Be Evil

In 2016, Mitchell Baker, the chairwoman and interim CEO of Mozilla, sat down to update her manifesto. Well, technically, it's Mozilla's manifesto, but it's Baker's handiwork. Think of it as a sort of Bill of Rights for the internet, or maybe a Ten Commandments: 10 principles about what the internet…

Susan Wojcicki Eric Gaillard/Reuters Only a few of Google's earliest employees still work at the internet giant and that no longer includes founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. In 2015, a Quora user compiled a list of all the original Googlers and where th…

Ross LaJeunesse, the former global leader of international relations at Google, joined the company in 2008, after working as an aide to California’s then governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger. LaJeunesse was the head of government affairs for Asia and the Pacific in 2010, when the company abandoned its Chinese search engine, after…

The United States has become a nation of monopolies. Nowhere are the effects of growing market concentration felt more acutely than in the tech sector. It’s become the poster child for monopoly in recent years. Based on estimates, more than 90% of internet …

The United States has become a nation of monopolies. Nowhere are the effects of growing market concentration felt more acutely than in the tech sector. It’s become the poster child for monopoly in recent years. Based on estimates, more than 90% of internet …

The United States is not the only country where journalists work in a toxic political environment, in which the leader of the nation routinely attacks and demonizes them. A recently published report from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University in the UK describes how similar…

Co-Star, the AI astrology app known for its a-little-too-real push notifications, has accused Google of anti-astrology prejudice after its removal from the Play Store. The app was available for Android users for just two weeks before reportedly being removed…

Co-Star, the "hyper-personalized" AI astrology app notorious (and beloved) for its ego-bruising push notifications, has gone supernova on Google over its sudden removal from the Play Store. Just two weeks after the app became available to Android users, it r…

Fifty-two floors below the top of Salesforce Tower, I meet Paula Goldman in a glass-paneled conference room where the words EQUALITY OFFICE are spelled out on a patchwork bunting banner, the kind of decoration you might buy for a child's birthday party. Goldman has a master's degree from Princeton and…

Source: Android Central Google has changed dramatically in the past 10 years. That's partly because technology itself has changed, partly because of management changes within the company, and partly because being more aggressive is how you make more money wh…