Hundreds of employees at Google and its parent, Alphabet, have launched a union, a rare step for the tech industry that also represents the biggest and most organized challenge yet to the company's executive leadership.
Jack Ma's businesses are under enormous pressure right now. But the co-founder of China's most successful tech empire and legendary billionaire entrepreneur hasn't been heard from in months.
Years before Vanessa Pappas became the public face of TikTok, she interviewed for a job hosting a car show at a buzzy video production company that helped internet personalities make money. It didn't go so well.
Tesla hit its goal of building a half-million cars in 2020, a first for the company, it reported Saturday. The full-year production and deliveries rose by more than a third from 2019 levels.
Microsoft said Thursday that the suspected Russian hackers behind a massive US government security breach also viewed some of the company's source code.
Longstanding speculation that Apple will release its own electric, self-driving car was reignited last week when Reuters, citing unnamed sources, reported that Apple plans to produce a passenger vehicle by 2024.
Vybe Together, an app that allowed people to arrange and attend parties that might violate Covid-19 safety protocols, has been taken down from Apple's App Store, and TikTok confirmed it removed the account for violating community guidelines about virus misinformation.
Amazon, Google's parent Alphabet, and UPS all hope to one day deliver large amounts of goods by drone. New US government rules clear some hurdles to making that dream a reality.
China has ordered the country's biggest online payments platform to overhaul large swaths of its operations as regulators continue their efforts to rein in some of the most powerful Chinese internet companies.
The world's biggest tech companies faced a global reckoning in 2020 as the United States, the European Union and even China took dramatic steps to curb their dominance. That pressure won't be going away in the new year.
Now that coronavirus vaccines are starting to roll out in the US and abroad, many people may be dreaming of the day when they can travel, shop and go to the movies again. But in order to do those activities, you may eventually need something in addition to the vaccine: a vaccine passport application.
Nikola Motor Company's plans to mass produce garbage trucks for Republic Services, one of the nation's largest waste management service providers, were canceled Wednesday morning, the latest in a string of bad news for the electric truck and hydrogen cell maker.
As a tech reporter, I've probably spent too much time with devices over the years, but I always tried to put in place some boundaries: no phone at the dinner table, no checking work Slacks after a certain hour and limiting screen time for my kids.
