Facebook now reaches 2.2 billion people on the planet. The most lucrative of those are in the US, where its user base is stagnating. To…
TANGLED WIRES
The AT&T merger isn’t the biggest threat to cable prices—that would be net neutrality
In the first major anti-trust lawsuit in decades, the Trump administration charges that consumers will see higher prices for pay-TV prices if it allows the…
WHO'S THE CENSOR?
What Facebook should fear most isn’t future regulation—it’s what’s already here
While Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg got grilled by US House and Senate members last week, president Donald Trump signed a bill that begins to whittle…
INTJ
Facebook may need group therapy to fix its engineering culture
Mark Zuckerberg would likely see little resemblance between Facebook and Royal Dutch Shell. But in one key respect, the social network and the oil giant…
THE PRICE IS RIGHT
Dropbox thinks it’s worth as much as $8 billion in IPO
File sharing and storage company Dropbox priced its shares in its initial public offering this morning, valuing the entire company at between $7 billion and…
SNOWMAGEDDON 2017
Erie, Pa. got five feet of snow. And it’s still snowing
New Yorkers may remember the Christmas season of 2010 when four feet of snow dropped on the city, it came to a standstill, and then-mayor…
DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN
In this plot of Game of Thrones, AT&T should know better
Long, long ago, when the internet was but a gleam in some futurist’s eye, people got all their phone service, and their telephones, from one…
TRAGIC LOSS
The brain of Aaron Hernandez is why no one should play football. Ever
Doctors at Boston University today released images of brain damage suffered by Aaron Hernandez, the deceased New England Patriots tight end jailed for killing his…
MORE ALLEGATIONS
London police investigated a rape claim against Uber investor Shervin Pishevar
[Editors’ note: An earlier version of this story included details based on a police report obtained by Forbes. The City of London Police later told…
THE MIND REELS
Twitter says it’s banning Russian ads that Russia says it solicited
If the controversy over Russian ads placed on social media during the US 2016 presidential campaign could get any weirder, consider the spat today between…
A MAN'S WORLD
Bill Clinton, Harvey Weinstein and how abuse allegations echo across decades
The fallout from a New York Times (paywall) investigation revealing explosive allegations of routine sexual harassment by movie producer Harvey Weinstein is still reverberating, with…
KICK OFF
NFL players, coaches protest Trump tweets saying they should be fired
As nine National Football League games kicked off Sunday at 1 pm in the US, players and coaches across the country locked arms and kneeled…
