Looking forward to my next chapter in Los Angeles. More to come.

Thanks to all of you who helped me in my reporting career, especially my former colleagues @business.

I’m so grateful to @puiwingtam, @jimkerstetter, @ellenjpollock1 and the rest of the tech team and business desk. They’re world-class journalists and excellent people. Simply the best. I’ll never forget how fortunate I was to work alongside them.

In personal news, I left The New York Times last week. It was a difficult decision because I had one of the best jobs in the business. Working there was a dream come true, but now, it’s time to chase other dreams outside of journalism.

When Google quietly changed an ad policy in 2023, major charities noticed an influx of competing ads trying to siphon their traffic from the search engine, and raising their ad costs on crucial fundraising days.

RT @newmarkjschool: Tomorrow's the big day — commencement! 🎓. We can't wait to celebrate the Class of 2024 at the Times Center. The ceremon….

RT @noamscheiber: Fascinating scoop from @nicoagrant about how Google lawyers worried that a cloud computing contract w/the Israeli governm….

The story has details on how Google expected more revenue from Israel's military than the rest of its central govt, the company's negotiating approach and its worries about other aspects of the deal.

Years later, Nimbus still causes rancor in Google's workforce, leading to employee protests this year and the company's decision to fire 50 workers. In October, the company forbid staff from posting signs and posters with unauthorized messages around the office.

The 2021 documents show that while Google has defended Nimbus from activist employees concerned it thrust the company into the long conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, it had similar concerns months before the deal.

Internal Google documents shed new light on how the company worried that signing a cloud deal with the Israeli govt/military, Project Nimbus, could connect it to human rights violations in the West Bank, and how it considered withholding AI from the IDF.

YouTube once removed 2020 misinformation, fearing real-world harm. Now it’s amplifying and profiting from 2024 falsehoods.

Google must open Android to other app stores and billing options, a federal judge ruled in the Google-Epic case. Google said once again that it would appeal to a higher court.

Google rested its case in its second antitrust trial with the Justice Dept. Here’s how it defended itself against claims it rigged the ad-tech market to build a monopoly.

RT @RMac18: IT'S.CHARACTER .LIMIT.RELEASE .DAY. LETSGOOOOOOOooo.

congrats to @kateconger and @RMac18 for dropping their magnum opus. pick up a copy!.

“This is a watershed moment,” @jeremys, Yelp’s co-founder and chief executive, said in an interview. “This is the time to have the conversation, this is the time to correct past wrongs.”.

New: For more than a decade, Yelp complained that Google tilted the search market in its favor. After Google's landmark antitrust loss, it finally decided to sue.

Google is hoping AI features will help its four new phones — including the Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro and the double-wide Pixel 9 Fold — finally overcome consumer apathy to its smartphone ambitions.