Over the past year, two popular forums for men who identify as involuntary celibates, or incels, have been banned by Reddit and a domain registrar in response to members’ history of toxic misogyny and celebrating violence against women. Now some of these men are trying to turn the tables. Members of the incel community—including the
Month: November 2018
NBC* is known for shows like “Saturday Night Live” and the “Today” show; GE is known for making airplane engines and refrigerators. But Beth Comstock, who was a senior executive at NBC before becoming GE’s vice chair, says it’s not just what a company makes that determines its culture. “I found I was more able
Earlier this week, Apple — which just months ago became the first company to reach a $1 trillion market cap — was worth less than Microsoft, the once-omnipotent tech giant that supposedly “lost” the consumer market to Apple under the tenure of former CEO Steve Ballmer. On the latest episode of Pivot with Kara Swisher
The United Auto Workers union said General Motors‘ decision to idle plants in the U.S. and Canada shows the new trade deal between the United States, Canada and Mexico is not strong enough to stop the flow of jobs across the Mexican border. GM is “thumbing its nose” at the trade deal, commonly referred to
The 2017 rush of investors into cryptocurrencies hooked several celebrities, too, who you’d sometimes find hawking particular digital coins on platforms like Instagram or Twitter. But what wasn’t disclosed was that several of those influencers were being paid in order to offer these seemingly full-throated endorsements. The SEC on Thursday brought its first charges against
An already head-spinning legal case between Facebook and the developer of a now-defunct app that searched for Facebook users’ bathing suit photos took another series of turns Wednesday. First, The Wall Street Journal reported on a previously redacted court filing, containing information that Facebook has fought for months to keep sealed, which alleges that Facebook
Ousted Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn failed to disclose more than $80 million in deferred pay, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing an unnamed person familiar with the company’s investigation. A Nissan probe found that Ghosn accumulated about $82 million in IOUs from Nissan over a period of nine years without any plan for how the
Mic.com, a digital publisher with a millennial focus, is in talks to sell at least part of the company to Bustle Digital Group, a publisher that has focused on millennial women. The sale talks come after Facebook canceled a video series with Mic that had provided an important source of revenue to the publisher. Mic
Two years ago, Alphabet researchers made computing history when their artificial intelligence software AlphaGo defeated a world champion at the complex board game Go. Amazon now hopes to democratize the AI technique behind that milestone—with a pint-size self-driving car. The 1/18th-scale vehicle is called DeepRacer, and it can be preordered for $249; it will later
China’s import taxes on U.S.-made cars have not hurt demand for BMW’s X line of sport utility vehicles that are made in South Carolina, a top executive said on Wednesday. The ongoing trade war between the Asian country and the United States hasn’t dampened the appetite for German luxury family cars among China’s well-heeled. “We
Time is running out for Congress to restore net neutrality protections this year. The Federal Communications Commission last year voted to jettison Obama-era rules prohibiting broadband internet providers from blocking or otherwise discriminating against lawful internet content. Earlier this year, the Senate passed legislation to restore those protections. But the Senate used an unusual legislative
The Emerson Collective, the social impact firm run by Laurene Powell, is purchasing Pop-Up Magazine Productions for an undisclosed amount. The San Francisco-based Pop-Up runs “live magazine” events across the country and also publishes the online and offline California Sunday Magazine, which is distributed in big newspapers like the Los Angeles Times and the San
A British lawmaker suggested that Facebook was made aware of suspicious Russian behavior on its platform as early as 2014 during a hearing on fake news and disinformation that took place in London on Tuesday. The MP, Damian Collins, was drawing on a cache of internal Facebook documents that he seized last week, and which
Amazon said Tuesday it had its biggest shopping day ever on Cyber Monday. Customers ordered over 180 million items over the five days starting with Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday, Amazon said, basing the record on the number of items sold. But Amazon did not release revenue generated over the holiday weekend, or any other data
The stock-trading startup Robinhood has hired a chief financial officer — who spent 20 years at Amazon — in a move that helps push Robinhood toward an initial public offering. Jason Warnick, who joined Amazon in 1999, is decamping to Robinhood, the startup told Recode on Monday. Financial technology, or fintech, companies will sometimes hire
