David Streitfeld
Winner of the 2016 William Randolph Hearst Award for my coverage of Silicon Valley, in particular Amazon.
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Inside eBay’s Cockroach Cult: The Ghastly Story of a Stalking Scandal
“People are basically good” was eBay’s founding principle. But in the deranged summer of 2019, prosecutors say, a campaign to terrorize a blogger crawled out of a dark place in the corporate soul.
No Help in Sight, More Homeowners Walk Away
By June, about 5.1 million people will own a home whose value is below 75 percent of what is owed.
The Long, Unhappy History of Working From Home
As the coronavirus keeps spreading, employers are convinced remote work has a bright future. Decades of setbacks suggest otherwise.
White-Collar Companies Race to Be Last to Return to the Office
Google, Facebook, Amazon, Capital One and others are extending work-from-home policies to September and sometimes far beyond.
As Amazon Rises, So Does the Opposition
Stacy Mitchell knew that taking on a trillion-dollar company would be a lopsided fight. But the pandemic has not only made Amazon more essential. It has also made it vulnerable.
Nonprofits Built Themselves on a Dream. Their New Mission: Survival.
Upended by the coronavirus outbreak, nonprofits are laying off workers, seeking help from stretched donors and trying to stay alive.
Sales Are Colossal, Shares Are Soaring. All Amazon Is Missing Is a Profit
With gargantuan revenue, Amazon’s recent profits have been slim to nonexistent. In its quest to become the world’s bazaar, are earnings beside the point?
In Amazon’s Bookstore, No Second Chances for the Third Reich
The retailer once said it would sell “the good, the bad and the ugly.” Now it has banished objectionable volumes — and agreed to erasing the swastikas from a photo book about a Nazi takeover.
Amazon Powers Ahead With Robust Profit
The internet giant posted increases in revenue and profit after shoppers flocked to it during the holiday season.
Smorgasbords Don’t Have Bottoms
No one wakes up in the morning hoping to be as vapid as possible. But eventually you internalize the squeeze. Everyone down the chain adjusts their individual decisions to the whim of the retailer, or to their best guess at the whim of the retailer....
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For anyone interested in books, book publishing, bookselling, Amazon (of course!) or the future of the culture, this is the piece to read this weekend. Bonus: it's funny. nplusonemag.com/issue-36/the-i… via @nplusonemag
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Prime Anchor: An Amazon Warehouse Town Dreams of a Better Life
In Campbellsville, Ky., the tech giant’s influences abound. The profits, not so much.
Activists Build a Grass-Roots Alliance Against Amazon
As groups join a coalition against the internet giant, a new report underlines its troubling impact in warehouse towns.
Amazon drops additional $1 million-plus into Seattle City Council races, with ballots out this week
The corporate giant has now shelled out more on the council races than any other business or union, and all of Amazon's company money has gone to a PAC associated with the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce.
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Amazon wants a Seattle City Council more to its liking, and is spending heavily to get it. seattletimes.com/seattle-news/p… via @seattletimes
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Paging Big Brother: In Amazon’s Bookstore, Orwell Gets a Rewrite
As fake and illegitimate texts proliferate online, books are becoming a form of misinformation. The author of “1984” would not be surprised.
What Happens After Amazon’s Domination Is Complete? Its Bookstore Offers Clues
Popular novels, technical tomes and self-published books are pirated and sold on Amazon. That may actually be helping the company extend its grip on the book business.
To Take Down Big Tech, They First Need to Reinvent the Law
For decades, antitrust regulation has focused on the welfare of the consumer. Now a backlash over Big Tech’s power has regulators and scholars trying to reverse years of established doctrine.
Google Is at the Center of a Storm Brewing Over Big Tech
Support for an antitrust investigation into the company is coming from across the political spectrum. For Google, any case would be a major distraction, or worse.
How Calls for Privacy May Upend Business for Facebook and Google
Internet companies were built on a model in which people gave up their information for free services. Now, that idea is under siege.
Welcome to Zucktown. Where Everything Is Just Zucky.
In Menlo Park, Calif., Facebook is building a real community and testing the proposition: Do people love tech companies so much they will live inside them?
California Today: Peter Thiel Is Leaving Silicon Valley. Will Others?
Thursday: Backlash against Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s visit, San Francisco is sinking, and wild turkeys stir divisions in the East Bay.