To Tame Coronavirus, Mao-Style Social Control Blankets China
SHANGHAI — China has flooded cities and villages with battalions of neighborhood busybodies, uniformed volunteers and Communist Party representatives to carry out one of the...
Category: Business
Shuttered Stores, Fewer Tourists: Luxury Feels Coronavirus Effects
LONDON — Chinese tourists normally flock to Bond Street, home to some of the most expensive retail space in the world. They gather behind the...
Judge Halts Work on Microsoft’s JEDI Contract, a Victory for Amazon
A federal judge in Washington ordered Microsoft on Thursday to halt all work on a $10 billion cloud-computing contract for the Pentagon, in a victory...
Andy Rubin’s Start-Up, Essential Products, Shuts Down
SAN FRANCISCO — Essential Products, a consumer electronics start-up founded by the former Google executive Andy Rubin, said on Wednesday that it was ceasing operations....
T-Mobile-Sprint Deal, Affecting 100 Million Customers, Approved by Judge
A bigger-is-better mentality has swept the tech and media industries over the past 18 months, as companies have spent $200 billion on a series of...
Your Foam Coffee Cup Is Fighting for Its Life
MASON, Mich. — The Dart Container Corporation, by some measures, is an American success story. The family-owned business was co-founded in Michigan by a World...
In Amazon’s Bookstore, No Second Chances for the Third Reich
SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon is quietly canceling its Nazis. Over the past 18 months, the retailer has removed two books by David Duke, a former...
How a Vegan Ends Up With Leather in Her Portfolio
Investing well is hard enough, and introducing your personal values into the mix only compounds the confusion. What matters most? How can I have the...
An Algorithm That Grants Freedom, or Takes It Away
PHILADELPHIA — Darnell Gates sat at a long table in a downtown Philadelphia office building. He wore a black T-shirt with “California” in bright yellow...
Epoch Times, Punished by Facebook, Gets a New Megaphone on YouTube
SAN FRANCISCO — Late last summer, YouTube users began noticing a surge of ads for an obscure news outlet called The Epoch Times. One ad...