Reinvigorating corporate culture and employee enthusiasm at Salesforce. com Inc. after nearly two years of remote work will involve the great outdoors as much as returning to an office. The software giant signed a multiyear booking agreement for a 75-acre retreat set among the redwoods in Scotts Valley, Calif., to create an employee work-and-wellness center […]
Twitter Inc. TWTR -3.34% on Thursday posted lower-than-expected profit as expenses climbed but said it largely dodged the impact of privacy changes that are hurting Facebook FB -3.74% parent Meta Platforms Inc. Twitter also announced a $4 billion stock buyback, its first since the company announced a $2 billion program in March 2020. The social-media […]
A still from Meta’s Super Bowl ad, “Old Friends, New Fun,” which the company released Thursday. Photo: Meta Platforms Inc. Meta Platforms Inc.’s Super Bowl ad will try to sell the promise of the metaverse, and the company’s virtual-reality headsets, with the help of an out-of-work animatronic singing dog. The commercial that the Facebook parent […]
The December disclosure of a security flaw in a widely used piece of logging software known as Log4j drew grave warnings from U.S. officials that the bug could open the door for a surge in cyberattacks. But vulnerable versions of the free tool continue to be downloaded at least tens of thousands of times each […]
SYDNEY—SpaceX, the space-exploration company founded by Elon Musk, is seeking to establish a communications bridge to Tonga after last month’s volcanic eruption and tsunami largely cut the Pacific nation off from the outside world, a senior Fijian lawmaker said. The disaster on Jan. 15 killed three people and severed Tonga’s undersea cable that provides high-speed […]
Microsoft Corp. MSFT 2.18% executives promised that the marketplace they are envisioning for videogames would operate by a set of open-market principles, part of a pitch to regulators around the world to approve its acquisition of gaming giant Activision Blizzard Inc. ATVI 1.58% The principles are a response to concerns raised by app developers and […]
For decades, America’s largest card network has been the exclusive electronic-payments provider at the world’s largest sporting event. At this year’s Beijing Games, however, Visa finds itself having to share the spotlight with China’s new digital currency, the e-CNY. China has been at the forefront of digitizing payments, thanks in large part to the popular […]
BOULDER, Colo.—For almost five years, an international consortium of scientists was chasing clouds, determined to solve a problem that bedeviled climate-change forecasts for a generation: How do these wisps of water vapor affect global warming? They reworked 2.1 million lines of supercomputer code used to explore the future of climate change, adding more-intricate equations for […]
Rocker Neil Young came across an NPR report on the morning of Jan. 24 that seemed like a fit for his Times-Contrarian online newspaper, which is housed on his website, the Neil Young Archives. It detailed an open letter to Spotify Technology SA, SPOT -1.67% published earlier in January, from teachers, scientists and medical professionals […]
The $75 billion deal that Phil Spencer engineered for Activision Blizzard Inc. is the biggest bet yet that games can go from a side hustle to a core business at the world’s most valuable software company. A Microsoft Corp. lifer and a lifelong gamer, Mr. Spencer has been the chief architect and evangelist for a […]
