Uber, After Buying Postmates, Lays Off More Than 180 Employees
SAN FRANCISCO — Uber on Thursday laid off roughly 185 people from its Postmates division, or about 15 percent of Postmates’ total work force, said three people with knowledge of …
Help With Vaccination Push Comes From Unexpected Businesses
Amazon wrote to President Biden on Thursday offering to assist with communication and technology. Microsoft is opening up its largely empty office campus as a vaccination center as part of …
Can an Executive in Kansas Save Movie Theaters?
Most of the time, the 116-year-old movie theater business is rather humdrum. Tickets get sold. Images get projected onto screens, sometimes in 3-D. Every now and then, change-phobic cinema operators …
Intelligence Analysts Use U.S. Smartphone Location Data Without Warrants, Memo Says
WASHINGTON — A military arm of the intelligence community buys commercially available databases containing location data from smartphone apps and searches it for Americans’ past movements without a warrant, according …
Facebook Invokes Its ‘Supreme Court’
This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays. Facebook’s new “Supreme Court” is taking on its biggest case: Donald Trump. …
Director of Amazon’s ‘Tandav’ Cuts Scenes After Pressure From India’s Hindu Nationalists
ARPORA, India — The director of a big-budget Amazon web series has bowed to pressure from Hindu nationalists and cut several scenes that they had deemed offensive, demonstrating the sway …
An Australia With No Google? The Bitter Fight Behind a Drastic Threat
SYDNEY, Australia — In a major escalation, Google threatened on Friday to make its search engine unavailable in Australia if the government approved legislation that would force tech companies to …
Google Shuts Loon Helium Balloon Project
OAKLAND, Calif. — Google’s parent company Alphabet is shutting down Loon, a high-profile subsidiary spun out from its research labs that used high-altitude helium balloons to deliver cellular connectivity from …
Google Shuts Loon Hot-Air Balloon Project
OAKLAND, Calif. — Google’s parent company Alphabet is shutting down Loon, a high-profile subsidiary spun out from its research labs that used hot-air balloons to deliver cellular connectivity from the …
What Internet Censorship Looks Like
This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays. We’ve seen the internet magnify the best and the worst of ourselves. …