Apple CEO Tim Cook has openly campaigned for gay marriage, opposed “religious freedom laws,” and loudly criticized president Donald Trump’s immigration policy proposals, despite a…
DATA WARS
The connected car of the future could kill off the local auto repair shop
When Jim Dykstra became part owner of his family’s auto repair service business in 1994, mechanics diagnosed car problems by looking under the hood. Soon…
A TO Z
What is Amazon, really?
In the beginning, Amazon.com sold books. Today Amazon is a titan of e-commerce, logistics, payments, hardware, data storage, and media. It dabbles in plenty more…
WISCONN VALLEY
Manufacturing won’t bring workers to the Midwest
When Foxconn announced last month that it would build a factory in Wisconsin, the state’s governor hopefully renamed the county where it would be located—Paul…
NO THANKS
Google dropped a neo-Nazi site from its domain-registration service like a hot potato
On Sunday, GoDaddy announced it would no longer house the Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi website that promotes white supremacist and white nationalist views, giving it…
GRINDSTONE
The latest RAND survey paints a disturbing portrait of the American workplace
American jobs are grueling, according to a newly published RAND survey. For the first time in 2015, the nonprofit think tank asked its nationally representative…
COLORFUL BALLOONS
How Facebook snuck into China
Facebook’s apps are almost entirely banned in China. But the social network appears to have secretly authorized the release of one app in the country—minus…
QZ&A
Becoming a social media “influencer” is the new unpaid internship, and just as exploitative
You may have heard about Chiara Ferragni, who started a personal style blog as a 27-year-old that now generates $8 million per year. Or Johnny…
JUST-FOR-FUN RAISING
Casper raises $240 million in venture funding, launches a Kickstarter campaign
The “Humidity Fighting Duvet” looks a lot like a typical Kickstarter project. “I would definitely consider myself a Duvet nerd,” begins a three-minute video describing…
BIAS BLOCKERS
The HR process is filled with bias, and SAP is selling tech to change that
In an effort to recruit more diverse workforces, companies have hired chief diversity officers, set solid goals, and installed new policies that aim to curb…
HELP WANTED
Amazon wants to hire 50,000 people. So far it has 20,000 applicants.
On Aug. 2, Amazon set out to hire 50,000 people, with a dozen job fairs held at sites around the United States. So far it…
This coding bootcamp doesn’t try to turn you into a full-time software engineer
Many of the nearly 100 “coding bootcamps” that offer full-time, in-person instruction in the United States and Canada boast close to a 100% success at…
