The European Union’s recent $270 million fine against WhatsApp was held up for months by disagreements among national authorities, ratcheting up tensions over how to enforce the bloc’s privacy rules. The varied approaches to policing the EU’s strict General Data Protection Regulation are fueling calls to redesign how national authorities from the 27 EU countries […]
Several top executives at Lordstown Motors Corp. RIDE -1.79% sold off chunks of stock in the electric-truck startup ahead of reporting financial results, according to regulatory filings disclosing the transactions. Securities lawyers and accountants say such trades raise questions about the company’s internal controls, especially in light of its recent troubles. In all, five top […]
The global chip shortage is pushing up prices of items such as laptops and printers and is threatening to do the same to other top-selling devices including smartphones. Price increases are snowballing their way through suppliers and key materials in chip making as the industry rushes to meet rising demand and plug supply holes. As […]
The company makes almost all of the world’s most sophisticated chips, and many of the simpler ones, too. They’re in billions of products with built-in electronics, including iPhones, personal computers and cars—all without any obvious sign they came from TSMC, which does the manufacturing for better-known companies that design them, like Apple Inc. and Qualcomm […]
Your next laptop will be like a smartphone—only bigger, more powerful and more capable. It’s a reversal of almost a decade of trends in mobile computing, a decade that saw our phones get ever faster while our laptops and other PCs felt like they just wheezed along. For everyday tasks both at home and at […]
Ireland’s healthcare service is still slowly restoring its technology systems five weeks after suffering a ransomware attack, highlighting the painful process of bringing back online thousands of damaged computers. Two weeks ago, some of the technology systems in Children’s Health Ireland’s three hospitals were restored but are now operating more slowly than before, said Eilish […]
The strongest argument against cryptocurrencies used to be that they had yet to show they were much good for anything. Now the strongest argument against them may be that they have become far too good at one thing: enabling crime. Not long after the first of the private digital currencies, bitcoin, launched in 2009, crooks […]
Vacation-rental brands are jostling to persuade owners to list homes on their sites as properties are in short supply in certain outdoor destinations. Sites such as Airbnb Inc. ABNB 1.21% and Expedia Group Inc.’s EXPE -1.80% Vrbo have rolled out features designed to make it easier to become a host. Demand for homes near beaches, […]
Selling things online is easier than ever. Standing out to shoppers is getting harder. Kevin Stecko has spent more than two decades selling nostalgic apparel emblazoned with He-Man, ThunderCats and more online at 80sTees.com. But lately, he said, some customers seem to have a hard time finding him. In Google searches for terms like “He-Man […]
WeWork founder Adam Neumann is in contract to buy adjacent properties at Miami Beach’s Bal Harbour Yacht Club marina for $44 million. Adam Neumann Photo: Getty Images for WeWork Newsletter Sign-up Real Estate From aspirational residences to major commercial deals. The off-market deal includes two parcels totaling 50,000 square feet and multiple slips in the […]
