After Big Tesla Bet, Hertz Selling One-Third of EV Fleet
Updated Jan. 11, 2024 10:59 am ETHertz is selling about a third of its global electric vehicle fleet, citing weaker...
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The Latest Dirty Word in Corporate America: ESG
Following years of investor backlash, a number of business leaders are now making a conscious effort to avoid the once...
United Airlines Finds Loose Bolts on Some Boeing 737 MAX 9 Jets
Updated Jan. 8, 2024 6:18 pm ETUnited Airlines said it found loose bolts on some of the Boeing 737 MAX...
The Woman Shaking Up the $50 Billion Instant-Ramen Industry
Kim Jung-soo invented a super-spicy brand of noodles currently on the shelves of Walmart, Costco and major U.S. grocers. Source...
WSJ News Exclusive | News Startup Puck Taps Former Twitter Customer Chief as CEO
Puck tapped the former Twitter executive Sarah Personette as chief executive officer of the news startup, where she will be...
Behind Cheap Stuff From Shein and Temu: A Hard Bargain With Suppliers
Updated Jan. 3, 2024 11:22 am ETSHENZHEN, China—E-commerce sellers Shein and Temu are offering a lifeline for small suppliers in...
Big Four Accounting Firms Overhired. Now They’re Starting to Lay Off Partners.
An Ernst & Young senior partner, during a call with some of the accounting firm’s U.S. partners and staff, delivered...
Microsoft Tops the List of Best-Managed Companies of 2023
Journal Reports: LeadershipWhat’s New in the Best Managed Companies Rankings in 2023By Rick Wartzman , and Kelly TangDecember 13, 2023...
The American Store Is Shrinking
Updated Dec. 12, 2023 5:04 pm ETListen to article(1 minute)The average store size in the U.S. is the smallest it’s...
TikTok to Invest More Than $1.5 Billion in GoTo to Restart Indonesia E-Commerce Business
Updated Dec. 11, 2023 4:29 am ETBytedance’s TikTok will invest more than $1.5 billion in a deal with GoTo Group...
Okta Says Hackers Stole Data For All Customer Support Users
Okta said hackers stole data for all of its customer support system users in a breach that the identity-verification company...
Tech’s New Normal: Microcuts Over Growth at All Costs
The tech industry has largely recovered from the downturn, but Silicon Valley learned a long-lasting lesson: how to do more...
WSJ News Exclusive | Instagram’s Algorithm Delivers Toxic Video Mix to Adults Who Follow Children
Listen to article(2 minutes)Instagram’s Reels video service is designed to show users streams of short videos on topics the system...
TikTok’s Owner Wanted to Create a Hit Videogame. It Failed.
SINGAPORE—TikTok’s Chinese parent ByteDance has bet billions on videogames since 2019, setting up its own creative unit and acquiring buzzy...
Sam Altman to Join Microsoft Following OpenAI Ouster
Updated Nov. 20, 2023 9:10 am ETSAN FRANCISCO—Microsoft said it is hiring Sam Altman to helm a new advanced artificial-intelligence...
WSJ News Exclusive | Meta Strikes Deal to Return to China After 14 Years
SINGAPORE—Meta Platforms has struck a preliminary deal to sell a new, lower-priced version of its virtual-reality headset in China, regaining...
Meta to Require Campaigns to Disclose AI-Altered Political Ads
Meta Platforms on Wednesday announced that it will require advertisers to disclose when they run political ads with media that...
WSJ News Exclusive | Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd Steps Down
Bumble Inc.’s Whitney Wolfe Herd is stepping down as chief executive of the company known for the female-focused dating app...
Tech Giants Spend Billions on AI Startups—And Get Just as Much Back
Updated Nov. 3, 2023 1:41 pm ETAmazon, Google and Microsoft have spent the past year investing billions of dollars in...
Meta Pauses Ads for Users Under 18 in Europe as It Rolls Out Subscriptions
Updated Oct. 30, 2023 9:16 am ETMeta Platforms will stop showing ads to European teens as part of a plan...
