The Wall Street Journal.U.S. Politics China Widens Its Data Collection Through Popular App and Translation ServiceThe Wall Street Journal. - Shan Li, Philip WenBEIJING—China is using a widely-downloaded mobile app and a translation service to hoover up billions of pieces of data inside its borders and around the world, according to reports published in recent
The Wall Street Journal.Technology Colorado School District Goes High-Tech Amid Security ThreatsThe Wall Street Journal. - James RundleCloud backups, dedicated data-center racks and individual fiber-optic lines are usually the preserve of high-speed stockbrokers, but a range of physical and digital security threats are pushing schools
The Wall Street Journal.U.S. Politics Congress Probes Bot Messages About E-CigarettesThe Wall Street Journal. - John D. McKinnonWASHINGTON—A congressional committee and the Massachusetts attorney general are investigating whether millions of bot-generated social-media messages about e-cigarettes have been misleading consumers safety
The Wall Street Journal.Amazon Go Silicon Valley Takes On Amazon's Cashierless 'Go' StoresThe Wall Street Journal. - Sebastian HerreraSAN FRANCISCO—Amazon.com Inc. recently opened its fourth cashierless convenience store here, all located within a few blocks of each other. Nearby, two startups are each demonstrating their own technology
The Wall Street Journal.Technology AI Has Learned to Create Fake News StoriesThe Wall Street Journal. - Asa FitchReal-sounding but made-up news articles have become much easier to produce thanks to a handful of new tools powered by artificial intelligence—raising concerns about potential misuse of the technology.
The Wall Street Journal.Softbank SoftBank Seeks WeWork Control Via Financing PackageThe Wall Street Journal. - Maureen Farrell, Liz Hoffman, Eliot BrownSoftBank Group Corp. has prepared a financing package that would give it control of WeWork and further sideline its founder Adam Neumann in exchange for relieving the shared-office startup’s looming cash
The Wall Street Journal.India India's Richest Man Battles Amazon, Walmart to Work With Mom-and-Pop ShopsThe Wall Street Journal. - Corinne AbramsMUMBAI—India’s ubiquitous mom-and-pop stores are being weaponized in e-commerce wars, as Walmart Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. square off against India’s richest man in the country’s nascent online retail The
The Wall Street Journal.Technology Google Shuts Out Payday Loans With App-Store BanThe Wall Street Journal. - Yuka HayashiWASHINGTON—Google has barred high-interest consumer loan services from its app store, limiting payday lenders’ access to customers. The technology giant recently prohibited apps from offering personal
The Wall Street Journal.Technology Should Consumers Be Able to Sell Their Own Personal Data?The Wall Street Journal. - The Wall Street JournalPeople around the world are confused and concerned about what companies do with the data they collect from their interactions with consumers. A global survey conducted last fall by the research firm Ipsos
The Wall Street Journal.Facebook Warren Escalates Fight With Facebook Over Political AdsThe Wall Street Journal. - Patience HagginSen. Elizabeth Warren sought to turn Facebook Inc.’s political ad policy against it, running an ad with a false claim about Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg to highlight complaints about the social-media
The Wall Street Journal.Technology Mastercard, Visa, eBay Drop Out of Facebook's Libra Payments NetworkThe Wall Street Journal. - AnnaMaria Andriotis, Peter RudegeairThe biggest financial companies that Facebook Inc. recruited to launch a world-wide cryptocurrency-based payments network have backed out of the project, threatening to derail an ambitious initiative remake
The Wall Street Journal.Technology IAC Proposes to Spin Off MatchThe Wall Street Journal. - Patrick ThomasIAC/InterActiveCorp. said it has made a proposal to Match Group Inc.’s board to spin off its controlling interest in the online dating-dating giant to IAC shareholders. In August, IAC said it was considering
The Wall Street Journal.Technology EU Warns of 5G Risks Amid Scrutiny of HuaweiThe Wall Street Journal. - Anna Isaac, Parmy OlsonLONDON—The European Union has identified a series of specific security threats posed by foreign vendors of telecommunications equipment, significantly heightening the bloc’s scrutiny of suppliers like
The Wall Street Journal.Technology Streaming Is Killing Physical Media. Here's Why You Won't Miss It.The Wall Street Journal. - The Wall Street JournalAT THE END of a long and draining day, my favorite thing to do is slowly flip through my overstuffed binder of DVDs and Blu-rays. Like my dusty vinyl presses of Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones and
