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You’d Be Surprised How Few Companies Are Behind Half the World’s CO2 Emissions

Fortunately, emissions data is increasingly being used to hold these companies accountable.

Climate Change Ellyn Lapointe Jan 21

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AI Gets the Blame for 55,000 Layoffs in 2025

In 2025, if you wanted to do layoffs, AI was a great option for pinning the blame.

Artificial Intelligence AJ Dellinger Dec 23

Following Record Year for Mergers, the FTC Wants to Know How You’d Fix Antitrust

The agencies said they want to ensure the guidelines are modern enough to tackle an economy transformed by new technologies and rampant consolidation.

Tech News Mack DeGeurin Jan 18

Can I Stop Big Data Companies From Getting My Personal Information?

I am going to answer this one right here in the intro: no, you can’t. In 2020, it is hard to just to go to the grocery store without inadvertently surrendering 40 or 50 highly personal data-points on the walk over. Go ahead, delete your Facebook—it makes no difference. It wouldn’t make a difference if…

Tech News Daniel Kolitz Nov 9

The Real Deal About Corporations’ Climate Plans

The planet is in full-on meltdown, but the brands would like you to know it’s OK. They will save us. This week—officially Climate Week—has seen a flurry of pledges, plans, commitments, vows, words, promises, sacred oaths, and blood pacts from companies including Walmart, Amazon, and Microsoft on how they will reduce their ponderous footprints on…

Earther Brian Kahn Sep 24

The Decade Fandom Went Corporate

In the last twenty years, fandom and mass culture have basically merged. Fans and fandom spent the 2000s fighting for legitimacy and proving their combined worth. And corporations? Well, they spent the 2010s learning how to co-opt fandom to silence critics, manipulate press, and make even more money. For decades and decades, fandom wasn’t something…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Dec 19

Apple Opts to Contribute to the Hollywood Hellscape by Launching Its Own Studio: Report

Apple is reportedly making a Band of Brothers spin-off and launching its own in-house studio to do it. The Hollywood Reporter says the studio, which does not yet have a name, will be run by Apple’s new Worldwide Video heads, Zack Van Amburg and Jamie Erlicht. Van Amburg and Erlicht previously ran Sony Pictures Television,…

Tech News Alex Cranz Oct 11

The Age of Media Corporation Mega-Mergers Is Robbing Us of Bolder, Fresher Storytelling

Disney isn’t just the first studio to have five pictures cross a billion dollars at the box office in a single year and it isn’t just the biggest film studio right now. It’s the biggest film studio in the history of Hollywood. While investors are likely very pleased with this fact, the company’s series of…

io9 Alex Cranz Aug 19

Corporations Are Lobbying to Keep Making Robocalls

The robocall problem is as bad as it has ever been, but if big corporations have their way, it just might get worse. The Washington Post reported this week that top businesses from the financial services and retail industry, among others, are lobbying the Trump administration to make it easier to send calls and texts…

Tech News AJ Dellinger Jul 15

Scott Walker Finally Gave Foxconn Enough Handouts to Get the Company’s US Headquarters in Wisconsin

Foxconn, the giant Taiwanese electronics manufacturer that works with everyone from Apple to Amazon, now has a North American headquarters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin after purchasing a large office building in the city, according to the Associated Press. The company is taking over a seven-story building previously owned by Northwestern Mutual, which is located about 30…

Tech News AJ Dellinger Jun 16

IBM Is Clueless About AI Risks

Earlier this week, David Kenny, IBM Senior Vice President for Watson and Cloud, told the US Congress that Americans have nothing to fear from artificial intelligence, and that the prospects of technological unemployment and the rise of an “AI overlord” are pernicious myths. The remarks were as self-serving as they were reckless, revealing the startling…

Artificial Intelligence George Dvorsky Jun 30

AT&T Reaches $80 Billion Deal to Purchase Time Warner

AT&T will purchase Time Warner for over $80 billion, the Wall Street Journal reports Saturday afternoon. “According to people familiar with the plans,” the two companies will likely announce this as soon as Saturday night. AT&T will reportedly pay between $105 and $110 a share for Time Warner. According to another anonymous source, the deal is…

