Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey publicly responded to the controversy about actress Rose McGowan’s social media account being suddenly suspended on Thursday, taking some measure of responsibility for the outrage. “We need to be a lot more transparent in our actions in order to build trust,” Dorsey tweets. Dorsey also admits that Twitter “needs to do […]

Advertising companies are increasingly talking about discrepancies between Facebook‘s measurements and outside information, highlighting a digital industry-wide problem over advertising standards. “We get concerned with how much money we placed there and how effective our marketing dollars are,” said CEO Bill Abbott of Crown Media Family Networks, which runs the Hallmark Channel. “It’s a big […]

Microsoft employees are taking to the trees. The company has built treehouses, with embedded tech, on its Redmond campus to serve as meeting spaces and a more casual work environment. “With their workspace turned inside out and meetings taking place up in the foliage employees are figuring out how to rethink what working looks like,” […]

Though Amazon has promised steep discounts at Whole Foods stores, now that it owns the organic supermarket chain, Costco still reigns supreme in the ongoing grocery price wars, according to JPMorgan. “[Costco] offers an unquestioned value prop with the best pricing, curated assortment, strong private label offering, and treasure hunt atmosphere,” JPMorgan analyst Christopher Horvers […]

Google and the country’s biggest brick-and-mortar retailers have one main problem in common: Amazon. Now both sides are acting like they are serious about working together to do something about it. On Thursday, Target and Google announced that they are expanding what was a years-old delivery partnership from a small experiment in a handful of […]

Amazon and Google occupy a huge portion of the corporate psyche. Both have long elicited fear, admiration and inspiration as evidenced by the frequency with which both companies are cited on conference calls across industries. But Amazon has replaced Google as the corporate boogeyman. Amazon was mentioned 2,090 times this year on publicly available corporate […]

A pair of powerful black lawmakers in the U.S. Congress will visit Silicon Valley next week to push companies like Airbnb, Facebook, Twitter, Lyft and Uber to improve diversity. Beginning Monday, the two Democratic pols — Reps. Barbara Lee and G.K. Butterfield — plan to stress in meetings with those five tech giants and others […]

Netflix shares hit an all-time high Friday passing through $200 for the first time ever. Goldman Sachs reaffirmed its buy rating and raised its price target for Netflix shares to the highest on Wall Street Friday. Netflix shares are now up more than 61 percent for the year. This story is developing. Please check back […]

Users can now order food for delivery without ever leaving Facebook. The company announced on Friday that it has partnered with Delivery.com, DoorDash, ChowNow, Zuppler, EatStreet, Slice and Olo to offer users the ability to order meals without having to open each of those individual applications. Facebook also teamed up with restaurant chains like Papa […]

An £18 million ($23.9 million) mansion is going on sale this month that can only be purchased in bitcoin. The property, located near Portobello Road in the upmarket Notting Hill district of London, will only accept the digital currency as payment. The price tag equates to over 4,000 bitcoin at Friday’s price. Lev Loginov, co-founder […]