Airbnb Adopts Work-From-Anywhere Approach, Including Overseas
Airbnb Inc. ABNB 4.93% is telling employees they can now work from almost anywhere in the world without a pay...
Alphabet
Facebook Revenue Slows but User Gains Boost Stock
Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. FB -3.32% added more users than expected but posted its slowest revenue growth since going...
Alphabet Earnings Show Slowing Sales Growth on Digital-Ad Tumult
Google parent Alphabet Inc. GOOG -3.04% posted slower sales growth as global economic turmoil disrupted digital advertising spending.The company said...
Google Loses Upper Hand on App Payments in South Korea
SEOUL—Google can’t punish South Korean app developers for offering payment workarounds, a blow to the U.S. tech giant’s efforts to...
How Microsoft Became Washington’s Favorite Tech Giant
When a congressional committee was preparing to publicly interrogate the CEOs of four tech giants in 2020, Microsoft Corp. President...
U.S., EU Reach Preliminary Deal on Data Privacy
The U.S. and the European Union reached a preliminary deal to allow data about Europeans to be stored on U.S....
Google-Facebook Ad Deal Is Investigated by EU, U.K.
The European Union and the U.K. opened formal antitrust investigations into whether Alphabet Inc.’s GOOG -0.88% Google and Facebook FB...
Russia Targets Media Outlets With ‘Fake News’ Law, Blocks Facebook
Russia passed a law that threatens prison time for anyone publishing what authorities consider to be false information about the...
Tech Companies Are Reopening Their Offices, but Tech Work Has Changed Forever
Tech companies are inching closer to reopening their offices, but it’s clear the way they work will never be the...
Google Parent Caps Blockbuster Year With Sales Gains
Google parent Alphabet Inc. GOOG 1.61% posted another quarter of strong sales growth, capping a year when profit nearly doubled...
Senate Panel Approves Antitrust Bill Restricting Big Tech Platforms
WASHINGTON—A Senate panel approved antitrust legislation forbidding the largest tech platforms from favoring their own products and services over competitors’,...
Google and Tech Rivals Tap Cash Reserves to Realize Cloud Ambitions
Google and its rivals are wielding a new weapon in the battle for cloud-computing market share: big-dollar investments in companies...
Oracle’s Larry Ellison Targets the Health Cloud With $28.3 Billion Bid for Cerner
Oracle Corp. ORCL -4.27% on Monday announced its largest deal ever, a roughly $28.3 billion purchase of electronic-medical-records company Cerner...
Roku Shares Rise on Deal That Restores YouTube TV App
Roku shares more than doubled in 2020 as the Covid-19 pandemic kept people home and led to increased use of...
Advertisers Adjust Holiday Messages to Covid-19, Supply-Chain Challenges
Companies are rethinking their advertising strategies this holiday season as multiple problems, from supply-chain constraints to continued worries about Covid-19,...
Google to Pursue Pentagon Cloud-Computing Contract
Google is pursuing a massive cloud-computing contract with the Department of Defense, nearly three years after abandoning a similar bid...
Hospitals Face Steeper Fines for Shunning Federal Price-Disclosure Rules
The Biden administration on Tuesday finalized a regulation that will sharply increase the financial penalties for larger hospitals that don’t...
Facebook Posts Slower Sales Growth With Apple Privacy Policy
Facebook Inc. blamed Apple Inc.’s AAPL -0.03% privacy rules for posting slower sales growth and warned of further uncertainty for...
Google Charges More Than Twice Its Rivals in Ad Deals, Unredacted Suit Says
Google takes a cut of 22% to 42% of U.S. ad spending that goes through its systems, according to a...
The Antitrust Case Against Google: It’s Becoming Too Much Like Apple
Google has adopted rules similar to ones that Apple Inc. requires for its software that powers smartphones and distributes apps...