The Wall Street Journal.Uber Uber to Acquire Majority Stake in Grocery-Delivery Service CornershopThe Wall Street Journal. - Heather Haddon, Kimberly ChinUber Technologies Inc. has reached a deal to buy a majority stake in grocery-delivery company Cornershop, the latest in a rush by restaurant-delivery services to grab a slice of the larger food retail
The Wall Street Journal.Technology The Ultimate Learning MachinesThe Wall Street Journal. - Alison GopnikLast July, I went to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the blue-sky government research lab that helped to invent the computer and the internet. I was there, strange as it may seem,
The Wall Street Journal.Technology Can an AI System Be Given a Patent?The Wall Street Journal. - Jared CouncilIf an artificially intelligent system creates a new product, should patent offices recognize it as the inventor? That’s the question at the center of a case making its way through patent offices in the
The Wall Street Journal.Steve Jobs The Lesson I Learned from Steve JobsThe Wall Street Journal. - Marc BenioffI first met Steve Jobs in 1984 when Apple Inc. hired me as a summer intern. The fact that I’d landed this gig in the first place was something of a fluke; as a college student at the University of Southern
The Wall Street Journal.Technology Who Willed the Electric Car? China, and Here's WhyThe Wall Street Journal. - Lauren Silva LaughlinExxon Mobil Chief Executive Officer Darren Woods recently took a shot at electric vehicles. Speaking at the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative late last month, he quipped that their purpose could be defeated
The Wall Street Journal.U.S. Politics President Trump Launches Channel on Twitch Streaming PlatformThe Wall Street Journal. - Sarah E. NeedlemanPresident Trump has created a channel on Amazon.com Inc.’s Twitch, a sign he plans to use the live-streaming platform to promote his 2020 re-election campaign. A spokeswoman for Twitch, a platform popular
The Wall Street Journal.SAP SE SAP CEO Steps DownThe Wall Street Journal. - Asa FitchGerman business-software giant SAP SE Thursday said Chief Executive Bill McDermott is being replaced in the role with immediate effect. SAP named two executives, Jennifer Morgan and Christian Klein, to
The Wall Street Journal.Technology Live Stream of Germany Shooting Turns Spotlight to Amazon's TwitchThe Wall Street Journal. - Sebastian Herrera, Sarah E. NeedlemanAmazon.com Inc.’s Twitch has become a go-to place to watch people play videogames, but this week that same platform broadcast a horrific crime that highlights the challenge of preventing extremists from
The Wall Street Journal.Technology PC Shipments Rose on Software Upgrades, Looming TariffsThe Wall Street Journal. - Maria ArmentalPersonal-computer makers saw strong growth in third-quarter shipments as buyers rushed to upgrade machines to run Microsoft Corp.’s latest Windows software and dodge looming tariffs on imports from China
The Wall Street Journal.Technology Apple, Google Pull Hong Kong Protest Apps After China UproarThe Wall Street Journal. - Tripp Mickle, Jeff Horwitz, Yoko KubotaApple Inc. and Google both removed apps associated with Hong Kong’s antigovernment protests from their digital stores in recent days, thrusting the two Silicon Valley giants into a controversy engulfing
The Wall Street Journal.James Dyson Dyson Abandons Electric-Car RaceThe Wall Street Journal. - Parmy OlsonLONDON—There is one less company trying to build electric cars. Dyson Ltd., the British company best known for making high-end vacuum cleaners and hand dryers, is ending its effort to build an electric
The Wall Street Journal.U.S. Politics Political Campaigns Know Where You've Been. They're Tracking Your Phone.The Wall Street Journal. - Sam Schechner, Emily Glazer, Patience HagginWhen Donald Trump took the stage last month in Fayetteville, N.C., to support Republican candidate Dan Bishop in a special election, thousands of people showed up. Mr. Bishop was seeking their support.
The Wall Street Journal.Technology A Tech Couple's Whimsical Mansion on San Francisco's Gold Coast Asks $39 MillionThe Wall Street Journal. - Katherine ClarkeMichael Birch and Xochi Birch, a prominent couple in the San Francisco technology scene, are listing their whimsically decorated Gold Coast mansion for $39 million. If the property sells for that price,
The Wall Street Journal.Technology Doctors Look to Eye-Tracking to Improve CareThe Wall Street Journal. - David M. EwaltFor Pat Quinn, eye-tracking technology is a lifeline to the world. Mr. Quinn, who suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, is almost completely paralyzed. To speak, write, change the television
The Wall Street Journal.Helmets Why Smart Bike Helmets Are (Probably) SaferThe Wall Street Journal. - Ashley MateoCYCLISTS ARE RIDING into the future on smart bikes outfitted with pedal-assist motors, superpowered batteries, LED lights and Bluetooth controls. Why should what they wear to protect their heads be any
