Intuit to Buy Credit Karma to Create Financial Data Giant
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SAN FRANCISCO — Intuit, the parent company of TurboTax and Mint, agreed on Monday to pay $7.1 billion for Credit Karma[1], a start-up that has become one of the most…
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As the Start-Up Boom Deflates, Tech Is Humbled
SAN FRANCISCO — Over the past decade, technology start-ups grew so quickly that they couldn’t hire people fast enough. Now the layoffs have started coming[1] in droves. Last month, the…
Google Reaches Document Protection Deal in Antitrust Fight
SAN FRANCISCO — Google reached an agreement with a group of state attorneys general on Thursday over how officials will handle information it provides during their antitrust investigation into the…
The Week in Tech: Coronavirus Hits Apple’s Financial Forecast
Hello, New York Times tech readers. I’m Nellie Bowles, the tech and culture reporter, here now with the roundup of the news. It was a week that captured the central…
New Mexico Sues Google Over Children’s Privacy Violations
New Mexico’s attorney general sued Google on Thursday, saying the tech giant used its educational products to spy on the state’s children and families. Google collected a trove of students’…
Lawrence Tesler, Who Made Personal Computing Easier, Dies at 74
Lawrence Tesler, a pioneering computer scientist who helped make it easier for users to interact with computers, whether cutting and pasting text or selecting text by dragging a cursor through…
Your Doorbell Camera Spied on You. Now What?
Has there ever been a tech product more polarizing than Ring? The internet-connected doorbell gadget, which lets you watch live video of your front porch through a phone app or…
Europe, Overrun by Foreign Tech Giants, Wants to Grow Its Own
LONDON — Across the digital economy, Europe has been missing. Apple, based in California, and Samsung, from South Korea, make the most popular phones in Europe. Facebook owns the most…
Kickstarter Employees Vote to Unionize in a Big Step for Tech
SAN FRANCISCO — Employees at the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter voted on Tuesday to unionize, the first well-known technology company to take the step toward being represented by organized labor. The…
Apple Signals Coronavirus’s Threat to Global Businesses
SAN FRANCISCO — Apple on Monday became one of the first companies to reveal how the coronavirus that has gripped China was affecting its business, saying it was cutting its…
