The Pandemic Was Supposed to Push All Shopping Online. It Didn’t.
When millions of locked-down Americans went online during the Covid-19 pandemic, it looked like the possible start of a permanent...
Software
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...
Intel Gave CEO Pay Package Worth Nearly $180 Million Amid Turnaround Effort
Intel Corp. awarded Chief Executive Officer Pat Gelsinger compensation last year that could be worth nearly $180 million, tying much...
Judge Approves $18 Million Activision Settlement With EEOC
A California judge has approved an $18 million settlement between Activision Blizzard Inc. and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, marking...
Activision CEO Bobby Kotick Steps Down From Coca-Cola Board
Coca-Cola Co. said Activision Blizzard Inc. Chief Executive Bobby Kotick won’t stand for re-election to its board of directors. “We...
Cyberattack on News Corp, Believed Linked to China, Targeted Emails of Journalists, Others
News Corp was the target of a hack that accessed emails and documents of journalists and other employees, an incursion...
Teachers Are Quitting, and Companies Are Hot to Hire Them
Burned out teachers are leaving the classroom for jobs in the private sector, where talent-hungry companies are hiring them—and often...
Sony to Buy Videogame Maker Bungie in $3.6 Billion Deal
Sony Group Corp.’s SONY 4.51% videogame unit said Monday that it is buying videogame developer Bungie Inc., the studio that...
Citrix Systems to Go Private in Deal Valued at $16.5 Billion, Including Debt
Citrix Systems Inc. CTXS -3.81% will be taken private in an all-cash acquisition valued at $16.5 billion, including debt, making...
Elliott and Vista Near Deal to Buy Citrix Systems
Elliott Management Corp.’s private-equity arm, Evergreen Coast Capital, and Vista Equity Partners are near an agreement to pay $104 a...
Shopify Denies Allegations in Textbook Pirating Lawsuit
Shopify Inc. SHOP 6.92% denied that it is liable for alleged copyright and trademark infringement by online sellers using its...
Microsoft Earnings Grew Last Quarter With Demand for Cloud Services
Microsoft Corp. MSFT -2.66% said its earnings continued to grow last quarter as its cloud-services business stayed strong.On Tuesday, the...
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...
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...
