Elon Musk Takes Twitter Helm as Social Media Sputters
With his six-month takeover saga behind him, Elon Musk now takes on the work of righting Twitter Inc.’s ship in...
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Google Loses Most of Appeal of EU Android Decision
BRUSSELS— Alphabet Inc.’s GOOG -5.86% Google lost most of its appeal to overturn the largest antitrust fine it has so...
YouTube’s Top Business Executive Leaving Company
YouTube’s top business executive, who helped build the Google unit from an upstart into a video giant, is leaving the...
Facebook Parent Meta Platforms Reports First Ever Revenue Drop
The company reported quarterly revenue of $28.8 billion, down almost 1% from a year earlier and slightly below the $28.9...
WSJ News Exclusive | Elon Musk’s Friendship With Sergey Brin Ruptured by Alleged Affair
Elon Musk engaged in a brief affair last fall with the wife of Sergey Brin, prompting the Google co-founder to...
Apple, Amazon, Meta Highlight Tech-Heavy Earnings Week
A little more than one-third of S&P 500, or 175 companies, are scheduled to report earnings in the coming week,...
FCC Member Calls On Apple, Google to Banish TikTok
WASHINGTON—A federal communications regulator has asked Apple Inc. and Google to remove Chinese-owned TikTok from their app stores, citing the...
Pinterest CEO Is Stepping Down, Google Commerce Executive to Take Top Job
Pinterest longtime chief executive is stepping down and a Google commerce executive is taking over the top job, the social-media...
Google Settles Gender Discrimination Lawsuit for $118 Million
Google agreed to pay $118 million to settle a lawsuit claiming the tech giant had discriminated against women in pay...
The Tech Crash Could Be a Talent Bonanza for Big Tech
Apple, Amazon, AMZN 3.66% Microsoft, Google and Facebook FB 1.83% parent Meta Platforms have spent years battling for engineers and...
Buffalo Shooting Tests Internet Antiterrorism Accord
WELLINGTON, New Zealand—The live-streaming of a shooting rampage at a supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y., demonstrated the strengths and limitations of...
Airbnb Adopts Work-From-Anywhere Approach, Including Overseas
Airbnb Inc. ABNB 4.93% is telling employees they can now work from almost anywhere in the world without a pay...
Alphabet Earnings Show Slowing Sales Growth on Digital-Ad Tumult
Google parent Alphabet Inc. GOOG -3.04% posted slower sales growth as global economic turmoil disrupted digital advertising spending.The company said...
Google Loses Upper Hand on App Payments in South Korea
SEOUL—Google can’t punish South Korean app developers for offering payment workarounds, a blow to the U.S. tech giant’s efforts to...
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...
U.S., EU Reach Preliminary Deal on Data Privacy
The U.S. and the European Union reached a preliminary deal to allow data about Europeans to be stored on U.S....
Google-Facebook Ad Deal Is Investigated by EU, U.K.
The European Union and the U.K. opened formal antitrust investigations into whether Alphabet Inc.’s GOOG -0.88% Google and Facebook FB...
Tech Companies Are Reopening Their Offices, but Tech Work Has Changed Forever
Tech companies are inching closer to reopening their offices, but it’s clear the way they work will never be the...
Google Parent Caps Blockbuster Year With Sales Gains
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
WASHINGTON—A Senate panel approved antitrust legislation forbidding the largest tech platforms from favoring their own products and services over competitors’,...
