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Facebook’s Shares Plunge After Profit Decline

HS 03/02/2022

Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. posted rising revenues but a modest decline in profit as it increased spending to execute...

Google Parent Caps Blockbuster Year With Sales Gains

HS 02/02/2022

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

HS 21/01/2022

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

HS 30/12/2021

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

HS 20/12/2021

Oracle Corp. ORCL -4.27% on Monday announced its largest deal ever, a roughly $28.3 billion purchase of electronic-medical-records company Cerner...

YouTube TV Loses Disney Channels Including ESPN in Standoff

HS 18/12/2021

YouTube TV subscribers lost access to channels including ESPN and FX after YouTube’s agreement to carry programming from Walt Disney...

Roku Shares Rise on Deal That Restores YouTube TV App

HS 09/12/2021

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

HS 27/11/2021

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

HS 04/11/2021

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

HS 03/11/2021

The Biden administration on Tuesday finalized a regulation that will sharply increase the financial penalties for larger hospitals that don’t...

Google Charges More Than Twice Its Rivals in Ad Deals, Unredacted Suit Says

HS 22/10/2021

Google takes a cut of 22% to 42% of U.S. ad spending that goes through its systems, according to a...

Elon Musk Doubles Down on Artificial Intelligence at Tesla Amid Scrutiny of Autopilot

HS 20/08/2021

Elon Musk doubled down on Tesla Inc.’s embrace of artificial intelligence after a week of intensifying scrutiny of the advanced...

Apple, Amazon, Tesla Among the Giants Set to Post Results

HS 24/07/2021

Corporate giants from Apple Inc. to Visa Inc. are expected to report their financial results over the coming week, giving...

The Antitrust Case Against Google: It’s Becoming Too Much Like Apple

HS 10/07/2021

Google has adopted rules similar to ones that Apple Inc. requires for its software that powers smartphones and distributes apps...

States Target Google Play Store Practices in Antitrust Suit

HS 08/07/2021

Thirty-six states and the District of Columbia filed an antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet Inc.’s Google on Wednesday, alleging that the...

WSJ News Exclusive | Facebook, Twitter, Google Threaten to Quit Hong Kong Over Proposed Data Laws

HS 05/07/2021

HONG KONG— Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google have privately warned the Hong Kong government that they could...

Biden Weighs New Executive Order Restraining Big Business

HS 30/06/2021

The Biden administration is developing an executive order directing agencies to strengthen oversight of industries that they perceive to be...

Google, Facebook Pressure Falls Short as Antitrust Measures Advance in House Committee

HS 24/06/2021

WASHINGTON—A House committee approved far-reaching legislation to curb the market dominance of tech giants, including Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Facebook...