Alphabet posted surging profits as advertisers kept swarming to the search giant amid a global debate about internet privacy that threatens to affect its main revenue generator.

Sales kept soaring at Google parent Alphabet, the dominant player in online ads, which reported first-quarter profit surged. The company also got an earnings boost from Uber.

Median pay at Amazon reveals the predominantly blue-collar nature of its workforce, which sets it apart from tech peers Facebook, Apple and Google-parent Alphabet.

European Union antitrust authorities opened a full probe into Apple’s proposed acquisition of the popular song-recognition app Shazam on concerns it could reduce choice for users of music-streaming services.

Qualcomm stepped into the escalating spat between the U.S. and China. Now it is grappling with the fallout.

Chinese President Xi Jinping outlined an updated vision for China’s future as an internet and technology power, pledging more state support for sectors caught in the cross-hairs of a trade fight with the U.S.

The U.S. Justice Department is investigating whether U.S. wireless carriers and an industry trade group teamed up to make it harder for cellphone subscribers to switch providers.

China intensified the tit-for-tat trade battle with the U.S., with antitrust regulators warning that they have “hard to resolve” concerns about Qualcomm’s planned $44 billion purchase of NXP Semiconductors, potentially creating a stumbling block for the deal.

More than 100 million people globally are now paying for Amazon Prime, a sign of how Amazon.com Inc. has used the service to evolve from an online marketplace that struggled with profitability into an e-commerce powerhouse.

Best Buy will sell Amazon-powered TVs in its stores and on its website, and also become a merchant on Amazon’s website, where it will sell these TV sets exclusively.

One of China’s most successful global companies has been punished by the U.S. government. That means trouble for its suppliers too.

Huawei said it plans to refocus on existing markets, following a series of setbacks in the U.S. and as the technology industry gets caught up in the spiraling trade spat between Washington and Beijing.

The uproar over how Facebook Inc. allowed a Cambridge University researcher to improperly harvest data on 87 million users has prompted a public clash between the social network and the 800-year-old institution.

Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg told Congress you have ‘full access’ to the information the social network gathers about you, but it keeps some personal data that you can’t control.

Tesla’s public feud with a top safety investigator is highly unusual in business, but classic Elon Musk.

Small and midsize merchants selling their wares through Amazon and others like it could be shaken up by a Supreme Court case that may subject consumers on these marketplaces to state sales taxes they have largely avoided until now.

Comcast will begin bundling Netflix with plans for cable TV, phone and internet starting this month. The integration effectively allows customers to pay for both Netflix and Comcast services on one bill, through Comcast.

For decades, parents worried videogames would transform their children into zombies spending countless hours alone. But online multiplayer videogames allow teens and tweens to socialize while playing. “It’s better to hear him communicating than just dead silence,” one mother said.

China is slowing reviews of multibillion-dollar takeover deals being pursued by Qualcomm and Bain Capital, people familiar with the matter say, as U.S.-China trade tensions escalate.

President Trump’s ordered review of the Postal Service’s finances will likely show that Amazon.com isn’t the only one getting a good deal on package deliveries: FedEx and UPS get comparable rates on so-called last-mile parcel delivery.

An exclusive WSJ analysis shows how venture-capital investment from Asia is skyrocketing, threatening to shift power over the world’s innovation away from the U.S. The surge positions Asian investors to win stakes in markets that Western companies covet, or that have national security implications.

The Defense Department will release a revised list of requirements in the coming days for a hotly contested, multibillion-dollar contract to move the Pentagon’s data into the cloud, and it says it won’t give in on a central demand: awarding the business to a single winner.

Broadcom’s board authorized buying back up to $12 billion in shares over the next 18 months, a move that comes after its deal to take over Qualcomm Inc. fell apart.

An unusual public feud between Tesla and federal accident investigators escalated over the examination of a fatal car crash, sidelining the auto maker from an official probe concerning its semiautonomous driving system.

Facebook doesn’t expect the recent uproar over its users’ digital privacy to affect sales significantly, a top advertising executive for the global social-media platform says.

Tesla on Wednesday defended its semiautonomous Autopilot system in the wake of a fatal crash last month, blaming the incident on the driver after his family hired a lawyer to explore legal options.

Cambridge Analytica’s acting Chief Executive Alex Tayler told the company’s leadership Wednesday that Julian Wheatland, the chairman of Cambridge Analytica’s British affiliate, would take over as the company’s next chief executive, according to people familiar with the matter.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg spent two days on Capitol Hill seeking to placate lawmakers by saying he would be open to some sort of regulation to protect the privacy of users on his social-media platform.

Aetion Inc. has raised $36 million to back its software platform that collects and analyzes multiple data sources to measure real-world evidence of which medicines work best

The former HP executive is taking meat processing giant from analog to digital

Techies turn to puns, historical references in desperate efforts to devise standout monikers; the problem with Badlock

Apple Inc. tapped Oliver Schusser, the head of its European music and content operations, to lead Apple Music world-wide, a role of growing importance as the tech giant aims to boost its services revenue amid slower iPhone unit sales.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg faced a second, more combative congressional committee, where lawmakers criticized the company’s privacy practices and ramped up calls for regulating internet firms’ use of personal data.

Lawmakers grilled Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg over the company’s handling of user privacy while also signaling they were prepared to embark on a new era of regulation for big tech companies.

Ant Financial, carved out of Mr. Ma’s e-commerce giant Alibaba seven years ago, is preparing to raise $9 billion in a private funding round, up from a previous target of $5 billion.