China is slowly catching up to the United States in the rankings of the top tech companies according to market valuation, holding nine of the Top 20 slots. Of those nine, only two appeared on the radar five years ago in the famous Mary Meeker annual report on internet trends; Tencent and Baidu.

This Monday is Amazon Prime Day, and like every other year, that means you'll have the chance to get a great deal on some dongles. But this year, unlike every other year, Prime Day means you'll also have the chance to stand in solidarity with workers protesting working conditions at Amazon fulfillment centers. On Monday, while you were shopping for Echoes, 1,800 Amazon workers went on strike in Spain, and "thousands" more are set to strike on Tuesday in Germany, according to the Washington Post.

Comcast, AT&T and DirecTV will be hard-hit, says consulting firm cg42

Marlon Peterson served 10 years in prison for his involvement in a serious crime nearly two decades ago. He’s now a social justice activist and recipient of multiple distinctions recognizing his leadership work with youth and gun control causes. He has a podcast, and is working on his first novel. Too often, Peterson says, only the first fact about him matters. In a scathing op-ed for USA Today last month...

In the first hours of Prime Day 2018, Amazon's website was going to the dogs. But it wasn't just Amazon's main sale site. The Amazon Web Services cloud was also having fits.

#FearlessGirlBristol led to a month-long trial run

If you are wondering how, to begin with, your own cleaning business, then here is how to start a cleaning business without getting confused or lost:

Tesla’s stock lost 4% of its value Monday following a rough weekend for its CEO Elon Musk. Musk, who has taken to Twitter in recent weeks to combat his critics, drew criticism this weekend after calling a diver involved in the rescue of a Thai soccer team a “pedo.” The diver, Vern Unsworth, had criticized Musk’s effort to create a small submarine to rescue the soccer team members.

Employers are bellyaching about a lack of workers to fill jobs, but they're not willing to pay more to attract them.

Vizaline says its service is not surveying, but Mississippi authorities disagree. By Cyrus Farivar.

F-35 versus A-10 fly-off designed to mislead? We take a look. By Dan Grazier.

Facebook on Wednesday drew scrutiny for allowing the conspiracy-theory website Infowars to operate a page on its platform just as the social network was trying to promote its efforts in dealing with intentionally false or misleading news.

It is the largest payout over allegations that Johnson & Johnson's talc-based products cause cancer.

Power to the people (who hate talking on phones).

The big four accounting firms have unprecedented market power, and their conflicts of interest could threaten the global economy, according to a new book.

The CEO of Billboard and The Hollywood Reporter was pushed out earlier this week after a private internal investigation raised concerns about evidence of sexual harassment and other wrongdoing, according to three sources with direct knowledge of the outcome of the internal investigation. The probe stemmed from allegations of sexual harassment, and expanded over the past few weeks after an audit was launched looking into other allegations of impropriety by John Amato.

Apple has combined its various artificial intelligence divisions into a new structure led by recent hire John Giannandrea, formerly Google’s head of search and AI. TechCrunch first reported the restructuring earlier today, and Apple confirmed the change with an update to its executive leadership page. Giannandrea will now be in charge of Apple’s machine learning division, its Siri team, and the Core ML team. Core ML is the machine learning API Apple launched last year to help native AI tasks and AI-focused apps and services from third-party developers run more efficiently on iOS devices.

Would you pay $17 per month for Netflix in 4K and HDR?

They would be mailed out and handed out at Whole Foods.

Apple acquires an average of 15 to 20 companies a year, according to CEO Tim Cook. Of that number, we only hear about a couple, as most of these acquisitions or aqcui-hires are not consumer-facing, nor disclosed. However, we have exclusively learned that Apple is planning an interesting partnership and a potential acquisition of AgileBits, maker of the popular password manager 1Password.

Should the gambling industry be required to use league-approved “official data”? Britain’s data collection experience provides a preview of the battles to come in the United States.

