An unlikely triumvirate of Silicon Valley insiders is holding the tech industry accountable on privacy and addiction. Yesterday, they scored a major victory in California, where legislators passed a sweeping data-privacy law.

Ride-hailing firm Lyft has raised new capital that doubles its valuation from last year to $15.1 billion and gives it more firepower as bigger rival Uber tracks toward an IPO.

Google is trying to quell the debates roiling its workforce by setting new internal rules designed to limit offensive language and ad hominem attacks.

Facebook’s internal probe into potential misuse of user data is hitting fundamental roadblocks: The company can’t track where much of the data went after it left the platform or determine where it is now.

American companies are bracing for new, tougher White House rules on exports that could cover broad swaths of technology, raising the stakes in an already heated U.S. trade battle with China.

President Trump, already embroiled in a trade battle with China, plans to ratchet commercial tensions higher by barring many Chinese firms from investing in U.S. technology and by blocking more technology exports to Beijing.

Fast-growing Chinese technology startup Meituan-Dianping applied to list in Hong Kong and seeks to raise billions of dollars to pay for its growth strategy.

You want to choose your streaming service carefully because whichever you pick will take over your music.

Uber has spent much of the past year repenting for a string of scandals. Now the company must prove it has changed—or risk being locked out of one of its largest markets.

Police must get a search warrant before obtaining data showing the location of cellphone users, the Supreme Court ruled, the third in a string of decisions that limit law enforcement’s access to the most intimate details of citizens’ digital lives.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling enables states to collect sales tax from all online purchases, eliminating the advantage of buying some big-ticket items from websites like Amazon.com.

The company has built a huge presence in the nation’s capital, spending millions to build an army of lobbyists for its multiple businesses and winning billions in contracts from the government. With that comes political risk, not least from the White House.

The service, tentatively named WatchTV, aims to use a “skinny bundle” of channels to recapture some of the millions of cord-cutters who dropped cable and satellite television.

Facial-recognition technology enables governments and private enterprise to track citizens anywhere there is a camera, even if they’re not carrying any devices. It’s a stark example of a technology that is being deployed faster than society and the law can adopt new norms and rules, writes Christopher Mims.

States have the authority to require online retailers to collect sales taxes, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday, erasing a price advantage internet merchants have had in wooing consumers away from real-world stores.

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich resigned after the company determined he violated company policy by having a past, consensual relationship with an Intel employee.

Verizon Communications, AT&T and Sprint pledged to stop sharing customer locations with two data brokers after at least one company revealed individuals’ whereabouts without their consent.

ZTE lost a skirmish with U.S. lawmakers when the Senate passed legislation that would reinstate a ban on sales of U.S. components to the Chinese telecommunications company.

Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi postponed a widely anticipated share sale in mainland China, saying it would proceed first with an initial public offering in Hong Kong in the coming weeks.

With U.S. midterm elections approaching, Russian trolls found ways to remain active on Twitter well into 2018 trying to rile up the American electorate, a Wall Street Journal analysis found.

Apple was punished in Australia for refusing to offer free fixes for iPhones and iPads that were previously serviced by non-Apple stores, the latest episode in a global dispute between companies and consumers about the right to repair.

The Supreme Court announced it will hear an Apple appeal challenging the propriety of a lawsuit brought by consumers who allege that the company illegally monopolized the sale of iPhone apps.

iPhone users who call 911 will automatically send location data to emergency call centers, the result of a partnership between Apple Inc. and startup RapidSOS that addresses a source of first-responder delays.

Google’s $550 million investment in JD.com will deepen its ties with China and strengthen its foothold in online shopping.

Goldman Sachs bankers have quietly been moonlighting as venture capitalists, investing early in startups like Uber, Spotify, Dropbox and Square and amassing a multimillion-dollar portfolio.

Tesla is growing faster than any other auto maker—just not always in ways stockholders would want. The company’s debt has surged just as fast as sales, while profits remain elusive.

The new version of Microsoft Office is playing catch-up to Google Docs, with cleaner design, faster apps and smarter features, but in some ways it is still stuck in the 1990s.

The U.S. semiconductor industry bristled at President Donald Trump’s plan to impose tariffs on about $50 billion of Chinese goods, arguing they will hurt American business and make the country less competitive.

Apple is developing production plans for its next iPhones that stress cheaper liquid-crystal displays more than analysts had expected, showing consumers’ sensitivity to the price of smartphones.

Time, money and potential lost opportunities are at stake as finalist cities and states compete ferociously to win Amazon’s $5 billion second headquarters.

SoftBank Group Corp. is in discussions to invest another giant slug of capital in WeWork Cos., with a potential deal that would value the shared-office company at $35 billion to $40 billion, people familiar with the matter said.

Snapchat is opening its platform to outside developers in a push for growth that will also test its commitment to privacy.

As efficient mobile processors overtake their laptop-powering counterparts, Apple could switch MacBooks over to its own custom chips.

Facebook’s top policy and communications executive, Elliot Schrage, is stepping down after a decade at the social-media giant.

GrayKey, a $15,000 iPhone-unlocking box sold to police and other U.S. authorities by Atlanta startup Grayshift, is in heavy use with some forensic law-enforcement authorities, prompting Apple to punch back.