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Silicon Valley’s Saudi money crisis illustrates a decline of ‘moral leadership’ in America

By Eric Johnson Oct 19, 2018, 6:15am EDT

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Facebook found its new public face: Former U.K. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg

By Kurt Wagner Oct 19, 2018, 11:32am EDT

Peter Thiel cut his largest check to the GOP since Trump’s 2016 win

Thiel is giving $1 million to the Club for Growth, a hardline conservative advocacy group.

By Theodore Schleifer October 18

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23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki says ‘one of our biggest competitors’ is fake science on sites like Goop

Wojcicki on Gwyneth Paltrow: "Some of the things that she promotes don’t actually have the scientific validity that my team would be able to stand behind."

By Eric Johnson October 20

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

Why no one really knows how many jobs automation will replace

Even the experts disagree exactly how much tech like AI will change our workforce.

By Shirin Ghaffary October 20

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

Resy is winning newer, cooler restaurants away from OpenTable

The upstart is taking share. Can it build from there?

By Sayer Devlin October 19

Recode Daily: Uber is building tools to Uber-ize all kinds of work

Plus, how SoftBank is handling the global fallout of the Khashoggi crisis; Apple sets the date for another new hardware event; the awkward etiquette of iPad tipping.

By Recode Staff October 19

Brandless wants to create the next great consumer packaged goods brand — but it hasn’t built customer loyalty yet

Third-party data puts its sales and customer retention below its peers.

By Rani Molla October 18

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.

Marc Benioff voiced concerns on a San Francisco homelessness measure months before becoming its most prominent booster

The high-profile tech exec was critical of the initiative as late as this summer, according to July emails sent by him and seen by Recode.

By Theodore Schleifer October 18

Trump’s latest China threat could crush the $8 billion Amazon competitor Wish. Here’s its plan to fight back.

The days of Wish building its company on the back of artificially low shipping rates may be over.

By Jason Del Rey October 18

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

From Vox

How blockchain will allow for fewer counterfeit goods and faster product recalls

The technology behind bitcoin is coming for retail, and you probably won’t even notice.

By Hilary George-Parkin October 18

The media is responsible for President Trump and it still hasn’t learned from 2016, says Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi

Taibbi says the difference between the campaign and today is "we replaced a million hours of Trump with a million hours of ‘Trump is bad.’"

By Eric Johnson October 18

23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki says ‘one of our biggest competitors’ is fake science on sites like Goop

By Eric Johnson@HeyHeyESJ Oct 20, 2018, 1:00pm EDT

Wojcicki on Gwyneth Paltrow: "Some of the things that she promotes don’t actually have the scientific validity that my team would be able to stand behind."