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By Kurt Wagner

Jeff Bezos has confirmed the HQ2 decision and it’s the embodiment of Amazon’s emotionless practicality

By Jason Del Rey

Why nonprofits should think more like tech companies

"Social Startup Success" author Kathleen Kelly Janus explains on the latest episode of Recode Decode.

By Eric Johnson
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Marc Benioff says he had rabbis and imams supporting the Prop C homelessness tax — but not tech CEOs

Business leaders are conditioned with a "Pavlovian" response against tax hikes, said the Salesforce CEO.

By Shirin Ghaffary

Here’s what Amazon HQ2 employees will face in Long Island City when it comes to transportation, housing and ... sewage

A lot of change is on the horizon for the Queens neighborhood.

By Rani Molla

Recode Daily: Waymo is launching the world’s first driverless car service next month

Plus: Google plans to double its NYC workforce to more than 14,000; Spotify launches in 13 markets in the Middle East and North Africa; inside Glossier’s "adult Disneyland" flagship store.

By Recode Staff

Josh Harder has won his congressional race to become the only venture capitalist in the House of Representatives

The entire race was effectively a referendum on Silicon Valley.

By Theodore Schleifer

How Amazon’s HQ2 and HQ3 locations compare with Seattle and the U.S. overall

"National Landing" and Long Island City have high office vacancy rates and are both cheaper places to buy homes than Seattle.

By Rani Molla

Airbnb is donating $5 million toward helping the homeless in San Francisco

It’s the biggest donation the company has made in its hometown to date.

By Shirin Ghaffary

Elon Musk: The Recode interview

Musk talks about his "excruciating" 2018, fighting with journalists on Twitter, why Tesla won’t build an electric scooter and much more.

By Kara Swisher
Code Conference

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

By Recode Staff

"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

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

"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

Instagram gave Facebook unfair reach, Thompson argues.

Is the Daily Beast the new Gawker?

The site’s new Editor in Chief Noah Shachtman wants to take "full, big, considered swings" at the targets who deserve it.

By Eric Johnson

Watch: Scott Galloway’s provocative predictions on Amazon, Walmart and the future of retail

Why Walmart will beat Amazon at groceries.

By Rani Molla

How a Democratic fundraiser taught everyone his Silicon Valley tricks

RevUp CEO Steve Spinner cracked the code on raising money for politicians online. And he says it’s not so different from raising money for a startup.

By Eric Johnson

The exec who built Snapchat Discover is leaving the company

Nick Bell is stepping down following some recent management changes and four-plus tumultuous years.

By Kurt Wagner

Amazon is dominant online, but local retail still has advantages Jeff Bezos can’t replicate

Sometimes it’s worth putting on your shoes and taking a walk.

By Kara Swisher

Snap’s former No. 2 executive Imran Khan is building a shopping startup

Khan plans to launch a new shopping platform in 2019.

By Kurt Wagner

Former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates explains how Donald Trump is trying to corrupt the Justice Department

Yates talked with Recode’s Kara Swisher shortly before the midterms at the AllRaise Summit in San Francisco.

By Eric Johnson

Voice tech like Alexa and Siri hasn’t found its true calling yet: Inside the voice assistant ‘revolution’

Until we invent something that wouldn’t be possible without voice, we’re just repurposing online content for our ears.

By Rani Molla
Podcasts

Why nonprofits should think more like tech companies

By Eric Johnson

"Social Startup Success" author Kathleen Kelly Janus explains on the latest episode of Recode Decode.

Is the Daily Beast the new Gawker?

By Eric Johnson

The site’s new Editor in Chief Noah Shachtman wants to take "full, big, considered swings" at the targets who deserve it.

How a Democratic fundraiser taught everyone his Silicon Valley tricks

By Eric Johnson

RevUp CEO Steve Spinner cracked the code on raising money for politicians online. And he says it’s not so different from raising money for a startup.

Former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates explains how Donald Trump is trying to corrupt the Justice Department

By Eric Johnson

Yates talked with Recode’s Kara Swisher shortly before the midterms at the AllRaise Summit in San Francisco.

Facebook followed Uber and Google and is ending forced arbitration for sexual harassment cases

Arbitration is now a "choice rather than a requirement" at Facebook.

By Kurt Wagner

Amazon’s HQ2 was a con, not a contest

On the latest episode of Pivot, Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway talk about Amazon’s two new "headquarters," the toxic waste of social media and the mixed bag of the 2018 midterms.

By Eric Johnson
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Google has responded to its employees’ demands about sexual misconduct. Here are the changes it will and won’t make.

The planned changes come a week after thousands of employees walked out over the company’s handling of sexual misconduct cases.

By Shirin Ghaffary

Twitter co-founder Ev Williams says in retrospect that showing how many followers you have wasn’t ‘healthy’

"It really put in your face that the game was popularity," he said.

By Theodore Schleifer

What happens to free speech when we all live in a virtual world?

When Oculus founder Palmer Luckey worries about anything, that’s where his mind goes.

By Kurt Wagner

San Francisco’s Prop C homelessness tax was a big win for Marc Benioff, but legal challenges may be coming

Opponents say the city "won’t see a penny" of the funds earmarked for the homeless.

By Shirin Ghaffary

John Skipper, ESPN’s former president, is back ... at a rival sports media company.

Skipper’s new goal is to make watching sports online a big business, starting in the U.S. with boxing.

By Eric Johnson

Facebook appears to have survived this election cycle — but that’s what we thought in 2016, too

It may be months before we can say with any confidence how Facebook performed during the midterms.

By Kurt Wagner

It’s official: Democrats will control the House

It’s a return to power after eight years in the minority.

By Ella Nilsen

Republicans will hold on to their Senate majority

The GOP was aided by a favorable map, allowing them to hold on to their Senate majority and keep confirming Trump judges.

By Dylan Scott

Microsoft’s president says we need to regulate facial recognition tech before ‘the year 2024 looks like the book “1984”’

Well here’s a frightening scenario.

By Kurt Wagner

Will the Democrats’ victory lead to tougher regulation of Silicon Valley? Even Europe’s tech czar isn’t sure.

European Commissioner of Competition Margrethe Vestager doesn’t sound sure that Election Day will change much in the U.S.

By Theodore Schleifer

American capitalism broke in the 1980s. Can it be fixed?

Washington Post columnist Steven Pearlstein talks about his new book, "Can American Capitalism Survive?" on Recode Decode.

By Eric Johnson

San Francisco has passed a first-of-its-kind tax on big businesses — like Square and Stripe — to help the homeless

The contentious measure, Prop C, has divided tech leaders.

By Shirin Ghaffary

On Election Day, the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower is blasting Facebook for still not doing enough

Christopher Wylie knows a bit about voter manipulation.

By Kurt Wagner and Theodore Schleifer

Amazon employees hope to confront Jeff Bezos about law enforcement deals at an all-staff meeting

The "We Won’t Build It" group sent a letter to the CEO this summer decrying the company’s relationships with police.

By Jason Del Rey and Shirin Ghaffary
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