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Spotify lost more money than ever last year — which is great news for Spotify

by Peter Kafka May 23, 2016, 3:18p

The streaming music service's losses increased — but revenue grew much faster.

Facebook is tweaking Trending Topics to counter charges of bias

by Kurt Wagner May 23, 2016, 7:32p

An internal investigation found no 'systematic' bias, the company says.

Silicon Valley season three, episode five: Shut up, Richard!

by Amy Keyishian May 23, 2016, 8:00p

Also, some tips on hard-drive disposal.
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Google hires Caesars casino exec as its new president of enterprise sales

by Mark Bergen May 23, 2016, 5:35p

Ka-ching.

Lyft riders can finally schedule rides

by Johana Bhuiyan May 23, 2016, 2:44p

For drivers, it's business as usual.

Facebook bought a startup to make its 360-degree videos sound better

by Kurt Wagner May 23, 2016, 2:43p

Facebook wants more VR content. This acquisition might help.

Amazon stopped giving refunds when an item's price drops after you purchase it

by Jason Del Rey May 23, 2016, 1:58p

Except for TVs.

U.S. smartphone growth dipped below 10 percent last year

by Ina Fried May 23, 2016, 1:30p

It's not just China that is seeing a slowdown.

Echo and Home are endpoints, not the endgame

by Jan Dawson May 23, 2016, 1:15p

Amazon is pursuing the same vision as Google — that of a virtual assistant that’s truly virtual, inhabiting all the different devices we interact with throughout the day.

U.S. smartphone growth dipped below 10 percent last year

by Ina Fried May 23, 2016, 1:30p

It's not just China that is seeing a slowdown.

Tinder wants to shut down three-way dating app 3nder

by Arik Hesseldahl May 23, 2016, 11:35a

The name, says Tinder, is pronounced too much like its own.

A new ABC News/Washington Post poll has Trump beating Hillary, and Twitter won't let you forget it

by Dawn Chmielewski May 22, 2016, 3:38p

The poll reveals that the race is tightening and too close to call, but Twitter doesn't care about nuance.

Hillary Clinton's horrible Venn diagram tweet has sparked a new meme

by Dawn Chmielewski May 20, 2016, 8:43p

She was trying to say something smart about gun control, but it backfired.

You can buy 'X-Men' tickets through Snapchat

by Kurt Wagner May 23, 2016, 12:18p

Fox is buying up every Snapchat lens available to promote the movie.

Viacom CEO says Sumner Redstone, who controls the company, can't communicate

by Edmund Lee May 23, 2016, 11:37a

Philippe Dauman has filed a suit against Redstone's daughter, saying she manipulated her father into removing him from the family trust.

Tinder wants to shut down three-way dating app 3nder

by Arik Hesseldahl May 23, 2016, 11:35a

The name, says Tinder, is pronounced too much like its own.

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Toyota is remaking the iBot, a stair-climbing wheelchair that was ahead of its time

by James Vincent May 23, 2016, 10:14a

The iBot motorized wheelchair was first unveiled back in 2001, but it still looks remarkably futuristic today. The device was created by Segway inventor Dean Kamen, and could climb stairs, raise users from sitting level to eye-height, and travel...

The soap opera at the top of Viacom intensifies | Recode Daily: May 23, 2016

by Noah Kulwin May 23, 2016, 8:17a

Sumner Redstone moves against his own company.

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JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon: Yes, tech will kill some jobs. But slowing tech down is the wrong answer.

by Eric Johnson May 23, 2016, 6:30a

"There are downsides to flying — people die every now and then. Do you want to stop all air flights?"

The Facebook papers pt 3: Facebook pulls a page from the Amazon playbook

by Tony Haile May 23, 2016, 6:00a

Expect to see a significant increase in the number of ultralight, platform-only publishers seeking to leverage their lower cost bases.

