Information-technology spending in Russia is expected to drop 39% this year as global business sanctions triggered by the invasion of Ukraine take their toll. On Thursday, the U.S. Senate voted 100-0 to strip Russia of favored trade status and back President Biden’s Russian oil ban. The growing list of sanctions imposed by the U.S., the […]
Wing is launching a drone-delivery service in the Dallas-Fort Worth area Thursday in what will be the Alphabet Inc. subsidiary’s largest U.S. rollout and its first drone initiative operated by a customer. Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc., Wing’s largest customer in the U.S., will stage deliveries from a store parking lot in the town of Little […]
WASHINGTON— Amazon. AMZN 2.32% com Inc. won dismissal on Friday of an antitrust lawsuit brought against it by the District of Columbia, which had alleged that the company harmed consumers by blocking sellers on its marketplace from offering better deals elsewhere. The lawsuit was tossed out by D.C. Superior Court Judge Hiram Puig-Lugo, according to […]
Porsche POAHY -0.99% and Apple Inc. AAPL 0.85% have held early discussions about potential joint projects, the sports-car maker’s chief executive said Friday. While Porsche boss Oliver Blume gave no details about the talks—even when pressed by reporters—his comment during the German company’s annual earnings call with journalists could rekindle longstanding speculation about a possible […]
Russia’s campaign to restrict access to Twitter, Facebook and other sources of uncensored information on its invasion of Ukraine has skipped one crucial platform: the social media and chat app Telegram. Anyone in Russia who wanted to follow Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s address to Congress on Wednesday could find it on Telegram, along with images […]
Joe Biden’s election as president seemed to herald better days in Washington for Amazon. AMZN 0.57% com Inc. and for Jay Carney, its top official in the capital. Mr. Carney, a senior aide to Mr. Biden when he was vice president in Barack Obama’s White House before joining Amazon, tweeted that “I am so proud […]
TikTok exploded as a social-media app with silly videos featuring lip-syncing, dance moves and practical jokes. Now some users are creating endless feeds of war memes and state propaganda that are influencing global perspectives on the conflict in Ukraine. That transformation presents the short-video app, whose parent is Chinese technology giant ByteDance Ltd., with one […]
Tesla Inc. TSLA -4.34% Chief Executive Elon Musk asked a federal judge on Tuesday to scrap a settlement he reached with securities regulators in 2018 that required some of his tweets be preapproved, a condition that has fomented an ongoing conflict with the government over whether he and Tesla TSLA -4.34% have followed the rule. […]
SEOUL—Wearing a dark suit and red tie, Yoon Suk-yeol, the main opposition party’s candidate for South Korean president, stared into the camera with a stern look in his eyes. He prepared to answer a question: If he had to save President Moon Jae-in or the ruling party’s nominee from drowning, whom would he pick? “I […]
In “The Ministry for the Future,” the 2020 climate-catastrophe novel by Kim Stanley Robinson, a new financial tool helps pull the world back from the edge of a global ecological meltdown: the carbon coin. Backed by the world’s central banks, this new currency is deployed around the globe to pay fossil-fuel companies and petrostates to […]
