Sony’s Videogame Strategy Challenged by Microsoft’s Deal for Activision
TOKYO— Sony Group Corp. SONY -3.45% finds itself in a position many gamers could appreciate, having climbed to the highest...
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Sony Shares Fall Sharply After News of Microsoft Deal for Activision Blizzard
Sony’s Jim Ryan in Las Vegas earlier this month. Photo: patrick t. fallon/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Sony Group Corp.’s SONY -7.17%...
Microsoft to Buy Activision Blizzard in All-Cash Deal Valued at $68.7 Billion
The deal, if completed, would sharply expand Microsoft’s already sizable videogame operation, adding a stable of popular game franchises including...
Didi’s Revenue Falls After Beijing’s Crackdown Hurts Its China Business
Didi in early December said it is planning to delist from the U.S. and pursue a listing in Hong Kong....
Google and Tech Rivals Tap Cash Reserves to Realize Cloud Ambitions
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
Oracle Corp. ORCL -4.27% on Monday announced its largest deal ever, a roughly $28.3 billion purchase of electronic-medical-records company Cerner...
Tech-Savvy Kids Defeat Apple’s and Others’ Parental-Control Features
For the past three years, Lance Walker has been locked in a cat-and-mouse game with his 11-year-old daughter for control...
At Twitter and Salesforce, Bret Taylor Steps Into the Limelight
Bret Taylor has been involved with some of the tech industry’s most notable innovations—from Google Maps to Facebook ’s “like”...
Hackers Backed by China Seen Exploiting Security Flaw in Internet Software
Hackers linked to China and other governments are among a growing assortment of cyberattackers seeking to exploit a widespread and...
Flash-Mob Thefts Planned on Snapchat and Other Apps, Police Say
SAN FRANCISCO—A recent rash of thefts by fast-moving mobs at stores in the Bay Area and outside Minneapolis were organized...
Tech Giants Microsoft, Amazon and Others Warn of Widespread Software Flaw
Cybersecurity officials at major tech companies are scrambling to patch a serious flaw in a widely used piece of internet...
Apple Notified State Department Employees of Phone Hacking Linked to NSO Group Software
Apple Inc. last week notified 11 U.S. State Department employees in Uganda that their iPhones were hacked, and investigators have...
Not Sure How Much You Should Be Paid? Colorado Could Offer Some Clues
You don’t have to go to another job interview without knowing how much you can actually make. People applying to...
Zoom Shares Skid as Sales Growth Slows
Zoom Video Communications Inc. sales growth slowed last quarter as the extra demand for remote work and the company’s videoconferencing...
WSJ News Exclusive | Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick Tells Colleagues He Would Consider Leaving if He Can’t Quickly Fix Problems
Activision Blizzard Inc. Chief Executive Bobby Kotick has told senior managers he would consider leaving the company if he can’t...
Microsoft Pressures Activision Blizzard
Microsoft Corp.’s videogame boss said the company is evaluating its relationship with Activision Blizzard Inc. in the wake of a...
WSJ News Exclusive | Roblox, Building Out the Metaverse, Looks to Bring Educational Videogames to Schools
Roblox Corp. plans to help bring educational videogames to classrooms world-wide, part of its strategy to expand its mostly teen...
Judge Rejects Apple’s Request to Delay App Store Order
U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers rejected Apple Inc.’s attempt to delay her September injunction that would loosen some of...
Google to Pursue Pentagon Cloud-Computing Contract
Google is pursuing a massive cloud-computing contract with the Department of Defense, nearly three years after abandoning a similar bid...
Roblox Outage Continues Into Weekend
Videogame company Roblox Corp. suffered an outage Thursday evening that continued through Saturday, leaving children around the globe looking for...