How General Electric (GE) resolves its debt problem will be “critical” to the wider Investment Grade (IG) market, an analyst said Monday. The General Electric Company has witnessed an exodus of investment from both its equity stock and corporate debt as its future has been called into question. The U.S. behemoth has piled on the
Traffic might appear lighter at some malls this holiday season, but that’s because people are shopping on their smartphones. Mobile spending during the holidays is expected to continue to climb this year, as retailers have been investing to improve their apps, and shoppers are growing more comfortable with ringing purchases up in just a few
Corporate scandals can be costly to investors in the immediate term, but employees who blow the whistle on wrongdoing help their companies become more profitable in the long run, according to a new study. In a detailed analysis written by Kyle Welch of George Washington University and Stephen Stubben of the University of Utah, companies
On the latest episode of Recode Decode with Kara Swisher, Kara talks with Jose Antonio Vargas, the author of “Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen.” Born in the Philippines, Vargas came to the United States when he was 12 but didn’t find out that he was an undocumented immigrant until he was 16 and
The inside of Sears at the Galleria White Plains mall on Black Friday looked mostly the same as it has for the past few years. Yellow tags highlighted doorbuster sales. Rows of washers and dryers stood gleaming. Sparkling Christmas ornaments were on display. But the glaring omission at 7:00 a.m., an hour after opening, were
Lowe’s on Friday told shoppers its website was “down for maintenance” on one of the biggest holidays of the year. Tweet The retailer told shoppers on Twitter the website would be available soon. Some frustrated shoppers said they were were going to rivals like Sears or Home Depot. Tweet Tweet Lowe’s was not the only
For more than a week, Facebook’s critics have wondered if the company will face any consequences for the dirty tricks and deceptions detailed in a Nov. 14 New York Times story. And so far, at least, the answer appears to be a resounding “nope.” But on the latest episode of Pivot with Kara Swisher and
When Alexis Ohanian met Jewel Burks a few years back while filming a show called Small Empires, he was pretty clear about how formidable he thought the young entrepreneur was. “I would not bet against Jewel,” he said. Indeed. In 2016, Amazon acquired her company, which uses machine vision to identify the weird widget you’re
Expect a photo opportunity, a “mock deal,” and temporary market relief from the much-touted meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at the G-20 meeting, an economist said on Friday. “We don’t think this deal will be engineering a long-term truce between the two countries,” Bo Zhuang, chief economist and
Iconic off-road automaker Land Rover is sprucing up a model that has become one of hottest sellers in the rapidly growing luxury compact sport utility vehicle segment. When the Range Rover Evoque makes its global debut on Thursday, it will be the first time the popular and relatively affordable vehicle has been refreshed since 2015.
First it was Vine, then Yik Yak, then HQ Trivia: Mobile apps that shot up in downloads and took the digital world by storm. Almost just as suddenly, they all fell from public favor and off the top charts. TikTok, the latest app to skyrocket in popularity, recently unseated Instagram, YouTube and Snapchat as the
The difference between checking Facebook constantly and watching Twitch regularly is like the difference between abusing drugs and sleeping, says Twitch CEO Emmett Shear. Shear co-founded and runs the Amazon-owned live video service, which is best known for its interactive video game broadcasts. The company encourages “streamers” to treat gaming for an audience like a
JP Morgan has cut its outlook for oil, predicting that Brent crude prices will average $73 a barrel in 2019 — down from the investment bank’s previous forecast of $83.50 a barrel. Scott Darling, head of Asia-Pacific oil and gas at JP Morgan told CNBC that the investment bank recently revised its outlook in part
If Booster Fuels CEO Frank Mycroft has his way, gas stations will one day be obsolete. His start-up, founded in 2014, is filling up cars in parking lots, so drivers don’t have to wait in lines or make extra trips. Booster is now operating across twenty U.S. cities, and in the parking lots of at
In the past few weeks, a series of historically destructive wildfires have ravaged California — burning entire towns to the ground, leaving 84 dead, nearly a thousand missing and more than 10,000 homes destroyed — and the blazes are still ongoing. But the issue has received far less media coverage than hurricanes this year, according