Chinese authorities banned ads on the Douyin app—which serves up 15-second videos—over an ad they said made light of a venerated Chinese soldier.

Microsoft is cutting prices on its Surface devices, introducing a $399 tablet to compete with Apple’s least-expensive iPads.

Tesla announced plans to build a factory in Shanghai, a move expected to boost sales in the world’s largest auto market but comes amid a broader U.S.-China trade dispute.

The European Union’s antitrust watchdog is expected to find Alphabet’s Google illegally abused the dominance of its Android operating system for mobile phones, issuing a multibillion-euro fine and ordering changes to the company’s Android-related business practices.

Microsoft is cutting prices on its Surface devices, introducing a $399 tablet to compete with Apple’s least-expensive iPads.

Tesla announced plans to build a factory in Shanghai, a move expected to boost sales in the world’s largest auto market but comes amid a broader trade dispute between the U.S. and China.

Uber Technologies has tapped Scott Schools, a former top official at the U.S. Justice Department, to be its first chief compliance officer, ahead of a highly anticipated initial public offering next year.

Microsoft is cutting prices on its Surface devices, introducing a $399 tablet to compete with Apple’s least-expensive iPads.

House lawmakers sent letters to the CEOs of Apple and Google parent Alphabet, seeking information about how they handle smartphone users’ personal data such as location information.

Xiaomi wants the world to believe it is the next big internet stock. But investors took a cautious view of that sales pitch.

Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi’s IPO—one of the largest by a tech company in years—closed with little fanfare Friday, and the shares fell in ‘gray-market’ trading, an ominous sign for its official debut next week.

Samsung Electronics estimates its second-quarter operating profit was up 5% from a year earlier, missing analyst estimates and ending its streak of record quarters at four.

After a historic rise in 2017, prices this year of two major types of memory chips—called NAND and DRAM—have fallen 37% and 16%, respectively, according to semiconductor sales tracker DRAMeXchange. The drop caused Samsung Electronics Co. to forecast lower-than-expected profit for the second quarter, and its shares slid 2.3% on Friday.

EU lawmakers rejected new copyright rules, instead opting for more debate, a victory for tech firms that are facing a broader European effort to rein them in on topics ranging from privacy to taxes.

Micron Technology, America’s largest memory-chip maker, is challenging a Chinese court decision that temporarily halted the sale of some of its products in the country.

The company forecasts second-quarter operating profit will grow 5%, though the result missed analyst estimates and would halt what had been four straight quarters of record earnings.

Stock markets in Europe and Asia edged down as spats between the U.S. and China related to trade and technology firms continued to dampen investor mood.

An email inbox is a vault of secrets. In recent years, millions of users have been giving out the combination.

A Chinese court temporarily stopped memory-chip maker Micron Technology from selling a range of products in China, two rival manufacturers said, escalating a battle over allegations of trade-secrets theft and patent infringement.

The debate over whether Google and Facebook are too big usually centers on whether they suppress competition for goods and services. A potentially more troubling possibility: that they sap competition for values and ideas.

Remember when phone calls meant people wanted to talk to you? When your phone rings these days, it’s often a robocall. Here’s what to do when you get one, and how to get fewer of them.

The SEC and FBI join the Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission in probing how the political analytics firm Cambridge Analytica purchased data on 87 million users of Facebook without their consent.

Software developers scan hundreds of millions of emails of users who sign up for email-based services. Disclosures are often buried in user agreements.

Software developers scan hundreds of millions of emails of users who sign up for email-based services. Disclosures are often buried in user agreements.

Ride-hailing firm Lyft said it agreed to purchase an urban bike-rental company recognizable by its curbside docking stations and sponsors like Ford Motor and Citigroup.

Dell Technologies has offered to buy shares that track its interest in software firm VMware, a move that would mark a re-emergence into the public markets for Dell.

The electric-car maker aims to increase its output of Model 3s to 6,000 a week by late next month, suggesting it expects no letup in its production pace fresh off of reaching its long-delayed 5,000-per-week milestone.

Software developers scan hundreds of millions of emails of users who sign up for email-based services. Disclosures are often buried in user agreements.

Amazon has infused Whole Foods with its efficient, data-driven ethos in the year since it bought the natural grocer. But not all Whole Foods employees and suppliers are happy about that.

You can ignore your phone while you are on vacation, but everyone will think you are just ignoring them. There is a simple solution: bring back the away message.

The acquisition of online startup PillPack will give Amazon insight into people’s prescriptions, putting it into the highly regulated realm of health information with more restrictions than it is accustomed to.

Tesla built its 5,000th Model 3 sedan in about a single week, reaching a long-delayed goal that should ease some scrutiny on the auto maker in its bid to become a mainstream provider of electric vehicles.

Facebook gave dozens of companies special access to user data, detailing for the first time a spate of deals that contrasted with previous statements that it restricted personal information to outsiders in 2015.

Trying to break into semiconductor markets, mainland companies are accused of poaching employees and stealing data. China watchers say the threat is growing and is also part of an effort to undermine a political rival.

Fourteen directors resigned from ZTE’s board as the Chinese telecom aims to get out from under U.S. penalties, but the changes may be less sweeping than they appear.