Tech News Eve Peyser Oct 22

How The Sugar Industry Continues To Subvert Public Health Policies

A recent analysis of nearly 320 internal sugar industry documents from 1959 to 1971 shows how the industry sought to influence the setting of U.S. research priorities during that time. Disturbingly, it’s a strategy that continues to this very day. Forty or 50 years ago, at least in the United States, tooth decay was seen…

io9 Michael F. Jacobson — PLOS Blogs Mar 11

Tim Wu’s Vision for the Future Comes Into Focus

Tim Wu is a busy man. When he’s not teaching law at Columbia or writing forThe New Yorker, he’s testifying before Congress about the FCC proposed net neutrality. And as of last month, Wu is running for lieutenant governor of New York State. Busy might not be the right term, actually. Tim Wu is brimming…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Jul 9

What the biggest companies are from each state in the US

The most popular brands in America are not always the largest companies making the most revenue. Brands that you know, stores that you go to and places that you associate with some states get replaced by faceless monoliths who basically repurpose oil, energy, technology, other people’s money, etc. into more money. The Washington Post points…

Sploid Casey Chan Jun 23

This Chipotle ad may be beautiful but some still hate Chipotle

“The new Chipotle ad is amazing,” says Gawker’s Neetzan Zimmerman. When asked about the ad, Wired writer, self-professed burrito connoisseur and dedicated Chipotle hater Mat Honan replied: “I’m going straight to Godwin here, because you know who else had good ads?” He echoes the thoughts of billions who hate Chipotle, Coldplay and other things that…

Sploid Jesus Diaz Sep 13

American companies’ shameless 9/11 “tributes” are disgusting

Like every year, some shameless companies exploit the 9/11 anniversary with their alleged heartfelt tributes. It’s embarrassingly disgusting, from corporations to small business like this equine spa that shaved the towers on a horse’s butt. http://gawker.com/commemorating-9-11-on-a-horses-butt-1293717154 Or this terrible Tumbledown Trails golf course coupon: Have more? Post them in the comments. http://gawker.com/never-forget-pic-twitter-com-74br2rbl3a-at-t-att-s-1293984529

Sploid Jesus Diaz Sep 11

Tables of Power: Inside the Inner Sanctums of Fortune 500 Companies

Dutch photographer Jacqueline Hassink has been inside some of the most important and cloistered rooms in the world. But these aren’t science labs or political offices—they’re the opulent boardrooms of Europe’s largest companies, which Hassink photographed as part of a project called The Table of Power. During the boom of the mid-1990s, Hassink set out…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Jul 31

Check Out These Totally Not Shocking Maps of Corporate Tax Avoidance

Ever heard of Goldman Sachs Structured Products Limited? How about GS Holdings L.L.C. II.? No? Both are nodes on a web of more than 4,000 holding companies, woven by the Goldman Sachs Group to evade taxes on its—let’s see here—$8.61 billion in profits for Q2. It’s an incredibly complex operation, and thanks to this interactive…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Jul 17

What the Most Famous Brands Are from Each State

When you close your eyes and think of California, what famous brand comes to mind? Is it Apple? Facebook? Google? Or some movie studio? What about Texas? New York? Florida? These are the most famous brands of each state. The Corporate States of America, if you will. It’s very embarrassing to admit that I have…

Tech News Casey Chan Jun 25

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You’d Be Surprised How Few Companies Are Behind Half the World’s CO2 Emissions

AI Gets the Blame for 55,000 Layoffs in 2025

Following Record Year for Mergers, the FTC Wants to Know How You’d Fix Antitrust

Can I Stop Big Data Companies From Getting My Personal Information?

The Real Deal About Corporations’ Climate Plans

The Decade Fandom Went Corporate

Apple Opts to Contribute to the Hollywood Hellscape by Launching Its Own Studio: Report

The Age of Media Corporation Mega-Mergers Is Robbing Us of Bolder, Fresher Storytelling

Corporations Are Lobbying to Keep Making Robocalls

Scott Walker Finally Gave Foxconn Enough Handouts to Get the Company’s US Headquarters in Wisconsin

IBM Is Clueless About AI Risks

AT&T Reaches $80 Billion Deal to Purchase Time Warner

How The Sugar Industry Continues To Subvert Public Health Policies

Tim Wu’s Vision for the Future Comes Into Focus

What the biggest companies are from each state in the US

This Chipotle ad may be beautiful but some still hate Chipotle

American companies’ shameless 9/11 “tributes” are disgusting

Tables of Power: Inside the Inner Sanctums of Fortune 500 Companies

Check Out These Totally Not Shocking Maps of Corporate Tax Avoidance

What the Most Famous Brands Are from Each State

Amazon Is Sticking With ‘Rings of Power’ to the End

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