Recode Daily: WeWork has filed confidentially for an IPO

Plus: Spotify reached a milestone of 100 million paying subscribers and Facebook is sharing its data with more than 60 international academics. The We Company, better known as WeWork, has filed confidentially for an IPO. The coworking giant initially filed four months ago, but today revealed its plans publicly. It will be the latest of several major...

Apr 2019

The once-hot robotics startup Anki is shutting down after raising more than $200 million

It’s a hard, hard fall. Anki, the robotics company that has raised over $200 million in venture capital, is laying off its entire staff and the startup is shuttering, Recode has learned. In a teary all-hands meeting on Monday morning, CEO Boris Sofman told his staff they would be terminated on Wednesday and that close to 200 employees would be paid...

Apr 2019

Apple is under scrutiny for squashing competitors on the App Store — again

Apple built its own screen-time management app. Then things got weird on the App Store. Apple reportedly isn’t all that enthused about apps that help users cut down on screen time — at least when they’re made by its competitors. The Cupertino, California-based company is under scrutiny yet again over allegations of anticompetitive practices. This...

Apr 2019

Recode Daily: Facebook can’t afford to miss the next big thing.

Plus: Apple restricts screen-time monitoring apps, some Uber drivers don’t know how much they make, and another mass shooting follows an internet playbook. After “nearly missing” the mobile revolution, Facebook saved itself in 2011 by making a company-wide pivot away from desktop and toward mobile use of its products. Now, as the “social network on...

Apr 2019

Recode Decode at TED: Good Food Institute founder Bruce Friedrich explains why finding alternatives to meat is so important

And the big meat companies are on board: “They wanna produce protein, and if they can do it more efficiently and make more money doing it, they’re happy to go in that direction.” On the latest episode of Recode Decode with Kara Swisher, Kara passed the mic to her executive producer Erica Anderson, who recently attended the 2019 TED Conference in Vancouver,...

Apr 2019

Recode Decode at TED: Astrophysicist Erika Hamden says we understand only 4 percent of the universe

“If you want to discover a new thing about the universe, you have to look at the universe in a new way ... [and] in order to do that, you need to invent something.” On the latest episode of Recode Decode with Kara Swisher, Kara passed the mic to her executive producer Erica Anderson, who recently attended the 2019 TED Conference in Vancouver, Canada....

Apr 2019

Recode Decode at TED: Space environmentalist Moriba Jah wants to know how much “junk” is in Earth’s orbit

Plus: Why space will be a “trillion-dollar business.” On the latest episode of Recode Decode with Kara Swisher, Kara passed the mic to her executive producer Erica Anderson, who recently attended the 2019 TED Conference in Vancouver, Canada. On the new podcast, you’ll hear four interviews with TED Fellows, up-and-coming innovators in science and technology...

Apr 2019

Recode Decode at TED: Biologist Danielle N. Lee wants more “nerdy black and brown kids” in STEM

Also: What Lauren Hill can teach us about sexual conflict. On the latest episode of Recode Decode with Kara Swisher, Kara passed the mic to her executive producer Erica Anderson, who recently attended the 2019 TED Conference in Vancouver, Canada. On the new podcast, you’ll hear four interviews with TED Fellows, up-and-coming innovators in science and...

Apr 2019

David Haskell has one of the hardest jobs in media: replacing a beloved magazine editor

Haskell took up the reins of New York Magazine this year after its 15-year editor Adam Moss stepped away. On the latest episode of Recode Media with Peter Kafka, Peter was joined in studio by David Haskell, the recently appointed editor-in-chief of New York Magazine. Haskell minced no words about how intimidating it is to replace Adam Moss, his well-liked...

Apr 2019

Amazon’s one-day shipping Prime offer is an attempt to suck you in for life

Amazon is sending a warning shot to competitors. Amazon has set out to cut its two-day free shipping offer to one. It’s a warning shot to competitors — and yet another example of the edge it has in setting the bar in e-commerce. In a Thursday call discussing its first-quarter earnings, the Seattle-based company said it is in the process of overhauling...

Apr 2019