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.

Only one thing can allow a business to transcend the daily brute struggle for survival,” Peter Thiel wrote in his bestselling 2014 book, Zero to One. That one thing, Thiel stated outright, is “monopoly profits.”

The Federal Trade Commission is demanding that nine social media and tech companies share details on how they harness users' data and what they do with the information. Amazon.com, TikTok owner ByteDance, Discord, Facebook, Reddit, Snap, Twitter, WhatsApp (also owned by Facebook) and YouTube were sent orders by the FTC on Monday to provide the commission with details on their data collection and advertising practices. The companies have 45 days to respond to the order.

Not everyone looks forward to working from home in some idyllic location, far away from the city crowds.

Laurence Berland and Kathryn Spiers were fired in the wake of employee organizing efforts. Now, the NLRB says the terminations violated labor law.

If Mark Zuckerberg hoped the spotlight on his company's role in spreading misinformation would move away once the US election was over he must have been sorely disappointed.

Uber and Lyft have won a major victory in their battle to continue classifying drivers as contractors, not employees, following the passage of a ballot measure that exempts them from a California labor law. On Tuesday, voters in California passed Proposition 22, the most expensive ballot-measure campaign in state history, which came to symbolize a bitter struggle over the future of the gig economy.

It's the night before the election and I find myself asking - did the leaders of the most powerful tech companies in America, those who are often praised as geniuses on the cutting edge of technology, seriously not foresee what seems like a totally predictable situation?

Engineers and advocates of the lowest-ranked caste say that tech companies don't understand caste bias and haven't explicitly prohibited caste-based discrimination.

A scathing report detailing abuses of market power by four top technology companies suggests a tough road ahead of new rules and stricter enforcement for Big Tech should Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden win the White House.

The long read: How one magic word became a way of justifying Silicon Valley’s unconstrained power

A recently fired Facebook employee wrote a memo on her last day at the company detailing how the tech giant routinely ignored or did not prioritize efforts to manipulate elections and political climates around the world, according to a Monday Buzzfeed report. The 6,600-word memo was written by Sophie Zhang, a data scientist whose job while at the company was to identify fake accounts used to manipulate political outcomes.

Getaround, a car sharing start-up, started the year by laying off 150 employees and scaling back some operations after it spent too much on a rapid expansion. Two months later, with the spread of the coronavirus, business got even worse. The company laid off another 100 employees, asked those who remained to volunteer for pay cuts, obtained a government loan of $5 million to $10 million and battled bankruptcy rumors.

Joseph R. Biden Jr. has been critical of Big Tech, admonishing Facebook for mishandling misinformation and saying internet companies should lose a central legal protection. But his campaign has quietly welcomed onto its staff and policy groups people who have worked with or for Silicon Valley giants, raising concerns among the industry’s critics that the companies are seeking to co-opt a potential Biden administration.

A proposal to raise taxes on California millionaires would result in a top tax rate of nearly 54% for federal and state taxes. Democrats in the California state legislature this week proposed a tax hike on the state’s highest earners to help pay for schools and services hurt by the coronavirus pandemic. Legislators say the tax hike would raise more than $6 billion a year, and would redirect funding from the wealthy to those who have been hit hardest by the Covid-19 crisis.

Four of the biggest tech companies in the world – Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook – announced stronger-than-expected second-quarter earnings on Thursday, defying worries about Wednesday's antitrust hearings and an ongoing pandemic. The strong results from the four companies, often categorized as "Big Tech," comes a day after their CEOs testified before Congress, defending the size of their companies

Since the first IPO in the U.S around 1783, roughly 25 Black women leaders have been at the helm. From Madam C.J. Walker to Aicha Evans, these 50 Black women have successfully subverted the status quo.

Apple CEO Tim Cook was set to testify on Monday, July 27 to the House Judiciary Committee as part of an antitrust probe, but the hearing ended up getting delayed due to the memorial service for the late civil rights leader John Lewis, who passed away last week. Now, the House antitrust subcommittee has announced that the hearing will take place on Wednesday, July 29.