When Netflix announced its third-quarter earnings in mid-October, the streaming service predicted it would spend between $7 billion and $8 billion on content in 2018. Now that the year’s half over, those figures require an update: The Economist, citing data from a Goldman Sachs assessment, reports that Netflix will actually spent $12 billion to $13 billion on its films and shows during that span. According to the magazine, Netflix’s annual budget tops what every other studio and network...

Papa John's, which has had founder John Schnatter at the center of its logo and in TV ads, plans to pull his image from its marketing after reports he used a racial slur. The decision was made by top executives but details of the change are still being worked out, according to a person inside the company with knowledge of the decision who wasn't authorized to speak publicly. The person was not aware of any plans to change the pizza chain's name.

A Reason investigation reveals that the coffee giant's new cold drink lids use more plastic than the old straw/lid combo.

Amazon has already been in the crosshairs of the White House when it comes to threats of antitrust investigations, and while some say this is simply Trumpian bluster that has a slim chance of going anywhere, some new numbers out from the researchers at eMarketer could prove to be a fan to the flame…

Malaysia bills itself as “heaven for foreign companies.” Since the 1970s, the Southeast Asian nation has drawn 5,000 foreign firms from more than 40 countries to set up facilities in parts of the country specially set aside for business development. The electronics industry—the country’s largest manufacturing sector, which makes everything from semiconductors to TVs to computer keyboards—accounts for over 36 percent of the country’s exports and a quarter of its employment, according to the country’s manufacturing-development agency. United States electronics companies have invested billions in their Malaysian operations to date.

Critics say Amazon’s so-called blackmail over tax is just the latest evidence that the company has taken from Seattle – but given little back

It’s easy to overlook Donald Trump’s new tariffs amidst the caterwauling din that is our 24-hour news cycle, but Harley Davidson isn’t the only business to be impacted by the president’s tax battles. Moog Music, the company behind the iconic Moog synthesizer, may also have to take its business overseas, resulting in massive layoffs. Moog sent out an e-mail to customers this warning customers that an impending 25% import tax on Chinese circuit boards and associated components will “immediately and drastically increase the cost of building our instruments...

A U.S. defense contractor detained dozens of immigrant children in a vacant office building in Phoenix, Arizona, despite claiming that it does not operate shelters or any type of housing for children detained by federal agents. By John Bowden.

As Netflix and Amazon search for new users abroad, they are increasingly looking to India as a big market. Once crippled by poor internet infrastructure and low household income, the world's second-largest internet market has exhibited tremendous potential in the recent years. It's proving, however, to be a tough nut to crack for the American streaming leaders.

It's easy to think of mobile and its associated gadgetry as a two-way race between Apple and Google. When it comes to all things flashy that tech writers and Twitter pundits like to make words about, iOS and Android (their respective ecosystems actually) rule the roost. But that's not quite accurate — companies like AT&Timewarner or NBComcast Universal or Verizonhoo! (sorry) are huge corporations with very deep pockets that have all played significant roles in shaping our tech landscape.

Epic Games has announced a sweeping change to the Unreal Engine Marketplace, whereby creators on the store will now receive 88% of their product sales, an increase from the common 70% / 30% split of other digital stores. The Unreal Engine Marketplace is a store targeting the Unreal Engine community, and enabling game developers to purchase digital content sold by 3D modelers, digital artists, sound designers, programmers and animators, and use those assets in their own projects.

China buys one-third of all U.S. soybeans, but has recently been buying more from Russia.

The new book "Bad Blood" by John Carreyrou (and an expected movie) will show how Elizabeth Holmes duped Silicon Valley and some of the nation's top investors into believing in Theranos, a giant scam.

For years, Amazon has been laying more and more groundwork for its own logistics and delivery network — one that today only ships and delivers Amazon orders, but could someday do much more in a direct challenge to UPS, FedEx and the U.S. Postal Service. Today, it is taking another big step toward that potential reality — even if it won’t say so for now.