Different Issues for Next Wave of Tech Earnings Reports Many of the factors that hurt last week’s earnings will be minor this week, but companies like Apple and Facebook have their own challenges. By PUI-WING TAM
The No-Good Week in Tech’s (Hopeful) Trip to a Bright Future A deeper reading of recent earnings reports shows an industry in transition, and perhaps getting ready to get even bigger. By QUENTIN HARDY
Online Media Is Tested When Social Platforms Come to Town Online media is being abruptly transformed by social media platforms and centralizing apps. But Andrei Hagiu, an economist, sees familiar patterns. By JOHN HERRMAN
A Hot App Discovers Virality, and Its Downsides As the creators of Down to Lunch have discovered, immense popularity can lead to an array of problems. By QUENTIN HARDY
Google Remains Stuck in Europe’s Regulatory Cross Hairs In the second set of charges in consecutive years, the search company was charged with breaking the region’s competition rules. By PUI-WING TAM
Want to Be Forgotten Online Without Google? Forget It. As the Internet gets to be a bigger part of everyone’s lives, it may increasingly be that only the biggest Internet companies can do Internet-scale tasks. By QUENTIN HARDY
Tech Companies May Face a New Cost to Paying in Shares Wall Street is increasingly wary of the amount of equity that publicly traded tech companies award employees, especially when those companies stumble. By QUENTIN HARDY
The Week in Tech: The Next Big Thing, According to Mark Zuckerberg Quentin Hardy fills in for Farhad Manjoo and joins Mike Isaac for a discussion of virtual reality and how Facebook is trying to get ahead of the pack. By MIKE ISAAC and QUENTIN HARDY
Microsoft Goes on Offensive Against Justice Department The software giant argues in a lawsuit that law enforcement is too aggressive in seeking gag orders on its information requests. By JIM KERSTETTER
Many Verizon Customers Not Likely to Notice Strike The East Coast workers who walked off the job Wednesday are largely employed in the wireline business, though a handful of wireless employees joined them. By JIM KERSTETTER
Bots are Back, and They Might Even Be Welcome These automated software critters are growing in popularity, especially now that they’re doing more than pretending to be a human in a call center. By JIM KERSTETTER
Facebook’s Developer Conference Kicks Off On Tuesday Mark Zuckerberg is expected to address Facebook Messenger and Facebook Live among other topics. By PUI-WING TAM
Intuit, a True Survivor, Relocates to the Cloud The company, famous for its personal finance and tax programs, has sold off its traditional software business and reinvented itself as an online service. By JIM KERSTETTER
Billing by Millionths of Pennies, Cloud Computing’s Giants Take In Billions This economics of tiny things demonstrates the global power of the few companies, including Amazon, Microsoft and Google, that can make fortunes from the small. By QUENTIN HARDY
The Week in Tech: Facebook Live, a More Civil Reddit and Yahoo’s Odd Deal-Making Michael de la Merced, of DealBook, fills in for Farhad Manjoo and joins Mike Isaac for a discussion of all that and Twitter’s football deal. By MIKE ISAAC and MICHAEL J. de la MERCED
Amazon Encounters a Bumpy Road in India Amazon and some of its rivals appear to have run afoul of new rules around foreign ownership of e-commerce companies operating in India. By PUI-WING TAM
Reddit’s Small Step to Tame the Internet’s Toxic Culture The online discussion forum introduced a tool that lets users block others from sending them harassing messages, in a shift away from the laissez-faire web. By PUI-WING TAM
F.B.I. May Have Put Down Sword, but Privacy Debate Goes On The F.B.I. won’t say what it found on the San Bernardino gunman’s iPhone, and WhatsApp says it has encrypted all communications, as the push-pull over digital privacy continues.
