Daring to Cut Off Amazon

By DAVID STREITFELD 43 minutes ago

Nick Oxford for The New York Times

Employees at the Educational Development Corporation in Tulsa, Okla., packed books for shipment.

In February, the Educational Development Corporation said it would remove all its titles from Amazon, more evidence of the tumult over who gets to decide how much a book costs.

Iraq Emerges From Isolation as Telecommunications Hub

By ERIC PFANNER 3:27 PM ET

A $500 million undersea cable connecting the country to the rest of the world is a first step in a plan to turn Iraq into a conduit for Internet traffic between East and West.

At Sony's headquarters, a display was viewed in 3-D.

How the Tech Parade Passed Sony By

By HIROKO TABUCHI

Sony once wowed the world with the Walkman and the Trinitron TV. But its fortunes have taken a sharp turn amid disruptive new technologies and unforeseen rivals.

Cars for Google’s Street View project driving in Manhattan. The company is drawing fire over the effort.

Google Is Faulted for Impeding U.S. Inquiry on Data Collection

By DAVID STREITFELD

Federal regulators ordered a $25,000 fine on the search giant, saying it “deliberately impeded” an investigation into the sweeping up of personal data by cars being used to map streets.

Digital Domain

The Pair app, built for just two people.

Social Networks, Small and Smaller

By RANDALL STROSS

On Path, FamilyLeaf and Pair, users can post information without fear of sharing with the wrong people.

Mike Krieger, left, and Shayne Sweeney. Instagram kept its team lean, adding 11 people over the last year, including several Stanford alumni.

Behind Instagram’s Success, Networking the Old Way

By SOMINI SENGUPTA, NICOLE PERLROTH and JENNA WORTHAM

The founders of Instagram, now multimillionaires after Facebook bought their app this week, were helped along the way by the tight web in the Bay Area tech scene.

Disruptions

Innovation Isn’t Easy, Especially Midstream

By NICK BILTON

Why could a small start-up build Instagram, a photo app, and sell it for $1 billion while companies like Eastman Kodak, steeped in photography and the emotionalism of photography, could not? Culture got in the way.