Tech Industry

Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive officer of Amazon.

Despite their reputation as strongly liberal organizations, the political donations of tech companies like Amazon and Google go both ways.

By Alexa Lee

Google employees walk off the job to protest the company's handling of sexual misconduct claims, on November 1st, 2018, in Mountain View, California. Employees staged walkouts at offices around the world after a report last week that Google gave $90 million in a severance package to former executive Andy Rubin and covered up details of sexual misconduct allegations against him, which triggered his departure.

Google employees walk off the job to protest the company's handling of sexual misconduct claims, on November 1st, 2018, in Mountain View, California.

By Pacific Standard Staff

Nathan Myhrvold, founder and chief executive office of Intellectual Ventures and primary author of the Modernist Cuisine books, speaks onstage at The New York Times Food for Tomorrow Conference in 2015.

In the words of technology reporters.

By Morgan Baskin & Jack Denton