We’re All Hong Kongers Now
WASHINGTON — On Thursday, July 30, I fell asleep watching reruns of “Law and Order.” The next morning, I woke up a fugitive. Chinese state...
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Profits Rebound at Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway
The strong recovery in the stock market — and a surge in the value of Apple’s stock, in particular — drove a rebound in profits...
I Tried to Live Without the Tech Giants. It Was Impossible.
The chief executives of Amazon, Facebook, Google and Apple were called before a House antitrust committee this week, ostensibly to answer questions about whether they...
Big Tech Companies Report Big Profits
You won’t want to miss our next DealBook Debrief call, where we will discuss racial injustice and corporate America with special guest Nikole Hannah-Jones, The...
The Economy Is in Record Decline, but Not for the Tech Giants
A day after lawmakers grilled the chief executives of the biggest tech companies about their size and power, Amazon, Apple, Alphabet and Facebook reported surprisingly...
The Last Days of the Tech Emperors?
On Wednesday, Representative David Cicilline, Democrat of Rhode Island and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee, opened a half-virtual hearing on “Online Platforms...
‘This Is a New Phase’: Europe Shifts Tactics to Limit Tech’s Power
LONDON — European Union leaders are pursuing a new law to make it illegal for Amazon and Apple to give their own products preferential treatment...
Grilled by Lawmakers, Big Tech Turns Up the Gaslight
When Mark Zuckerberg appeared in front of Congress two years ago, the Facebook chief executive’s memorable retort to a clueless questioner was “Senator, we run...
Big Tech’s Backlash Is Just Starting
This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays. Wednesday’s five-plus-hour congressional probing of the bosses...
Lawmakers, United in Their Ire, Lash Out at Big Tech’s Leaders
WASHINGTON — The chief executives of Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook, four tech giants worth nearly $5 trillion combined, faced withering questions from Republican and...