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Google CEO Sundar Pichai refused to rule out launching a censored search engine in China

By Shirin Ghaffary

U.S. internet speeds rose nearly 40 percent this year

By Rani Molla

Full Q&A: Ezra Klein and Kara Swisher on the future of journalism

Klein says Twitter has made journalists dumber, meaner and more reactive.

By Eric Johnson
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Procter & Gamble has acquired the startup aiming to build the Procter & Gamble for people of color

Tristan Walker’s Walker & Company is the maker of Bevel shaving products and the Form haircare line.

By Jason Del Rey

Republican lawmakers still think Google is biased against conservatives. Google still claims that it’s not.

Another day, a similar story featuring Google CEO Sundar Pichai.

By Kurt Wagner

Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s testimony to Congress today

Here’s what we learned when the search giant’s CEO answered questions from the House Judiciary Committee.

By Shirin Ghaffary and Kurt Wagner

Airbnb and Slack are considering untraditional IPOs that box out bankers like Spotify did

Airbnb and Slack are considering direct listings. Postmates, with JPMorgan’s help, is plotting the more traditional route.

By Theodore Schleifer

Memo from a ‘Facebook nation’ to Mark Zuckerberg: You moved fast and broke our country.

Maria Ressa, the journalist who co-founded Rappler in the Philippines, warns that her country is a "cautionary tale" for the United States.

By Eric Johnson

Recode has published 240 podcasts in 2018. Here are the 10 you really shouldn’t miss.

That’s a lotta podcast!

By Eric Johnson

Why so many recommendation sites promise to help you find the best stuff

Sites like the Strategist, Wirecutter, and BuzzFeed Reviews want to help you find the best of the best.

By Eliza Brooke
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.

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

New Verizon execs say old Verizon execs made a $5 billion mistake betting on AOL and Yahoo

And Verizon investors seem fine with that.

By Peter Kafka

Everything you need to know about Google’s controversial China plans in advance of today’s congressional hearing

The search giant and other tech firms have had a history of issues in the country over where to draw the line on government censorship.

By Shirin Ghaffary

Recode Daily: Inside the $21 billion market to track your every move

Plus: Was Spotify’s unusual IPO a trendsetter or an anomaly?; Amazon is making its own server chips — potentially threatening Intel; an interactive cannabis museum and 2019’s munchie trends.

By Recode Staff

Framebridge CEO Susan Tynan explains why it’s okay to be analog in a digital world

On this episode of Recode Decode, Tynan talks about overcoming investors’ skepticism in order to start her online framing company.

By Eric Johnson

Full Q&A: Y Combinator’s Sam Altman and Recode’s Kara Swisher discuss tech ethics, addiction and Facebook

Should Mark Zuckerberg fire himself? And other tough questions.

By Eric Johnson

Instagram’s leadership overhaul has begun in the wake of its founders’ departure

Vishal Shah has been promoted to lead all of Instagram’s product efforts.

By Kurt Wagner

A group of Google employees are calling on tech workers to band together to end forced arbitration

The practice is still prevalent across the tech industry despite recent criticism and some limitations on its use in cases of sexual harassment.

By Shirin Ghaffary
Podcasts

Full Q&A: Ezra Klein and Kara Swisher on the future of journalism

By Eric Johnson

Klein says Twitter has made journalists dumber, meaner and more reactive.

Framebridge CEO Susan Tynan explains why it’s okay to be analog in a digital world

By Eric Johnson

On this episode of Recode Decode, Tynan talks about overcoming investors’ skepticism in order to start her online framing company.

Full Q&A: Y Combinator’s Sam Altman and Recode’s Kara Swisher discuss tech ethics, addiction and Facebook

By Eric Johnson

Should Mark Zuckerberg fire himself? And other tough questions.

Axios’ Jonathan Swan explains what the press gets wrong about the Trump administration

By Eric Johnson

People in Trump’s West Wing are not always "running around with their hair on fire," Swan says in this conversation with the New York Times’ Maggie Haberman.

Surprise! Two-thirds of U.S. residents would have been happy to have their city win Amazon’s HQ2.

Most don’t think the split second headquarters is a big deal.

By Rani Molla

Axios’ Jonathan Swan explains what the press gets wrong about the Trump administration

People in Trump’s West Wing are not always "running around with their hair on fire," Swan says in this conversation with the New York Times’ Maggie Haberman.

By Eric Johnson

Why Lyft had to beat Uber to an IPO filing

The game theory behind the next phase of an old fight.

By Theodore Schleifer

Full Q&A: NBC journalists Chuck Todd, Andrea Mitchell and Hallie Jackson on Recode Decode

They talk about social media’s impact on democracy, how the media has changed under President Trump and who’s running in 2020.

By Eric Johnson

Here’s what happens when the big media companies take their content off Netflix

The streaming media pioneer could lose about a fifth of its content hours.

By Rani Molla

A new trove of internal Facebook emails is a stark reminder: You are Facebook’s product

Facebook’s business is built on collecting and capitalizing on peoples’ personal information.

By Kurt Wagner

The story behind Netflix’s $100 million ‘Friends’ deal

Netflix wanted it. So did Hulu. And WarnerMedia wants it back, soon. Probably. Here’s what that means.

By Peter Kafka

New York City has set the nation’s first minimum pay rate for Uber and Lyft drivers

The move could create a precedent for other U.S. cities where ride-hail drivers are organizing to earn higher wages.

By Shirin Ghaffary

Why Amazon is a ‘bully’ and Facebook and Google are ‘the enemies of independent thought’

The Atlantic’s Franklin Foer, author of "World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech," critiques the tech giants on the latest Recode Decode.

By Eric Johnson

Peloton now has more U.S. customers than SoulCycle, new data suggests

Tech-based home fitness companies are having a heyday.

By Rani Molla

Full Q&A: Casey Newton and Louie Swisher on the 300th episode of Recode Decode

They talk with Recode’s Kara Swisher about social media, video games and how we’ll use tech differently in 2019.

By Eric Johnson

How to make a big company more innovative

Former GE and NBCUniversal executive Beth Comstock talks about her new book "Imagine It Forward" with Recode’s Kara Swisher.

By Eric Johnson

Microsoft is more valuable than Apple again. Why?

NYU’s Scott Galloway makes the case for Satya Nadella as "CEO of the year" on the latest episode of Pivot.

By Eric Johnson

The federal government is cracking down on DJ Khaled and Floyd Mayweather for telling fans to invest in cryptocurrencies

The SEC’s moves come at a time when there’s a lot of doomsaying about the cryptocurrency economy.

By Theodore Schleifer

Here’s why an app for finding bikini pics is Facebook’s latest headache

Documents from an old lawsuit are leaking out. What is in the documents? And how damaging might they be to Facebook?

By Kurt Wagner

Mic has laid off the majority of its staff

The publisher is trying to sell the remainder of the company to Bustle Digital Group.

By Peter Kafka
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