December 16, 2013 Amazon Strikers Take Their Fight to Seattle by DAVID STREITFELD By DAVID STREITFELD As Amazon builds more warehouses around the world, it is increasingly relying on human labor. Employees in Germany are trying to…
December 16, 2013 Tech Companies Press for a Better Retail Experience by NICK WINGFIELD By NICK WINGFIELD The investments in electronics retailing reflect a belief that companies should obsess over the environment in which products are presented to…
December 16, 2013 A Microsoft Star Goes to Google by NICK WINGFIELD By NICK WINGFIELD Blaise Agüera y Arcas, a respected engineer and software designer at Microsoft, has left the company to join its rival Google….
December 16, 2013 China Denies Spying on European Diplomats by CLAIRE CAIN MILLER By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER A Chinese government spokesman denied accusations by a United States computer security firm that Chinese hackers were behind computer breaches…
December 15, 2013 Disruptions: Internet’s Sad Legacy: No More Secrets by NICK BILTON By NICK BILTON Applications like Snapchat and Whisper are gaining popularity because they claim the rarest of digital commodities, privacy, but can they really…
December 15, 2013 A Missing Revenue Stream From Mobile Apps by JENNA WORTHAM By JENNA WORTHAM Small niche publishers are seeking a business model that will help them make money from their mobile apps featuring specialized content….
December 14, 2013 Samsung: Uneasy in the Lead by ERIC PFANNER and BRIAN X. CHEN By ERIC PFANNER and BRIAN X. CHEN While the Korean industrial group dominates some electronics categories, its chairman, Lee Kun-hee, warns employees against complacency….
December 14, 2013 Twitter Reverses Privacy Change in Response to User Complaints by CLAIRE CAIN MILLER By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER Twitter changed the way people can block others on the service, and then quickly reversed the change in response to…
December 14, 2013 Google Adds to Its Menagerie of Robots by JOHN MARKOFF By JOHN MARKOFF Boston Dynamics and its animal kingdom-themed machines bring significant cachet to Google’s robotic efforts. Published: December 14, 2013 at 12:00AM from…
December 14, 2013 Yahoo Mail Has Been Down for Some Users for Several Days by NICK BILTON By NICK BILTON Some aspects of Yahoo Mail were still off-line on Friday for many customers after the site suffered a major disruption earlier…