a small search engine company in the Czech Republic, has been a thor...
Court documents show Google ran a campaign from 2018 to 2020 to “convince” staff that “unions suck”; Google refuses a judge's order to produce more documents
employee resource groups and other tools deployed by corporate diversity initiatives are technologies of union-busting. https://twitter.com/... Daisuke Wakabayashi / @daiwaka : In documents that Googl...
Google is aggressively pursuing a major cloud computing and AI contract with the Pentagon, three years after employee outcry ended similar work on Project Maven
& we will win again. https://www.nytimes.com/... @alphabetworkers : Our working conditions include our ethical concerns. Workers should have full transparency on the real world impacts of our labor AN...
A look at Democratic VP candidate Kamala Harris' deep ties to Big Tech, fostered during years in California, as critics say she did little to curb their power
Silicon Valley has enthusiastically backed Ms. Harris since she first ran for state attorney general in California a decade ago. Tweets: @kenvogel , @kenvogel , and @daiwaka Tweets: Kenneth P. Vogel /...
Digital volunteerism has spread alongside the pandemic, with community-driven projects like AllClear which provides a directory of COVID-19 testing locations
Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times : Tweets: @evelynrusli , @daiwaka , and @nytimesbusiness Tweets: Evelyn Rusli / @evelynrusli : Some good news... proud of my friends, especially @essenfeld, who w...
Sources: as Uber prepares to resume testing cars in autonomous mode in Pittsburgh, the cars still face issues, raising safety concerns
sometimes at night — at speeds as high as 55 miles an hour. Now, they won't operate at night or in wet weather, and they won't exceed 25 m.p.h., Uber said. http://www.nytimes.com/... Eric Boerer / @er...
Overview of the Senate hearing on foreign influence in social media, which heard testimony from Sheryl Sandberg and Jack Dorsey
Facebook and Twitter Finally Face the Music Matt Binder / Mashable : Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tweets opening testimony during congressional hearing Don Reisinger / Fortune : Watch Here: Twitter and Fac...
How Apple's assertive negotiating style alienated cable providers and networks, and hurt its efforts to revolutionize the TV industry
report John Gruber / Daring Fireball : The WSJ on Apple's ‘Hard-Charging’ Negotiations With TV Networks Terry Collins / CNET : Apple's arrogance likely squashed its streaming TV service Shawn Knight /...