JD.com’s Richard Liu Was Arrested on a Rape Allegation, Police Say The investigation of Mr. Liu, the billionaire founder of one of China’s e-commerce giants, still has a ways to go, the Minneapolis Police De...
Facebook and Twitter Have a Message for Lawmakers: We’re Trying In testimony prepared ahead of congressional hearings on Wednesday, Facebook and Twitter displayed a conciliatory approach over issues like ...
Amazon, Following Apple, Reaches $1,000,000,000,000 in Value Apple became the first public company to be worth $1 trillion. Amazon hit the same milestone a month later, but the reasons for the e-commer...
Understanding the times: Satellite Images and Shadow Analysis: How The Times Verifies Eyewitness Videos Visual investigations based on social media posts require a mix of traditional journalistic diligence and cutting-edge internet skills.
Alex Jones Said Bans Would Strengthen Him. He Was Wrong. Bans by Facebook and YouTube drastically reduced the reach of Infowars, Mr. Jones’s right-wing conspiracy site, a review of its traffic show...
Nonfiction: The Father of Personal Computing Who Was Also a Terrible Dad With “Small Fry,” Lisa Brennan-Jobs, the first child of Steve Jobs, delivers an eloquent memoir of a childhood steeped in emotional abuse.
Amazon’s Plan to Reach 500 Million Indians: Speak Their Language As the online retailer looked at India, its top new market, it realized it needed to reach beyond the relatively small, urban English-speaki...
Amazon Sets Its Sights on the $88 Billion Online Ad Market The online retailer is moving aggressively into digital advertising, emerging as a major competitor to Google and Facebook.
Fringe Figures Find Refuge in Facebook’s Private Groups Many private groups reviewed by The Times contained content and behavior that appeared to violate Facebook rules, like those against hate sp...
DealBook: Silicon Valley Doesn’t Like Trump. It Can Still Work With the Government. Tech workers are pushing back against federal contracts, particularly with the Pentagon. Here’s why that might be a mistake.
The New New World: China’s Internet Obsesses Over Arrest of JD.com Founder Richard Liu The furor over Mr. Liu’s legal troubles reflects China’s fascination with self-made tech tycoons, who have become symbols of the country’s r...
Tech Giants Now Share Details on Political Ads. What Does That Mean For You? We tried out new tools from Facebook, Google and Twitter that let you look up campaign ads. Here’s what the databases can — and cannot — do....
Advertising: Tricky Ads From a Vitamin Company That Talks Up Openness In a hype-fed industry, Ritual seemed refreshingly low-key. But it has a habit, in its marketing, of quoting from web posts it paid for.
The Week ahead: Summer Winds Down, and Big Tech Is Called Before Congress The newest jobs numbers are expected to show healthy gains, and Detroit automakers will report sales for August.
Spooky Theory on Ills of U.S. Diplomats in Cuba Doctors and scientists say microwave strikes may have caused sonic delusions and very real brain damage among embassy staff and family membe...