Twitter CEO Signals More Change After Hiring Freeze, Cost Cuts
San Francisco-based Twitter has agreed to be acquired by Elon Musk in a $44 billion deal. Photo: amy osborne/Agence France-Presse/Getty...
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Hot Job Market, Strong Demand for CFOs Strain Due Diligence
The sudden exit of Moderna Inc.’s newly hired chief financial officer shines a light on the challenges companies and recruiters...
Tech Industry Warns That More Remote-Work Jobs Are Headed Out of U.S.
WASHINGTON—Tech-industry representatives are coming to Capitol Hill this week to warn that the remote-work trend will lead to more offshoring...
‘Doctor Strange’ Gives Summer Movie Season a Strong Start
The summer blockbuster is back.After two years of delays, cancellations and false starts because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the 2022...
Fed Lifts Interest Rates by Half-Point in Biggest Hike Since 2000
The Federal Reserve approved a rare half-percentage-point interest rate increase—the largest since 2000—and a plan to shrink its $9 trillion...
Starbucks Plans Barista Raises, Says Unionized Cafes Will Need to Bargain
Starbucks Corp. said it would boost pay for U.S. baristas who have been with the company for at least two...
Amazon Workers Reject Union in New York After Labor Victory at Separate Facility
Amazon.com workers voted against unionizing at a facility on Staten Island, N.Y., a win for the company after a loss...
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...
Amazon Posts First Quarterly Loss Since 2015 as Costs, Rivian Stake Weigh on Results
Amazon.com Inc. AMZN 4.65% posted its first quarterly loss in seven years, a result that reflected broad economic trends related...
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...
TikTok Owner ByteDance Taps Senior Lawyer Julie Gao as CFO
SINGAPORE—ByteDance Ltd., the Chinese owner of short-video platform TikTok, appointed a senior China-focused lawyer as their new chief financial officer,...
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...
British Encryption Startup Arqit Overstates Its Prospects, Former Staff and Others Say
A U.K. cybersecurity startup rocketed to a multibillion-dollar valuation when it listed publicly last fall on the promise of making...
When Quitting Normalizes, Benefit to Low-Wage Workers May Subside
Low-wage workers capitalized on the rare opportunity of a tight labor market with a burst of job-switching. That wave shows...
WSJ News Exclusive | Several Million U.S. Workers Seen Staying Out of Labor Force Indefinitely
Several million workers who dropped out of the U.S. workforce during the Covid-19 pandemic plan to stay out indefinitely because...
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...
Elon Musk, Again an Outsider at Twitter, Emerges as Unshackled Wild Card for Company
Elon Musk’s surprise decision not to join Twitter Inc.’s board gives the social-media company less control over its largest shareholder,...
Airlines Have Been Staffing Up, Hoping for a Smoother Summer
Facing a summer of packed flights, airlines are striving to avoid the blunders of a year earlier. Carriers say they...
U.S. Jobless Claims Fall to 166,000, Lowest Level Since 1968
New applications for U.S. unemployment benefits fell last week to a near 54-year low as employers held on to workers...
