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

By Theodore Schleifer Feb 20, 2019, 2:18pm EST

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

By Shirin Ghaffary Feb 19, 2019, 6:31pm EST

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

From Vox Media

We're building great things, and we need your talent.

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

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

Recode Daily: Emoji are increasingly popping up in US court cases — and courts aren’t prepared to interpret them

Plus: Amazon beat Google in Q4 smart speaker shipments; Trump signs the US Space Force into existence; the spectacular failure of the world’s only hard rock theme park.

By Recode Staff February 20

Facebook

Facebook’s first 15 years were defined by user growth

From dorm room to global dominance, Facebook’s path to 2.3 billion users.

By Kurt Wagner and Rani Molla February 5

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

“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

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

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.

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

From Vox

Has Facebook been good for the world?

15 influencers weigh in on the company’s 15th birthday.

By Sean Illing, Kurt Wagner, and 1 other February 4

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

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.