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Google childcare workers are being asked to return to the office while the company’s shuttle service is suspended.

The digital platform seems to have lost activists’ and others’ posts.

An improvement over past years, but still extremely high.

A new report compiling federal workplace injury data found that Amazon workers in the United States were severely injured more than 24,000 times in 2020.

Google contractors want the same rights as full-time staff.

The tech company has long used contractors, but some employees worry that a growing reliance on them represents a shifting, less admirable work culture.

Almost 200 Facebook employees have signed a letter asking the company to review and possibly change its approach to moderating pro-Palestinian content..

But only in Australia and Canada, at first

Tim Cook is asking employees to return three days a week

Tim Cook said Apple employees can work remotely twice a week.

An activist expressed frustration over the removal

Traumatising conversion therapy content is still "thriving" on Arabic Facebook, despite the platform promising to ban it last year.

Apple MagSafe devices can interfere with pacemakers when placed directly over the skin, or in very close proximity, says the American Heart Association.

Apple has settled a case with a 21-year-old student after she sent her iPhone to a repair facility in 2016 only to find that employees had uploaded personal explicit images and videos to her Facebook account from the phone during the repair process. The student had sent in her iPhone to Apple to get repaired. […]

Once upon a time, Verizon dictated what smartphones were allowed to do. It’s happening again.

More labor woes for the e-commerce giant

The rules are clearer now; will the enforcement follow?

The company’s foray into furniture installation has already sparked ire among some drivers, who say they've been offered no training on how to assemble furniture.

It will reevaluate his suspension on January 7th, 2023.

The controversy started with an internal email on June 1st.

If you’re pressed for time, here’s the short version:

ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing.

“Google took advantage of its vertical integration,” French regulator says.

Some Bay Area tech companies are asking workers to come back to the office for most of...

"Uber can help cover your healthcare costs," an email received by some US drivers read. Two weeks later, the company apologized to those drivers, saying it could not cover their healthcare.

The termination of the only unionized Instacart workers in the United States is part of larger layoffs at the company.

House lawmakers have introduced five new bills that would place significant limits on major tech companies, including Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon..

Federal and state bills come as e-commerce gains ground.

Apple is facing increasing pressure to tighten its App Tracking Transparency rules after it was found that third parties are using workarounds to...

Advocates and academics have been sounding alarms about Google's FLoC for years. Now, their worst nightmares are coming true.

Google and Microsoft were also swept up in the DoJ’s leak hunt

Apple, under fire for turning over the data of two lawmakers to the Trump Justice Dept., said it did so unknowingly, while Google fought a request for New York Times data because it related to a corporate client.

“Who green lit putting the Files app above Dropbox”

As the Defense Department eyed a $10 billion JEDI contract for tech giants, Mattis adviser Sally Donnelly hid financial ties to André Pienaar, whose firm has done business with Amazon.

This weekend, Hamilton will make its Puerto Rico debut. Creator Lin-Manuel Miranda will reprise the Broadway show’s namesake role during a nearly three-week run. Along with the award-winning production, Miranda also brings major fundraising, with some ticket sales benefitting his Flamboyan Foundation, which supports arts and culture on the island. Media attention is part of […]

Update: Amazon confirms.

Aukey’s Amazon page has many blank listings.

Despite its rainbow branding for Pride Month, the company's App Store is blocking queer dating and news apps around the world.

The project hasn’t moved out of a preliminary stage.

The recently announced Playdate handheld gaming system shows that indie games can be just as myopic and male-centered as the medium’s mainstream.

Sunvalleytek has incurred Amazon’s wrath.

This month, corporations are plastering their social media avatars with rainbows, sponsoring Pride parades, and declaring their unwavering commitment to the LGBTQ community. Many of these companies, however, are spending millions supporting the campaigns of anti-gay politicians at the federal and state level.

A new report finds that companies like Comcast/NBCUniversal and AT&T have donated millions to lawmakers who oppose LGBTQ+ equality.

Prime Day is one of the busiest days at Amazon warehouses, but the profits don’t make it back to the workers.

One warehouse’s “destruction zone” caught on camera.

Just a month after the hot tub situation.

‘We are concerned that Google has made it harder for rival online advertising services to compete’

Amazon says it has a process for blacklisting dangerous and racist customers from its drivers’ delivery routes, but a Motherboard investigation found it doesn’t always do so.

Big lobbying from big tech

Facing legal actions, Apple argues on the basis of privacy, security.