Chiefs-Dolphins Playoff Game on Peacock Sets Records for U.S. Streaming and Internet Usage
Jan. 14, 2024 10:34 pm ETThe NFL playoff game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Miami Dolphins made history—and not...
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Renting Clothes Was Supposed to Be the Future of Fashion. Then Shoppers Got Bored.
Rent the Runway is betting that clothing from designers Diane von Furstenberg and Jason Wu can get customers to keep...
America’s Gas Bonanza Brings Biden New Political Dilemmas
The U.S. has become the world’s top exporter of liquefied natural gas. President Biden is finding that this superpower status...
The Onetime Auditor Brought In to Reinvent Gucci
Updated Jan. 12, 2024 12:00 am ETListen to article(2 minutes)MILAN—When Gucci’s flagship store here reopened last month, the space was...
EBay to Pay $3 Million Penalty for Employees Sending Live Cockroaches, Fetal Pig to Bloggers
Updated Jan. 11, 2024 4:55 pm ETEBay agreed to pay a $3 million criminal penalty after employees engaged in a...
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...
Supermarket Giant Drops Pepsi and Lay’s Over Price Increases
Updated Jan. 4, 2024 6:16 pm ETOne of the world’s biggest supermarket chains said it would drop several PepsiCo products...
Bari Weiss’s Surging News Startup Lures Readers Miffed at Media Coverage of Israel
Bari Weiss realized that her news startup, the Free Press, was attracting a lot of attention with its coverage of...
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...
Black Friday Deals Start Early, but Shoppers Are Choosy This Year
Millions of Americans are headed to stores on Black Friday, but retailers are navigating through a holiday season in which...
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...
‘Digital Discrimination’ in the Crosshairs of New FCC Rule
Updated Nov. 15, 2023 11:59 am ETWASHINGTON—Internet service providers will have their business practices scrutinized for “digital discrimination” based on...
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...
Maersk to Cut 10,000 Jobs as Cargo Boom Ends
Updated Nov. 3, 2023 8:16 am ETShipping and logistics giant A.P. Moller-Maersk said it would cut more than 10,000 jobs,...
Amazon Executives Discussed How Its Policies Hurt Sellers, FTC Suit Says
Updated Nov. 2, 2023 1:09 pm ETAmazon.com executives discussed how its pricing policies had a “punitive aspect” on sellers, according...
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...
Toyota Chairman Says People Are Finally Seeing the Reality About EVs
Updated Oct. 25, 2023 11:38 am ETTOKYO—Toyota Motor Chairman Akio Toyoda, when asked about electric-vehicle challenges including a recent lull...
