A Brooding ‘The Batman’ Revives Moviegoing With Top Opening This Year
Batman can add another vanquished villain to his résumé: the dreary start to this year’s Hollywood box office.“The Batman,” Warner...
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Activision CEO Bobby Kotick Steps Down From Coca-Cola Board
Coca-Cola Co. said Activision Blizzard Inc. Chief Executive Bobby Kotick won’t stand for re-election to its board of directors. “We...
Best Buy Posts Lower Sales on Supply-Chain Hit, Omicron Impact
Best Buy Co. ’s sales for the holiday quarter fell from a year earlier, as reduced store hours due to...
Facebook, Apple and Other Tech Giants Face Rising Pressure Over Ukraine
U.S. tech giants are under pressure from both Russia and the West to respond to the conflict in Ukraine, highlighting...
Climate Disclosure Poses Thorny Questions for SEC as Rules Weighed
A key sticking point as the agency considers corporate rules is how much detail to demand about emissions produced by...
Intel CEO Sees Revenue Growth Gaining Pace Starting Next Year
Intel Corp. Chief Executive Pat Gelsinger set a goal for the company to reach double-digit revenue growth in three to...
Samsung Unveils New Galaxy S22 Smartphones and Keeps Old Prices
SEOUL—The world’s largest smartphone maker is answering a year of rising inflation and increasing component costs with a tactical move:...
Toshiba Looks to Split Two Ways Instead of Three
TOKYO— Toshiba Corp. TOSYY 0.92% revised its restructuring plan and said it wants to split into two parts instead of...
Cyberattack on News Corp, Believed Linked to China, Targeted Emails of Journalists, Others
News Corp was the target of a hack that accessed emails and documents of journalists and other employees, an incursion...
Teachers Are Quitting, and Companies Are Hot to Hire Them
Burned out teachers are leaving the classroom for jobs in the private sector, where talent-hungry companies are hiring them—and often...
Sony to Buy Videogame Maker Bungie in $3.6 Billion Deal
Sony Group Corp.’s SONY 4.51% videogame unit said Monday that it is buying videogame developer Bungie Inc., the studio that...
Citrix Systems to Go Private in Deal Valued at $16.5 Billion, Including Debt
Citrix Systems Inc. CTXS -3.81% will be taken private in an all-cash acquisition valued at $16.5 billion, including debt, making...
Elliott and Vista Near Deal to Buy Citrix Systems
Elliott Management Corp.’s private-equity arm, Evergreen Coast Capital, and Vista Equity Partners are near an agreement to pay $104 a...
What CEOs Are Saying About Inflation: ‘The World Has Changed’
This is what some of the world’s corporate leaders said on their quarterly earnings calls this week about what they...
Tesla Is the Latest Entrant Into the Carpool Karaoke Competition
Chinese consumers on Friday gave an ovation to Tesla Inc., TSLA 2.08% a new seller of karaoke microphones for singing...
Shopify Denies Allegations in Textbook Pirating Lawsuit
Shopify Inc. SHOP 6.92% denied that it is liable for alleged copyright and trademark infringement by online sellers using its...
AMD’s Planned Purchase of Xilinx Clears Last Big Regulatory Hurdle
TOKYO—Chinese authorities approved U.S. chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s AMD -2.47% planned $35 billion purchase of Xilinx Inc., XLNX...
Chip Shortage Leaves U.S. Companies Dangerously Low on Semiconductors, Report Says
WASHINGTON—U.S. manufacturers and other companies that use semiconductors are down to less than five days of inventory for key chips,...
Microsoft Earnings Grew Last Quarter With Demand for Cloud Services
Microsoft Corp. MSFT -2.66% said its earnings continued to grow last quarter as its cloud-services business stayed strong.On Tuesday, the...
U.S. Plans Sanctions, Export Controls Against Russia if It Invades Ukraine
The U.S. is prepared to impose export controls on critical sectors of the Russian economy if Russian President Vladimir Putin...
