Brief - The Hustle | Big Tech (10)

India’s potential is irresistible for tech’s bigwigs

Belle Long
Updated 6/5/20
Big business puts its money where its mouth is

Michael Waters
Updated 6/5/20
Rents in San Francisco are a-tumblin’

Michael Waters
Updated 6/3/20
For better or worse, social media makes it impossible to look away

Nick DeSantis
Updated 6/2/20
TikTok’s new rival makes for a great side hustle

Michael Waters
Updated 5/29/20
Here’s what to know about Trump’s executive order on social media

Nick DeSantis
Updated 5/29/20
The pandemic heats up the ecommerce race to take on Amazon

Nick DeSantis
Updated 5/25/20
Owning Elon Musk’s old phone number is a real headache

Michael Waters
Updated 5/25/20
The contactless takeover: No-touch tech will be key to reopening businesses

Nick DeSantis
Updated 5/14/20
The company keeping your YouTube streams from crashing

Michael Waters
Updated 5/1/20
3 pandemic trends to watch as the digging-out phase begins

Nick DeSantis
Updated 4/28/20
5 things to know about the Apple-Google collab on contact tracing

Nick DeSantis
Updated 4/13/20
The third-party apps Uber and Lyft are trying to kill

Singdhi Sokpo
Updated 7/27/25
Would you pay to get your Instagram account back?

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 6/17/25
Is it finally time for smart glasses?

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 6/16/25
What if your TV knew you were sad?

Sam Barsanti
Updated 4/17/25
Can VR make you care about nature?

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 3/11/25
Alphabet’s innovation lab will solve humanity’s biggest problems, if others help foot the bill

Ben Berkley
Updated 1/25/24
Big Tech power rankings: Where the 5 giants stand to start 2024

Ben Berkley
Updated 1/4/24
The government can read your push notifications

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 12/8/23
Enshittification just keeps happening

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 7/13/23
After years of building pricey playgrounds, Big Tech recalibrates

Jacob Cohen
Updated 6/24/23
TikTok’s new plan to avoid getting banned in the US

Mark Dent
Updated 4/11/23
Why are there so many tech layoffs?

Mark Dent
Updated 4/11/23
Is eBay’s brief renaissance over?

Mark Dent
Updated 4/11/23
Can Netflix be a lifestyle brand?

Samir Javer
Updated 2/7/23
All rise: Emoji have entered the court

Sara Friedman
Updated 2/2/23
What the past year of tech lobbying looked like

Jacob Cohen
Updated 1/26/23
Meta, Microsoft team up on map nonprofit

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 12/16/22
Apple’s big changes, courtesy of the EU

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 12/15/22
Musk says he’s going ‘to war’ with Apple

Jacob Cohen
Updated 12/2/22
TikTok’s swooping in to grab laid-off talent

Jacob Cohen
Updated 11/17/22
Amazon set for largest layoffs in company history

Jacob Cohen
Updated 11/15/22
The big bet Big Tech got wrong

Jacob Cohen
Updated 11/10/22
Slowing cloud spend has investors spooked

Rob Litterst
Updated 10/31/22
What to know about the Taiwan chip situation

Jacob Cohen
Updated 10/25/22
Mastercard and Visa are making moves to defend their payments duopoly

Trung T. Phan
Updated 10/21/22
Everyone wants to be TikTok, and TikTok wants to be everyone

Jacob Cohen
Updated 10/13/22
Is Zuck too early to the metaverse?

Rob Litterst
Updated 10/12/22
What the heck is an anti-perk?

Rob Litterst
Updated 9/28/22
Clearview offers its controversial tech to lawyers

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 9/20/22
The next mafia TV show is about… PayPal?

Jacob Cohen
Updated 8/31/22
What’s up with Twitter’s whistleblower?

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 8/24/22
Why Big Tech wants to be in your car so badly

Jacob Cohen
Updated 6/16/22
Internet Explorer is done exploring

Rob Litterst
Updated 6/16/22
Is the FAANG era over?

Rob Litterst
Updated 5/2/22
The trouble with TurboTax

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 4/19/22
Digits: Spotify in years, kosher food, and goo-goo gaga

Jacob Cohen
Updated 4/18/22
Could WhatsApp be the next social media giant?

Rob Litterst
Updated 4/18/22
Why do companies do stock splits?

Rob Litterst
Updated 4/13/22
The West Coast looks east for hiring

Jacob Cohen
Updated 3/2/22
Why Big Tech is cooperating on smart homes

Trung T. Phan
Updated 2/22/22
Matterport’s CEO on the future of digital twins and the metaverse

Trung T. Phan
Updated 2/10/22
Can Google Cloud compete with Amazon?

Trung T. Phan
Updated 2/7/22
High-growth tech stocks are tumbling. Why?

Trung T. Phan
Updated 1/25/22
The App Store is almost 14 years old. It’s big

Jacob Cohen
Updated 1/20/22
Terms and conditions suck. The TLDR Act might help

Rob Litterst
Updated 1/17/22
4-day workweeks are the new trend taking over tech.

