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MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images;Xinhua/Liu Jie via Getty Images;Insider For nearly a year, internet companies have been bracing for Hurricane Apple. The imminent update to the iPhones software (technically, iOS 14.5) will require smartphone apps to get permission from users before tracking them and collecting data — a change that could devastate the highly targeted advertising business that social media companies rely on.  Maybe were just in a calm-before-t...

This week: Goodbye Bezos, Hello Armstrong — the billionaire life cycle Steven Ferdman/Getty; Skye Gould/Business Insider On Thursday, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos penned his final letter as CEO of the retail giant he launched 27 years ago. Bezos letters are an annual tradition, and his farewell address is full of insight about his views on the business and current events, with warnings about threats to democracy and the environment, and the need for all us t...

This week: Its smackdown season in techland Warner Bros. Maybe its because of all the hoopla over the new "Godzilla vs. Kong" movie, but Im noticing a lot of news about clashes between the titans of the tech industry lately.  The decade-long courtroom battle between Google and Oracle came to a close this week when the US Supreme Court declared Google the victor, absolving it of any allegations that it stole Oracles code by using Java APIs in the Android opera...

Spring is here, arms are getting jabbed across the country, and in Silicon Valley the mood is feverish. Every day brings news of big-ticket startup funding deals, eye-popping valuations, and fresh stock listings. Its not as if Silicon Valley was struggling to attract capital before. But with the tech business having proven surprisingly impervious to the pandemic, an emboldened industry now seems convinced that the re-opening will bring only more good times.  S...

A startup fever is sweeping Silicon Valley aoreskovic@businessinsider.com (Alexei Oreskovic) Hello, and welcome to this weeks edition of the Insider Tech newsletter, where we break down the biggest news in tech, including: Spring is here, arms are getting jabbed across the country, and in Silicon Valley the mood is feverish. Every day brings news of big-ticket startup funding deals, eye-popping valuations, and fresh stock listings. Its not as if Silicon Valley was struggling to ...

Twitters surprise counterattack to hold politicians accountable aoreskovic@businessinsider.com (Alexei Oreskovic) Hello, and welcome to this weeks edition of the Insider Tech newsletter, where we break down the biggest news in tech. Wait, this is Saturday, you say. Doesnt this newsletter come out on Wednesdays? Not anymore. Were changing things up and moving to weekends, so you can have more time to enjoy all the great articles with your morning coffee - including: © Rolf Venn...

In this week's edition of the Insider Tech newsletter we look at how the shortage of vaccines and semiconductors hint at the future of tech policy.

In this week's edition of the Insider Tech newsletter we look at the future of Twitter, SoftBank and Amazon Web Services.

Hello, and welcome to this Wednesdays edition of the Insider Tech newsletter, where we break down the biggest news in tech. Im your host Alexei Oreskovic.

This week: Jeff Bezos made a shadow in his own image. Now comes the $1.7 trillion test. For a CEO waving goodbye, theres no rebuke more stinging than a surging stock - an in-your-face, unequivocal verdict, measured in market cap, of how happy investors are to see you go. Advertisement On the other hand, not even the most vain of CEOs wants to see their companys stock plunge when they head for the exit (if for no other reason than to protect their own financial interest tied to the companys equ...