Meet the Army of Robots Coming to Fill In for Scarce Workers
A new wave of robots is arriving—and, in a world short of workers, business leaders are more eager to welcome...
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Apple Workers Vote for Union at Oklahoma Store in Second Organizing Win
Apple Inc. AAPL -3.22% retail workers in Oklahoma City voted to unionize, becoming the second group of employees at one...
Walgreens Quarterly Sales Fall on Fewer Prescriptions, Covid-19 Vaccinations
Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. WBA 5.35% said it is counting on its burgeoning healthcare business to fuel profit growth in...
TSMC Reports Record Profit, Gains Exemption From U.S. Chip Curbs on China
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. said that its third-quarter net profit rose 80% to a new record, and that it had...
Biden Rule Would Add More Gig Workers to Company Payrolls
The Biden administration is proposing a new rule that could put more gig workers on company payrolls, scrapping a Trump...
Elon Musk’s Monster Week of Juggling Twitter, Tesla and SpaceX
Even by the standards of Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and serial entrepreneur, this week was one for the...
Memory Chip Makers Struggle With Declines in Demand, Price
The pandemic boom in memory chips is on pause. A decline in prices in recent months has led the biggest...
September Jobs Report Shows Payrolls Grew by 263,000, Labor Market Cooled Some
The unemployment rate fell to 3.5% from 3.7% in August, the Labor Department said Friday, matching a half-century low that...
Samsung Expects Earnings to Slump as Consumer Spending Slips
SEOUL— Samsung Electronics Co. is expected to see its third-quarter profit slump as the company’s mainstay memory-chip and smartphone businesses...
Tesla Aims to Deliver First Semitrailer Trucks in December to PepsiCo
Elon Musk said Tesla Inc. TSLA -1.11% plans to deliver its first all-electric semitrailer truck to food and beverage maker...
Puff Bar Stays Top Teen Vaping Choice, as Juul Slips
About 14% of U.S. high-school students—an estimated 2.1 million of them—said they had used e-cigarettes at least once during the...
WSJ News Exclusive | Elon Musk and Twitter Discussed Price Cut to $44 Billion Takeover in Recent Weeks
Informal discussions on a possible price cut to the $44 billion Twitter deal took place on a series of calls...
Elon Musk Proposes Closing Twitter Deal on Original Terms
A lawyer for Mr. Musk communicated the proposal to Twitter’s lawyers Monday, according to a copy of a two-sentence letter...
Naver to Acquire Poshmark in Deal Valued at $1.2 Billion
Poshmark is a social marketplace for new and used clothing. Photo: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg News Updated Oct. 3, 2022 7:47 pm...
Chinese Tech Billionaire Richard Liu Settles Sexual-Assault Case in Minnesota
MINNEAPOLIS—A legal battle that Chinese feminists had seen as pivotal for the country’s embattled #MeToo movement ended abruptly just before...
Elon Musk Unveils Prototype of Humanoid Robot Optimus, Says It Will Cost Less Than a Car
Mr. Musk first laid out the vision for the robot, called Optimus, a little more than a year ago at...
The Next Big Battle Between Google and Apple Is for the Soul of Your Car
A few years from now, in addition to deciding your next vehicle’s make and model, you may have another tough...
Twitter Co-Founder Dorsey Tried to Smooth the Way for Musk, Agrawal, Messages Show
Twitter Inc. co-founder Jack Dorsey tried to facilitate Elon Musk’s relationship with Twitter’s chief executive officer a day after the...
Cerebral Treated a 17-Year-Old Without His Parents’ Consent. They Found Out the Day He Died.
Telehealth startup Cerebral Inc. had software that could verify customer IDs but didn’t use it to check birth dates and...
Intel Introduces Videogame Graphics Chips to Challenge Nvidia
Intel Corp. INTC -0.30% plans to start selling graphics chips for videogamers next month, aiming to get a piece of...
