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Full transcript: LinkedIn co-founder and Greylock partner Reid Hoffman on Recode Decode

His Decency Pledge is just a first step to improving online interactions.

By Recode Staff
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The Terrible 10: Those who might have made the Recode 100 if they weren’t quite so awful

Better luck next year!

By Kara Swisher

SoftBank is negotiating an investment in DoorDash that could reach $300 million

UberEats could also pose a possible conflict for the Japanese investor, though.

By Jason Del Rey and Theodore Schleifer

Coinbase is now the No. 1 iPhone app in the U.S.

Thank $18,000 Bitcoin.

By Rani Molla

This is where SoftBank's $98 billion Vision Fund has invested so far

Real estate tech firm Compass is the latest beneficiary.

By Rani Molla

The U.S. suit against AT&T;’s purchase of Time Warner likely won’t end until after May

The trial is set for March 19.

By Tony Romm

Facebook can do a lot more to protect us from revenge porn

It’s refreshing to see Facebook take action on a problem that is unintentionally spread on its platform — but it’s not enough.

By Zouhair Belkoura

Facebook’s new Messenger app for kids has Congress asking about privacy

Democratic lawmakers want the company to offer more information about the data it’s collecting, and why.

By Tony Romm

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How Bozoma Saint John plans to fix Uber’s brand problem

By Rani Molla

"Nobody is okay with this."

The head of the NBA wants his games to look more like Twitch

By Peter Kafka

Pro sports on TV looks the same way it looked 30 years ago, Adam Silver says. He thinks the internet can change that.

The investor behind startups with billion dollar exits explains how retail needs to change

By Rani Molla

Kirsten Green, founder of Forerunner Ventures, breaks down the retail landscape.

Williams-Sonoma CEO Laura Alber: ‘I do not believe Amazon is killing retailers’

By Johana Bhuiyan

"I think retailers’ bad service is killing retailers," Alber said.

The Young Turks’ Cenk Uygur wants you to know he is more famous than Anderson Cooper

Uygur rages against the cable news establishment on the latest Recode Media.

By Eric Johnson

Full transcript: The Verge transportation editor Tamara Warren talks Tesla on Too Embarrassed to Ask

Will Tesla be acquired? Will it meet its production deadlines? And who will date Elon Musk?

By Recode Staff

HQ, the hot new trivia app, is raising money in a round that could value its company at $100 million

The app is getting looks from all of Silicon Valley’s most popular VCs.

By Kurt Wagner

A battle between Apple and an app developer has caught Congress’ attention

An attempt to crack down on spammy, duplicative apps has Apple at war with ChowNow, which aids restaurants.

By Tony Romm

Inside Oracle’s cloak-and-dagger political war with Google

Oracle has lobbied aggressively — and seeded negative stories about its search foe — as the two battle in court.

By Tony Romm

Recode Daily: Google and Amazon are beefing again; Disney and 21st Century Fox are closing in on a deal

Plus, Mashable was bought by Ziff Davis at a fire-sale price, meet your new emojis of 2018, and stay tuned for the Recode 100.

By Recode Staff

Nearly 80 percent of female tech founders have experienced sexual harassment at work or know someone who has

Female founders have an idea for how to solve it, too.

By Rani Molla

Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos used to be just like you, says Y Combinator’s Daniel Gross

"Everyone starts out with very, very humble beginnings," Gross said on the latest Recode Decode.

By Eric Johnson
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Full transcript: LinkedIn co-founder and Greylock partner Reid Hoffman on Recode Decode

By Recode Staff

His Decency Pledge is just a first step to improving online interactions.

The Young Turks’ Cenk Uygur wants you to know he is more famous than Anderson Cooper

By Eric Johnson

Uygur rages against the cable news establishment on the latest Recode Media.

Full transcript: The Verge transportation editor Tamara Warren talks Tesla on Too Embarrassed to Ask

By Recode Staff

Will Tesla be acquired? Will it meet its production deadlines? And who will date Elon Musk?

Michael Barbaro is the star of The Daily, the New York Times’ breakout podcast hit

By Peter Kafka

Barbaro is No. 67 on the Recode 100.

Oath and Mozilla are in a legal battle over a Yahoo search deal

A suit and countersuit are related to a problematic agreement that former CEO Marissa Mayer crafted (badly).

By Kara Swisher

Under fire for alleged sexual harassment, Shervin Pishevar temporarily leaves Hyperloop One and his venture capital firm

The high-profile investor gave no indication of when he would return.

By Theodore Schleifer

Lyft gets an investment — from an Uber investor

Fidelity owns a piece of Lyft in addition to Uber.

By Theodore Schleifer

Ziff Davis has bought Mashable at a fire sale price and plans to lay off 50 people

Founder Pete Cashmore is staying.

By Peter Kafka

Recode Daily: Facebook launched a version of its Messenger chat app for kids who are too young for Facebook

Plus, digital ads beat traditional TV ads for the first time, Netflix will finish Season 6 of "House of Cards" and where Silicon Valley goes to find its soul.

By Recode Staff

Like your Instagram Story? Now you can save it to your profile.

The move is good news for brands and celebrities.

By Kurt Wagner

Obama had the most popular tweets of the year, not Trump

Sad!

By Kurt Wagner

Facebook reportedly wants to spend a ‘few billion dollars’ for streaming sports rights

Mark Zuckerberg already bid $600 million for a cricket deal. What’s next?

By Peter Kafka

2017 was the year digital ad spending finally beat TV

You knew it was coming.

By Peter Kafka and Rani Molla

Facebook has a team of around 100 employees building products for teens and kids

Facebook’s "youth team" is building for the internet’s youngest users.

By Kurt Wagner

Facebook built a version of Messenger specifically for children

Are you under 13? This app is for you.

By Kurt Wagner

Learning about Silicon Valley in the 1970s is ‘like watching the Big Bang,’ historian Leslie Berlin says

Berlin’s new book, "Troublemakers," tells the stories of seven men and women who made the tech industry what it is today.

By Eric Johnson

Cristiano Ronaldo had nine out of the 10 most-liked sports-related Instagrams in 2017

Beyonce took the No. 1 spot for the most-liked photo overall.

By Johana Bhuiyan

Indian ride-hail player Ola just launched its own dockless bike-sharing service

Using the same app as they would to hail a ride, Ola users can find the nearest dockless bike.

By Johana Bhuiyan

Watch: Season Four trailers for ‘Black Mirror’ will freak you out about tech

There’s no release date for the six-episode season yet, but you can watch all four trailers here.

By Rani Molla

Video will make up 75 percent of mobile traffic in five years

That’s up from just over half of all traffic now.

By Rani Molla
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