Rob Litterst
Updated 1/11/22
Even in the face of antitrust scrutiny, Big Tech is on pace for sales of $1.4T in 2021

Trung T. Phan
Updated 12/29/21
Everyone is doing the metaverse

Trung T. Phan
Updated 11/10/21
Here’s why Big Tech is slowing down

Trung T. Phan
Updated 11/1/21
Product Roundup: Summarizing releases from Apple, Google, and Samsung

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 10/22/21
The world depends on WhatsApp

Trung T. Phan
Updated 10/7/21
Google Search is growing up, and its future is all about context

Rob Litterst
Updated 10/1/21
Canva’s recent round valued the design startup at $40B. Here’s how they got there.

Rob Litterst
Updated 9/17/21
The Apple vs. Epic ruling, explained

Trung T. Phan
Updated 9/13/21
China’s huge crackdown on tech, explained

Trung T. Phan
Updated 8/31/21
Can Cisco beat Amazon’s cloud business?

Trung T. Phan
Updated 8/10/21
President Biden takes his shot at Big Business

Trung T. Phan
Updated 7/12/21
What would a Big Tech breakup look like?

Trung T. Phan
Updated 7/8/21
What’s the lowdown on gaming up high (in the cloud)?

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 7/7/21
Microsoft’s Windows 11 update is good for competition. But it’s still trying to kill Slack.

Trung T. Phan
Updated 6/28/21
Facebook is quietly taking over VR

Trung T. Phan
Updated 6/18/21
Meet cybersecurity’s nightmare fuel: Quantum hacking

Kolby Hatch
Updated 6/15/21
Here are 5 ways the US government is taking on Big Tech

Trung T. Phan
Updated 6/14/21
One way to see the future? Track corporate patents

Trung T. Phan
Updated 6/10/21
G-7 tax deal seeks to end to Big Tech tax havens

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 6/9/21
Google is writing up a new playbook for Google Docs

Jacob Cohen
Updated 5/20/21
Apple and Microsoft are beefing (again)

Trung T. Phan
Updated 5/17/21
Amazon and Apple’s meshy plan to connect every device

Kolby Hatch
Updated 5/13/21
Facebook wants you to read before you share

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 5/12/21
Roommates, PayPal fraud, and the unconventional story behind Palantir

Jacob Cohen
Updated 5/12/21
Digits: Steel prices, iPhone apps, oil pipelines, SNL ads, and more

Jacob Cohen
Updated 5/10/21
Here is Apple’s M&A strategy

Trung T. Phan
Updated 5/5/21
AOL and Yahoo are still around. And they just got sold for $5B+.

Trung T. Phan
Updated 5/4/21
Big Tech is only getting bigger

Trung T. Phan
Updated 5/3/21
Apple is dropping $1B+ for a building in North Carolina

Trung T. Phan
Updated 4/27/21
Facebook wants to be all up in your ear

Trung T. Phan
Updated 4/21/21
The largest office park in the US has a wild horse problem

Kolby Hatch
Updated 4/15/21
Health care is the latest Big Tech battleground

Jacob Cohen
Updated 4/15/21
Microsoft drops $16B to acquire Nuance in its biggest deal since LinkedIn

Trung T. Phan
Updated 4/13/21
Google vs. Oracle, explained

Trung T. Phan
Updated 4/8/21
The White House confirmed its FTC appointee, and she’s coming for Big Tech

Jacob Cohen
Updated 3/24/21
Facebook and Google are rolling out new products

Trung T. Phan
Updated 3/22/21
Big Tech loves using Wikipedia. Now, the free site is planning an enterprise product.

Jacob Cohen
Updated 3/18/21
After a pandemic boom, cloud companies are now collectively worth $2T

Trung T. Phan
Updated 3/16/21
Tencent’s investment gain in 2020 was comically high: +$120B

Trung T. Phan
Updated 3/11/21
Microsoft gets Mesh-y with the future of mixed reality

Kolby Hatch
Updated 3/4/21
Meet #Hugops, the hashtag destined to trend when your favorite website goes down

Kolby Hatch
Updated 3/3/21
Apple launches its inaugural Black Entrepreneur Camp

The Hustle
Updated 2/25/21
Big Tech vs. Australia, explained

Trung T. Phan
Updated 2/19/21
There’s a Big Tech battle going down in North Dakota

Trung T. Phan
Updated 2/18/21
Apple has a plan to disrupt the $10T auto industry… that no one knows much about

Jacob Cohen
Updated 2/12/21
Amazon Web Services vs. Google Cloud

Trung T. Phan
Updated 2/5/21
Databricks raises $1B (at a $28B valuation!) to build ‘data lakehouses’

Jacob Cohen
Updated 2/3/21
Intel has fallen behind in the semiconductors war. Can a new CEO turn it around?

Trung T. Phan
Updated 1/25/21
The FTC’s punishment of a facial recognition app could be the future of AI regulation

Trung T. Phan
Updated 1/22/21
How will the Biden administration deal with tech?

Trung T. Phan
Updated 1/21/21
What does a Biden win mean for tech?

Trung T. Phan
Updated 1/20/21
The security startup that sold 1m 2FA dongles to Google

Trung T. Phan
Updated 1/7/21
One way to see the future? Track corporate patents

Trung T. Phan
Updated 12/23/20
Europe is dropping the hammer on Big Tech (again)

Trung T. Phan
Updated 12/17/20

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