Facebook Deliberately Caused Havoc in Australia to Influence New Law, Whistleblowers Say
Last year when Facebook FB -5.90% blocked news in Australia in response to potential legislation making platforms pay publishers for...
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Elon Musk Criticizes Twitter Executive, Drawing Employee Backlash
Elon Musk, whose takeover bid for Twitter Inc. was accepted two days ago, continued to use the site to criticize...
Activision Blizzard Names Two Women to Its Board
Activision Blizzard Inc. ATVI -0.02% said it is moving to add two women to its board of directors, months after...
Tesla Probed by EEOC Before California Sued Car Maker Over Alleged Racial Discrimination
A principal U.S. federal agency responsible for enforcing antidiscrimination laws has investigated Tesla Inc., according to a legal filing. The...
Alex Jones’s Infowars Files for Bankruptcy Over Sandy Hook Lawsuits
Infowars and other media assets backed by far-right radio host Alex Jones filed for bankruptcy, opening a new front in...
First Criminal Trials Over Wage-Fixing, Hiring Practices End in Loss for Justice Department
Juries in Texas and Colorado this week turned back the Justice Department’s efforts to prosecute corporate defendants accused of colluding...
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...
Judge Approves $18 Million Activision Settlement With EEOC
A California judge has approved an $18 million settlement between Activision Blizzard Inc. and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, marking...
Price-Fixing Case Against Chicken Company Officials Ends in Mistrial, Again
The U.S. Department of Justice’s effort to prosecute alleged price fixing in the poultry industry suffered a major setback after...
Former World Bank Chief Didn’t Act on Warnings of Sexual Harassment
Former World Bank chief Kristalina Georgieva knew about a top official’s sexual misconduct but failed to take any action despite...
Former Boeing Pilot Found Not Guilty in 737 MAX Criminal Trial
FORT WORTH, Texas—A jury found a former Boeing Co. BA -2.62% pilot not guilty of deceiving air-safety regulators about a...
Amazon Wins Dismissal of D.C. Antitrust Lawsuit Over Pricing
WASHINGTON—Amazon.com Inc. won dismissal on Friday of an antitrust lawsuit brought against it by the District of Columbia, which had...
Elon Musk Seeks to Terminate 2018 Fraud Settlement With SEC
Tesla Inc. TSLA 2.46% Chief Executive Elon Musk asked a federal judge on Tuesday to scrap a settlement he reached...
Carlos Ghosn Blasts Tokyo Judge Who Called Him Greedy
TOKYO—A Tokyo judge lashed out at fugitive car executive Carlos Ghosn, calling him a greedy and malicious criminal, and Mr....
Chicken Industry Officials Prepare for Retrial in Price-Fixing Case
Executives who worked for some of the biggest U.S. chicken producers are set to stand trial for a second time...
Elon Musk’s Accusation of Harassment Countered by SEC
WASHINGTON—The Securities and Exchange Commission pushed back Friday on Tesla Inc.’s allegation that regulators are harassing Chief Executive Officer Elon...
Alibaba, Tencent E-Commerce Sites Tagged by U.S. for Counterfeit Sales
Both were on the “notorious markets’’ list of entities that allegedly sell or facilitate the sale of counterfeit goods. Source...
Tesla Tells Federal Judge That SEC Is Harassing Elon Musk and the Company
Tesla Inc. says regulators are harassing Chief Executive Elon Musk over his compliance with a 2018 regulatory settlement that sought...
Canada Bridge Protesters Agree to Open One Lane From U.S.
Protesters who have blocked a crucial U.S.-Canada trade corridor decided Friday to open a lane of traffic for U.S. vehicles...
FDA Rejects Short Sellers’ Request to Halt Trials of Alzheimer’s Drug
The Food and Drug Administration has denied a petition by short sellers to halt clinical trials of an experimental Alzheimer’s...