HTC Vive Is Latest Virtual Reality Product in a Growing Market A flood of virtual reality products are now becoming available but the technology still has a long way to go. By PUI-WING TAM
China Moves Into Position to Develop Self-Driving Cars Gansha Wu, a veteran engineering manager at Intel, has jumped into the autonomous car industry in China, with a start-up called Uisee Technology. By PUI-WING TAM
Different Issues for Next Wave of Tech Earnings Reports Many of the factors that hurt last week’s earnings will be minor this week, but companies like Apple and Facebook have their own challenges. By PUI-WING TAM
The No-Good Week in Tech’s (Hopeful) Trip to a Bright Future A deeper reading of recent earnings reports shows an industry in transition, and perhaps getting ready to get even bigger. By QUENTIN HARDY
Online Media Is Tested When Social Platforms Come to Town Online media is being abruptly transformed by social media platforms and centralizing apps. But Andrei Hagiu, an economist, sees familiar patterns. By JOHN HERRMAN
A Hot App Discovers Virality, and Its Downsides As the creators of Down to Lunch have discovered, immense popularity can lead to an array of problems. By QUENTIN HARDY
Google Remains Stuck in Europe’s Regulatory Cross Hairs In the second set of charges in consecutive years, the search company was charged with breaking the region’s competition rules. By PUI-WING TAM
Want to Be Forgotten Online Without Google? Forget It. As the Internet gets to be a bigger part of everyone’s lives, it may increasingly be that only the biggest Internet companies can do Internet-scale tasks. By QUENTIN HARDY
Tech Companies May Face a New Cost to Paying in Shares Wall Street is increasingly wary of the amount of equity that publicly traded tech companies award employees, especially when those companies stumble. By QUENTIN HARDY
The Week in Tech: The Next Big Thing, According to Mark Zuckerberg Quentin Hardy fills in for Farhad Manjoo and joins Mike Isaac for a discussion of virtual reality and how Facebook is trying to get ahead of the pack. By MIKE ISAAC and QUENTIN HARDY
Microsoft Goes on Offensive Against Justice Department The software giant argues in a lawsuit that law enforcement is too aggressive in seeking gag orders on its information requests. By JIM KERSTETTER
Many Verizon Customers Not Likely to Notice Strike The East Coast workers who walked off the job Wednesday are largely employed in the wireline business, though a handful of wireless employees joined them. By JIM KERSTETTER
Bots are Back, and They Might Even Be Welcome These automated software critters are growing in popularity, especially now that they’re doing more than pretending to be a human in a call center. By JIM KERSTETTER
Facebook’s Developer Conference Kicks Off On Tuesday Mark Zuckerberg is expected to address Facebook Messenger and Facebook Live among other topics. By PUI-WING TAM
Intuit, a True Survivor, Relocates to the Cloud The company, famous for its personal finance and tax programs, has sold off its traditional software business and reinvented itself as an online service. By JIM KERSTETTER
Billing by Millionths of Pennies, Cloud Computing’s Giants Take In Billions This economics of tiny things demonstrates the global power of the few companies, including Amazon, Microsoft and Google, that can make fortunes from the small. By QUENTIN HARDY
The Week in Tech: Facebook Live, a More Civil Reddit and Yahoo’s Odd Deal-Making Michael de la Merced, of DealBook, fills in for Farhad Manjoo and joins Mike Isaac for a discussion of all that and Twitter’s football deal. By MIKE ISAAC and MICHAEL J. de la MERCED
Amazon Encounters a Bumpy Road in India Amazon and some of its rivals appear to have run afoul of new rules around foreign ownership of e-commerce companies operating in India. By PUI-WING TAM
Reddit’s Small Step to Tame the Internet’s Toxic Culture The online discussion forum introduced a tool that lets users block others from sending them harassing messages, in a shift away from the laissez-faire web. By PUI-WING TAM
F.B.I. May Have Put Down Sword, but Privacy Debate Goes On The F.B.I. won’t say what it found on the San Bernardino gunman’s iPhone, and WhatsApp says it has encrypted all communications, as the push-pull over digital privacy continues.
HTC Vive Is Latest Virtual Reality Product in a Growing Market A flood of virtual reality products are now becoming available but the technology still has a long way to go. By PUI-WING TAM
China Moves Into Position to Develop Self-Driving Cars Gansha Wu, a veteran engineering manager at Intel, has jumped into the autonomous car industry in China, with a start-up called Uisee Technology. By PUI-WING TAM