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Dow index boosts its tech profile with addition of Salesforce

by Justin Ho
Aug 25, 2020
Bellwether market index also adds Honeywell and Amgen and expels Exxon and others. Move reflects tech's expanding role in the economy.
The floor of the New York Stock Exchange in March. The Dow Jones index has been updated to maintain its relevance, in one expert's view.
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Tech companies reconsider facial recognition software

by David Brancaccio , Erika Soderstrom , Rose Conlon and Alex Schroeder
Jun 11, 2020
IBM says it will no longer sell or research facial recognition software, and Amazon announced a moratorium on police use of its software.
With IBM getting out of facial recognition technology altogether and Amazon pausing the use of its software by police departments, how will Microsoft act?
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Tech companies get a win in the USMCA

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Dec 11, 2019
The treaty will extend to Canada and Mexico a provision of U.S. law that protects them from being sued for what their users' do.
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The FTC has no chief technologist as it weighs big tech investigations

by Molly Wood
Apr 2, 2019
The last person to hold the job says there are many ways the agency can get input on technology issues.
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) building in Washington, DC.
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California's governor wants to pay residents a data dividend

by Molly Wood
Feb 22, 2019
How much is your data worth, and should tech companies compensate you for it?
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Your Amazon deliveries don't just magically appear at your door

by Kai Ryssdal and Phoebe Unterman
Jul 3, 2018
Some of them come to you via Amazon Flex, an app that allows regular people to deliver your packages.
Packages are stored at the Amazon's logistics center in San Fernando de Henares, near Madrid, on the eve of 'Black Friday', on Nov. 24, 2016.
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New blow for Uber as top European Union court says it’s a taxi company

by Associated Press
Dec 20, 2017
The decision reflects a larger dilemma about how governments should treat companies that operate online.
A view of someone using the Uber app in London.
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Being Uber's new CEO is like climbing corporate Mt. Everest

by Kai Ryssdal and Molly Wood
Aug 28, 2017
The name to know today in corporate America is Dara Khosrowshahi. At the moment, he’s the CEO of the travel website Expedia. Khosrowshahi was on the Corner Office podcast in March about what it was like to lead a travel company under the cloud of the president’s travel ban last spring. But now he’s been […]
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Encryption and privacy are priorities for tech firms

by Mitchell Hartman
Sep 9, 2015
Microsoft, Apple fight in court to protect emails abroad and mobile devices.
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