Winning Ticket to Join Jeff Bezos in Space Costs Nearly $30 Million in Blue Origin Auction
A ticket to go into space next month with Jeff Bezos went for almost $30 million, including the commission, in...
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House Bills Seek to Break Up Amazon and Other Big Tech Companies
House lawmakers proposed a raft of bipartisan legislation aimed at reining in the country’s biggest tech companies, including a bill...
GameStop Remakes C-Suite, Board in Turnaround Push
The company named two Amazon.com Inc. veterans as its chief executive and chief financial officer, and shareholders voted Ryan Cohen...
Google Settles Antitrust Case Over Advertising Practices
PARIS— Alphabet Inc.’s GOOG 1.96% Google agreed to pay French regulators a fine of nearly $270 million, settling one of...
G-7 Nations Agree on New Rules for Taxing Global Companies
The Group of Seven leading rich countries agreed to back new rules for taxing businesses that operate internationally in a...
Amazon Would Add James Bond, Content Depth in Expected MGM Deal
Amazon.com Inc.’s desire to acquire the fabled MGM movie and television studio in a deal valued at $9 billion with...
Amazon Nears Deal to Buy Hollywood Studio MGM
Amazon.com Inc. AMZN 1.31% is nearing a deal to buy the Hollywood studio MGM Holdings for almost $9 billion including...
Washington Post Names Sally Buzbee Executive Editor
The Washington Post tapped Sally Buzbee as its next executive editor, as the news outlet tries to sustain the rapid...
WSJ News Exclusive | GOP Lawmakers Urge Probe of Amazon’s Pursuit of Pentagon Contract
Two Republican lawmakers are pressing the attorney general to investigate potential anticompetitive behavior by Amazon. AMZN -2.33% com Inc. in...
Five Tech Giants Just Keep Growing
If the pandemic had never happened, the tech industry’s clout likely would have risen over the past year. But the...
Netflix Subscriber Growth Slows as Economies Reopen
Netflix Inc. NFLX -0.88% said subscriber growth for the first quarter was weaker than expected, a potential warning sign for...
Amazon Vote Deals Blow to Expanding Labor Union Membership
Workers’ rejection of a union at Amazon.com Inc.’s warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., is a setback to organized labor’s efforts to...
Amazon Workers in Alabama Vote Against Forming a Union
Amazon.com Inc. employees in Alabama voted not to unionize, according to a Wall Street Journal tally, handing the tech giant...
Amazon Leads by Wide Margin in Alabama Union Election
Federal officials are counting the votes in the closely watched union election by Amazon.com Inc. warehouse workers in Bessemer, Ala.,...
WSJ News Exclusive | After Covid-19, Office Leases Largely Come With Bargain Rates
Big companies are making plans to stick with city-center office buildings, but they are cutting back on space and driving...
WSJ News Exclusive | Merchant Groups Target Amazon in New Political Campaign
WASHINGTON—Merchant groups are forming a national coalition to campaign for stricter antitrust laws, including measures that could force Amazon.com Inc....
How Covid-19 Supercharged the Advertising ‘Triopoly’ of Google, Facebook and Amazon
When the pandemic upended the economy last year, companies took a hard look at their advertising plans.Oreos maker Mondelez International...
Using Someone Else’s Netflix Password Is Likely to Get Harder
Think twice before sharing that Netflix password.The streaming service for years turned a blind eye to password sharing, but recently...
Marco Rubio Backs Amazon Workers’ Union Push, Citing ‘Culture War Against Working-Class Values’
WASHINGTON— Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) voiced his support for a union-organizing drive at an Amazon.com Inc. warehouse in Alabama,...
WSJ News Exclusive | Amazon Won’t Sell Books Framing LGBTQ+ Identities as Mental Illnesses
Amazon. AMZN 1.83% com Inc. said it recently removed a three-year-old book about transgender issues from its platforms because it...
