Two top executives at Microsoft told the company's billionaire founder Bill Gates to stop emailing female employees "more than a decade ago," according to The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed sources. In 2008, the company became aware Gates sent "inappropriate" messages to a female employee a year earlier, Microsoft spokesman Frank Shaw told The Journal.

Walgreens thought “the technology worked as we were told.”

U.S. stock indexes rose on Monday as growth and financial stocks gained, shrugging off inflation worries in the run up to third-quarter earnings reports from later this week. Mega-caps Apple Inc (AAPL.O), Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) and Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) rose between 0.6% and 1%, with nine of the 11 major S&P 500 sector indexes trading higher.

Selling an idea in Silicon Valley takes not only a grand vision but also swagger and bluster, says Margaret O'Mara, a historian of the tech industry. "Being able to tell a good story is part of being a successful founder, being able to persuade investors to put money into your company," she said.

If you need convincing that Elizabeth Holmes is a person with feelings, and not a villain out for blood, just look through her text messages. “You are breeze in desert for me,” she sent Ramesh Balwani, her business partner and boyfriend, in 2015. “My water. And ocean.” Even when Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou was investigating her medical-testing company, Theranos, Holmes still had love on her mind. “Was thinking about you this morning,” she texted Balwani that June. Balwani reminded her to stay focused: Theranos was under attack.

Technology companies that led the charge into remote work as the pandemic unfurled are confronting a new challenge as the crisis winds down: how, when and even whether they should bring long-isolated employees back to offices that have been designed for teamwork.

After launching it in Go stores and then bringing it to larger Fresh supermarkets, Amazon's cashierless "Just Walk Out" tech will soon arrive in two Whole Foods locations. The service, which lets you pick up goods from shelves and (yep) just walk out, is coming to new stores in Washington DC and Sherman Oaks, California next year, the company announced.

Lina Khan has some of the biggest companies in the world shaking in their boots. The 32-year-old antitrust scholar and law professor in June became the youngest person in history and the most progressive in more than a decade to be appointed as chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

In 1965, Gordon Moore published a short informal paper, Cramming more components onto integrated circuits. In it, he noted that in three years, the optimal cost per component on a chip had dropped by a factor of 10, while the optimal number had increased by the same factor, from 10 to 100. Based on not much more but these few data points and his knowledge of silicon chip development – he was head of R&D at Fairchild Semiconductors, the company that was to seed Silicon Valley – he said that for the next decade...

Building for the majority group identified in summary statistics is exactly the trap that data-driven decision making can fall into.

Major corporations really want you to know how much they care about small businesses — as long as those small businesses don’t compete with them or cause them too much trouble.

Jeff Tangney launched his first health-tech start-up, Epocrates, in the middle of the dot-com bubble. While the company survived the crash and eventually went public, the endgame was a disappointing acquisition for less than $300 million.

The India that Silicon Valley once so loved has long given way to a different one.

Facing regulatory and political pressure, Facebook and Alphabet Inc’s Google in recent years committed a combined $600 million to support news outlets globally - many of them local or regional enterprises foundering in a digital age.

An email has been going around the internet as a part of a release of documents related to Apple’s App Store-based suit brought by Epic Games. I love this email for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is that you can extrapolate from it the very reasons Apple has remained such a vital force in the industry for the past decade.

Amazon is in the sights of American justice. The Washington prosecutor has just launched proceedings against Jeff Bezos’ firm for abuse of a dominant position. The e-commerce giant is accused of preventing competition with unfair practices and of imposing excessively high commissions on sellers of its marketplace. Amazon quickly stepped up to defend itself.

A federal appeals court on Tuesday issued a stunning ruling: It said a decades-old legal shield preventing platforms from lawsuits should not apply to Snapchat in a case involving a fatal car crash.

Do you recognize any of these faces? Imagine, you are in this meetup, party, event, and you find yourself face to face with them… Did it happen to me, no?! And honestly, it’s unlikely to happen to you either. These guys are unreachable these days.

Spoiler: We’re looking at another year of internet services dominating many aspects of our lives.

After almost a year of limiting our contact with the people in our lives and humanity in general, it’s hard to imagine a future where we freely move about our cities and towns going to meetings, errands, and social events. And it may be even harder to envision doing so in driverless taxis that look sort of like giant toasters on wheels. But go ahead and fire up your imagination—and your hope for a near future filled with socialization instead of social distancing—because Amazon is doing just that.