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon: Yes, tech will kill some jobs. But slowing tech down is the wrong answer.

by Eric Johnson May 23, 2016, 6:30a

"There are downsides to flying — people die every now and then. Do you want to stop all air flights?"

How can I ditch my carrier and just use Wi-Fi?

by Eric Johnson May 20, 2016, 6:30a

The dream: Keep your phone in airplane mode, forever.

Jason Hirschhorn's personal network made him rich. Then it saved his life.

by Eric Johnson May 19, 2016, 6:30a

"Crowdsourcing anything on the internet is usually a positive thing."

Tony Hsieh may sell Zappos' radical corporate culture as a service

by Eric Johnson May 18, 2016, 4:33p

No, it's definitely not a cult. Never mind the "people points."

Mossberg: Google doubles down on AI

by Walt Mossberg May 19, 2016, 9:00a

The mobile-centric mindset may be fading.

Capital Gains: A Facebook co-founder launches a VC fund and a 'global brand for dogs' lands $60M

by Noah Kulwin May 22, 2016, 6:38p

Bark & Co. wants to be the Disney of pet stuff.

The complete timeline to self-driving cars

by Johana Bhuiyan May 16, 2016, 7:00a

Self-driving cars are coming. The question is when and how.

A new ABC News/Washington Post poll has Trump beating Hillary, and Twitter won't let you forget it

by Dawn Chmielewski May 22, 2016, 3:38p

The poll reveals that the race is tightening and too close to call, but Twitter doesn't care about nuance.

For the attorney representing Uber drivers, the fight to settle employee classification lawsuits gets messy

by Johana Bhuiyan May 22, 2016, 1:45p

And just a little bit personal.

Three critical questions Google needs to answer after its big I/O conference

by Mark Bergen May 21, 2016, 6:00p

Distribution, distribution, distribution.

Apple CEO Tim Cook talks about his plan to open Apple stores and sell used iPhones in India

by Mark Bergen May 21, 2016, 3:00p

Watch his TV interview in Android country.

Google loves the mobile web so much it put the Chrome team under its search boss

by Mark Bergen May 21, 2016, 1:30p

Let Google count the ways.

Hillary Clinton's horrible Venn diagram tweet has sparked a new meme

by Dawn Chmielewski May 20, 2016, 8:43p

She was trying to say something smart about gun control, but it backfired.

Tucker Carlson accuses Glenn Beck of sucking up to Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg

by Dawn Chmielewski May 20, 2016, 4:36p

Beck "acted like he was auditioning to be Mark Zuckerberg's manservant."

Google really, really wants you to know that we're living in the 'early days'

by Mark Bergen May 20, 2016, 4:30p

The unofficial motto of Google I/O.

After three weeks in China, it's clear Beijing is Silicon Valley's only true competitor

by Cyriac Roeding May 13, 2016, 9:15a

After selling my startup, Shopkick, to SK Planet in 2014, and handing over my CEO role a year later, I packed up my 1- and 3-year-old sons and my wife Angel, and flew to Beijing, Shenzhen and Hong Kong for three weeks, hoping to better understand...

Jack Dorsey still wants to give Twitter employees $100 million of his Twitter shares

by Peter Kafka May 20, 2016, 3:25p

Wall Street likes it.

Amazon just raised its warehouse fees because it ran out of room last holiday season

by Jason Del Rey May 20, 2016, 3:03p

If its warehouses are as full as they were during the 2015 holidays, Amazon's profit will suffer.

What happened on Facebook Live this week? Artificially intelligent Super Mario and surprise piercings.

by Noah Kulwin May 20, 2016, 2:42p

A roundup of what publishers did with media's shiniest new toy.

Google Fiber is the most audacious part of the whole Alphabet

by Mark Bergen May 11, 2016, 6:00a

Forget self-driving cars and drones. Five years later, where is Google's broadband business going?

Developers can get their hands on Google's Project Ara modular phone by year's end

by Ina Fried May 20, 2016, 2:09p

Consumers will have to wait until next year.

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