June 15, 2021 MacKenzie Scott gives away billions, again MacKenzie Scott has given away $8.5 billion of her estimated $60 billion fortune. | Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images With a recent $2.7 billion announcement, the…
June 15, 2021 Sotheby’s is selling a piece of web history, signed by its creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the web in 1989. | Sotheby’s The father of the web sees promise in NFTs. If you’re reading this article,…
June 15, 2021 Lina Khan is joining the FTC, and Big Tech should be worried Lina Khan, an expert in antitrust and a critic of Amazon’s power, is joining the Federal Trade Commission. | Graeme Jennings/Getty Images Democrats and…
June 15, 2021 Amazon’s Black employees say the company’s HR department is failing them Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos speaks during the grand opening of the Amazon Spheres, a botanical garden inside the Amazon office complex in Seattle, on…
June 11, 2021 The ***** administration forced Apple to turn over lawmakers’ data. Democrats are outraged. Device metadata from Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, was obtained by the Department of Justice. | Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty…
June 11, 2021 What you need to know about the House’s opening bid to rein in Big Tech Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos testifies before a House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing in July 2020. | Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner/Bloomberg via Getty Images The bills have…
June 11, 2021 What are you legally allowed to say at work? A group of fired Googlers could change the rules. Google workers protesting sexual harassment issues at the company in November 2018. | Peter Foley/Bloomberg via Getty Images The NLRB is expanding its complaint…
June 11, 2021 The controversy over Bill Gates becoming the largest private farmland owner in the US Bill Gates has bought a surprising amount of farmland in recent years. | Michael Gottschalk/Photothek via Getty Images People are drawing connections between Gates’s…
June 10, 2021 JBS Foods, the meat supplier hit by a ransomware attack, admits it paid $11 million in ransom The beef aisle of your grocery store might get a little less crowded. | Scotty Perry/Bloomberg via Getty Images JBS Foods, the world’s largest…
June 10, 2021 Big events are back Memphis Grizzly fans attend an NBA playoff game in Memphis, Tennessee, on May 31. | Joe Murphy/NBAE via Getty Images After an 18-month hiatus,…