Most don’t think the split second headquarters is a big deal. While it might seem from news coverage and social media that Amazon’s second headquarters decision angered the public, people were much more likely to favor the decision than to have a negative opinion of it, according to a survey conducted for Recode by the [...]
Plus: Almost every electric scooter comes from this one Chinese company; an ever-growing list of year-end lists; how Pantone picked the 2019 color of the year. Racing its ride-hailing rival Uber to an IPO, Lyft confidentially filed the paperwork to go public, putting it on pace for a listing in the first quarter of next [...]
People in Trump’s West Wing are not always “running around with their hair on fire,” Swan says in this conversation with the New York Times’ Maggie Haberman. Political journalists love to talk about President Trump’s mood. But Jonathan Swan from Axios and Maggie Haberman from the New York Times — two of the best-sourced reporters [...]
That’s a lotta podcast! When you make your holiday travel plans this year, don’t forget about podcasts. They’re perfect for long car trips and plane rides, and the end of the year is a great time to catch up on the biggest and most interesting interviews you might have missed the first time around. With [...]
The game theory behind the next phase of an old fight. It looks like Lyft is going to beat Uber to the public market — and that’s not just timing. It’s game theory. As private companies, Lyft has long been the No. 2 player in the U.S. ride-hailing dogfight to Uber, the global behemoth with [...]
Plus: Internal tensions are boiling over at Facebook, which is no longer No. 1 on the “best places to work” list; working undercover at an Amazon fulfillment center; the top sounds and visions of 2018. Waymo’s self-driving car unit officially launched the first commercial driverless taxi service in a roughly 100-mile zone across four Phoenix [...]
They talk about social media’s impact on democracy, how the media has changed under President Trump and who’s running in 2020. The latest episode of Recode Decode with Kara Swisher is a live interview recorded last night in Washington, D.C.: Kara spoke to NBC/MSNBC* political journalists Chuck Todd, Andrea Mitchell and Hallie Jackson about everything [...]
The streaming media pioneer could lose about a fifth of its content hours. Following Netflix’s lead, nearly every major video company is moving into the streaming media business. And that means also moving their content off Netflix and onto their own services. Disney — along with its soon-to-be purchased Fox — is launching its streaming [...]