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Silicon Valley loves Cory Booker. That could be a problem for him.

The Stanford grad is traipsing into a very different fundraising environment when he arrives in Silicon Valley this weekend.

By Theodore Schleifer Feb 22, 2019, 3:15pm EST

Ev Williams is finally moving on from Twitter

Williams, Twitter’s co-founder and longtime board member, announced he’s leaving the board.

By Kurt Wagner February 22

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Microsoft workers are demanding the company cancel its $480 million contract with the US military

It’s the latest point of tension with tech employees who are against defense uses of the tools they’re building.

By Shirin Ghaffary February 22

Recode Daily: Pinterest filed for a late-June IPO that could value it at $12 billion

Plus: Amazon will bring computer science courses to more than 1,000 US high schools; "unhackable" blockchains are now getting hacked; here’s your interactive Oscar ballot.

By Recode Staff February 22

Full transcript: New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd on Pivot

Dowd joins Kara Swisher on the latest episode, sitting in for Pivot’s regular co-host Scott Galloway.

By Eric Johnson February 22

Google will end a practice that prevents their workers from taking the company to court over workplace disputes

It’s a big win for employee activists who have long demanded the change — but the new policies won’t apply to Google’s temps, vendors, and contractors.

By Shirin Ghaffary February 21

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

Stephenson talks about sports gambling, the potential of 5G, and buying Time Warner.

By Eric Johnson February 21

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

That’s because "ad free" doesn’t just mean ad free.

By Kurt Wagner February 20

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

Join us on Sunday, March 3, in Las Vegas.

By Jason Del Rey February 20

Full video and transcript: Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi at Code 2018

By Recode Staff Updated Jun 4, 2018, 1:27pm EDT

"Just like Amazon sells third party goods, we are going to also offer third party transportation services. So, we wanna kinda be the Amazon for transportation."

Here’s how you can trace an ’80s hip-hop beat back to 1910

By Rani Molla@ranimolla May 30, 2018, 9:09pm EDT

Vox.com’s senior video producer Estelle Caswell explains it all.

Full video and transcript: Snap CEO Evan Spiegel at Code 2018

By Recode Staff Updated Jun 8, 2018, 11:05am EDT

"As time goes on, I think it will become clear to more and more people that our values are really hard to copy."

Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram was the greatest regulatory failure of the past decade, says Stratechery’s Ben Thompson

By Kurt Wagner Jun 2, 2018, 10:00am EDT

Instagram gave Facebook unfair reach, Thompson argues.

“I’m moving out of state”: How some Uber and Airbnb employees are trying to avoid California income tax

Nobody likes paying taxes, but new millionaires in California’s IPO gold rush are looking to protect their money.

By Theodore Schleifer February 6

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

More turnover in the upper ranks of an industry that has had a ton recently.

By Theodore Schleifer February 20

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

One of the world’s most popular sports properties is getting a new boss.

By Peter Kafka February 20

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

TV and newspapers are out. Facebook and Google are in.

By Kurt Wagner February 20

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

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."

By Eric Johnson February 20

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

Teachers say they can no longer afford to live in an area that has seen an economic boom fueled by the tech industry.

By Shirin Ghaffary February 19

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

India is proposing new content laws that could be a "sledgehammer" for free speech.

By Kurt Wagner February 19

Venture Capital

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

A dozen former employees, investors in the fund, and other people close to the matter describe an investment firm in disarray.

By Theodore Schleifer February 18

Full transcript: New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd on Pivot

By Eric Johnson@HeyHeyESJ Feb 22, 2019, 6:20am EST

Dowd joins Kara Swisher on the latest episode, sitting in for Pivot’s regular co-host Scott Galloway.

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

By Eric Johnson@HeyHeyESJ Feb 21, 2019, 6:20am EST

Stephenson talks about sports gambling, the potential of 5G, and buying Time Warner.

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

By Eric Johnson@HeyHeyESJ Feb 20, 2019, 6:20am EST

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."

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

By Eric Johnson@HeyHeyESJ Feb 18, 2019, 6:20am EST

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.

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

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.

By Kurt Wagner February 18

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

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.

By Eric Johnson February 18

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

Sooner than you think. But AT&T, which owns HBO, TNT, and CNN, says they won’t be taking your bets.

By Peter Kafka February 15

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

The HQ2 contest was very Amazonian. So was its refusal to back down.

By Jason Del Rey February 15

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

Cambridge Analytica is still causing headaches for Facebook.

By Kurt Wagner February 14

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

"That’s not what I meant!"

By Kurt Wagner February 14

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

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.

By Shirin Ghaffary February 14