Apple Inc. gets its turn this week to mount a courtroom defense against Epic Games Inc.’s antitrust claims, preparing to bring in its most powerful spokesman: Tim Cook. Mr. Cook, a guarded chief executive who is used to carefully orchestrated public appearances, is set to testify in a trial that, regardless of the verdict, could […]
Microsoft Corp. board members decided that Bill Gates needed to step down from its board in 2020 as they pursued an investigation into the billionaire’s prior romantic relationship with a female Microsoft employee that was deemed inappropriate, people familiar with the matter said. Members of the board tasked with the matter hired a law firm […]
Vistra Corp. owns 36 natural-gas power plants, one of America’s largest fleets. It doesn’t plan to buy or build any more. Instead, Vistra intends to invest more than $1 billion in solar farms and battery storage units in Texas and California as it tries to transform its business to survive in an electricity industry being […]
Wind turbines have become bigger, more powerful, and more cost-efficient to operate in recent decades. A key improvement has been modern blades that are far more sophisticated in design, from aerodynamic properties to materials. This has enabled a variety of other improvements to the turbine, including greater size and more height (which means the turbine […]
Google GOOG -0.77% Photos had me from the start with a killer feature: free, unlimited photo and video backup. The caveat? It compressed image files larger than 16 megapixels. I knew, when the service launched in 2015, that the perk couldn’t last forever. Millions of people dumping all their snapshots into the cloud? It wasn’t […]
The criminal group linked to a cyberattack that disrupted gasoline delivery across parts of the southeastern U.S. this week has told hacking associates that it is shutting down, according to security research firms. A website operated by ransomware group DarkSide, which U.S. officials have said they believe originates in Eastern Europe, has been down since […]
Donald Trump, sidelined by Twitter Inc. and Facebook Inc., has been talking with numerous platforms as he seeks a new online megaphone. Jeff Brain, the chief executive of CloutHub, a fledgling social media network that has become popular with conservatives, thinks his company fits the bill. He took a trip to Mar-a-Lago last month and […]
Facebook Inc. FB 3.50% lost a bid to block a European Union privacy decision that could suspend its ability to send information about European users to U.S. computer servers, opening a pathway toward a precedent-setting interruption of its data flows. Ireland’s High Court dismissed Friday all of Facebook’s procedural complaints about a preliminary decision on […]
The retail and tech giant said the new roles—representing nearly 8% of its U.S. workforce—are offering average pay of $17 an hour, an increase over the company’s typical starting wage of $15 an hour. The company in April said it was raising wages for more than 500,000 hourly employees by between 50 cents and $3 […]
Tesla Inc. TSLA 3.16% Chief Executive Elon Musk said the company has suspended accepting bitcoin as payment for its vehicles. “We are concerned about rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels for Bitcoin mining and transactions, especially coal,” Mr. Musk said Wednesday on Twitter. Tesla earlier this year began to accept the cryptocurrency as payment for products sold […]
