Enlarge / Yahoo logo at the 2014 International CES conference in Las Vegas. (credit: Getty Images | Ethan Miller ) Verizon is reportedly ready to give up on Yahoo and AOL after spending a combined […]
Biden’s labor secretary says gig workers should be considered employees
Labor Secretary Marty Walsh is looking at you, Uber and Lyft. | Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images That could mean big trouble for companies like Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash. US Labor Secretary Marty Walsh told Reuters […]
Amazon employees say you should be skeptical of Jeff Bezos’s worker satisfaction stat
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. | Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images It’s difficult to get honest feedback from workers who fear retaliation. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos recently said warehouse employees like working for his company so much […]
GamesBeat Summit 2021: Laura Miele takes Visionary Award, and Natasha ‘ZombaeKillz’ Zinda gets Up & Comer Award
The Visionary Award went to Laura Miele, chief studios officer at EA, while the Up & Comer Award went to Natasha “ZombaeKillz” Zinda.Read More
India’s IT companies scramble to handle COVID-19 surge
India’s IT service providers, which run much of the world’s back office operations, are scrambling to protect workers amidst COVID-19 lockdowns.Read More
The tactics police are using to prevent bystander video
Kian Kelley-Chung was wearing a black T-shirt with the logo of his documentary and art collective on the day last summer when he found himself filming the Washington, DC, police during a protest. It was […]
Cloud infrastructure spending grew 35% to $41.8B in Q1 2021
Global cloud services infrastructure spending grew to $41.8 billion in Q1 2020, a 35% year-on-year (YoY) rise.Read More
Amazon posts record profits as AWS hits $54B annual run rate
Amazon posted record profits on Thursday and signaled that consumers would keep spending in a growing U.S. economy.Read More
Bango: Digital advertising is not a reliable source of new customers
CEOs don’t see the value of digital marketing because it’s not tied to sales, martech company Bango said in its Board to Death report.Read More
How User Data Privacy and Antitrust Law Got All Tangled Up
This week we look at how the latest iPhone software update ties into the debate about regulating big tech.