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Eyeing a 2020 run, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti explains how he (or someone else) could beat Trump

By Eric Johnson Oct 17, 2018, 6:15am EDT

The new hotness for tech billionaires? Do-gooder investments they can write off on their taxes.

By Theodore Schleifer Oct 16, 2018, 5:50pm EDT

Amazon’s HQ2 announcement is imminent. Here’s a look at the final contenders.

Sort them by tech talent, rent and commute times.

By Rani Molla October 15

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Recode Daily: The hot new thing among the mega wealthy: Avoiding taxes by doing good

Plus: Silicon Valley stays quiet about the international backlash over the murder of a dissident Saudi journalist; Uber and Lyft are driving toward IPOs in 2019; emoji bagel justice.

By Recode Staff October 17

How Netflix drives culture, in one chart

The streaming service expects to add nine million new subscribers before the end of the year.

By Dan Frommer October 16

It turns out that Facebook could in fact use data collected from its Portal in-home video device to target you with ads

Who you call and what apps you use could determine what ads you see.

By Kurt Wagner October 16

Instacart’s new $7 billion valuation is a bet on the future of grocery delivery — not a wager against Amazon

The startup has a fresh $600 million in funding to boot.

By Jason Del Rey October 16

Jeff Bezos wants to send tourists into space in 2019

"They’ll have a day or two of training," he said.

By Kurt Wagner October 15

Instagram’s Kevin Systrom on leaving Facebook: ‘No one ever leaves a job because everything’s awesome’

Systrom has no idea what he wants to do next, but he knows he won’t just be sitting on a beach.

By Kurt Wagner October 15

Nobody trusts Facebook anymore. Here’s one way it could change that.

AnchorFree CEO David Gorodyansky says Facebook and other tech companies should make it easy for users to temporarily opt out of data collection.

By Eric Johnson October 15

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

By Recode Staff May 31, 2018, 2:33pm 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 May 30, 2018, 1:25pm 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.

Full Q&A: 2U CEO Chip Paucek on Recode Decode

Paucek says online education started out with a bad reputation, but now people are starting to take it seriously.

By Eric Johnson October 14

When big companies are hacked, should they have to disclose it immediately?

Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway mull the week in digital insecurity on the latest episode of Pivot.

By Eric Johnson October 13

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Inequality in Silicon Valley is getting worse: Wages are down for everyone but the top 10 percent

In America’s tech capital, the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.

By Shirin Ghaffary October 13

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

Why Walmart will beat Amazon at groceries.

By Rani Molla September 19

Politics

A venture capitalist is running for Congress in farm country. And his opponent is turning those Silicon Valley years into an insult.

The race between Josh Harder and Jeff Denham isn’t just about one seat. It’s a referendum on how people feel about Silicon Valley.

By Theodore Schleifer September 20

Mary Meeker’s 2018 internet trends report: All the slides, plus analysis

Here’s a first look at the most highly anticipated slide deck in Silicon Valley.

By Rani Molla May 30

Commerce

The rise of giant consumer startups that said no to investor money

A new breed of entrepreneurs is creating huge consumer brands — like MVMT and Tuft & Needle — without venture capital, and laughing all the way to the bank.

By Jason Del Rey August 29