Nordic Choice Hotels, a chain with more than 200 hotels across Scandinavia and the Baltic countries, is still dealing with technology problems and the fallout from a data leak after a Dec. 1 ransomware attack. Immediately after the incident, the company shut down corporate computers, check-in desks and machines such as music systems, and disconnected […]
BEIJING—China’s car market snapped a three-year decline last year, helped by strong sales of electric vehicles, though the global chip shortage and Covid-19 outbreaks in the country disrupted some production. Sales of passenger cars in 2021 rose 4.4% from a year earlier to 20.1 million vehicles, the China Passenger Car Association said Tuesday. Helping drive […]
Intel Corp.’s new finance chief, David Zinsner, will play a critical role in steering the chip maker’s finances and allocating capital as the company embarks on a multiyear turnaround. David Zinsner will become Intel CFO next Monday. Photo: Intel Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel on Monday named Mr. Zinsner as its next chief financial officer. Mr. […]
Some rush to the website to play before others. Others have spent hours debating strategies with friends, family and strangers online. Some have gone to extreme lengths by building spreadsheets to analyze the best way to play. Sam Sheridan plays Wordle the moment a new game drops, at midnight while he’s in bed, “which probably […]
HONG KONG—Blocked by the U.S. from buying many of the chips it needs, Huawei Technologies Co. is stepping up investments in companies that are racing to build China’s semiconductor supply chain. The Chinese technology giant is investing in the companies through a fund that it launched in 2019, around the time Washington began putting export […]
Microsoft Corp.’s MSFT 0.23% augmented-reality team has lost around 100 people in the past year, many of them to Meta Platforms Inc., FB 1.92% said former employees of the software company and online job profiles, as the battle heats up for workers with skills to build the metaverse. Competitors have been snapping up people with […]
Discovery Inc. has taken a 10% stake in OpenAP, an ad-targeting group whose owners include several major television companies, executives involved said. OpenAP was founded in 2017 to develop tools that would make it easier for marketers to target ads across multiple TV networks in a way that is more specific and data-driven than traditional […]
SoftBank Group Corp. 9984 -2.35% is investing $146 million in Qraft Technologies Inc. to gain access to the money manager’s artificial-intelligence tools and help seed the startup’s growth. Qraft, which manages $1.7 billion for Asian banks and insurance companies and through its lineup of U.S.-listed exchange-traded funds, built a software platform that mines market data […]
WASHINGTON—Cyber Ninjas, the company hired to lead a Republican-ordered review of Maricopa County’s 2020 election results, said it was shutting down, citing mounting legal costs and debt among other factors. Previously a little-known cybersecurity firm, Cyber Ninjas became a central figure in an unusual review of the 2020 presidential results after Democrat Joe Biden won […]
The Future of Everything covers the innovation and technology transforming the way we live, work and play, with monthly issues on transportation, health, education and more. This month is Well-Being, online starting Jan. 6 and in print Jan. 13. Mitchell Tepper has a motto: “You don’t have to break your neck to be a great […]
