Corporate Criticism of Trump's Travel Ban Moves Beyond Tech

Criticism of President Trump’s immigration order moved beyond Silicon Valley on Monday, with the heads of business giants including Ford, Coca-Cola and Goldman Sachs weighing in on travel restrictions.
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Sprint Narrows Its Loss

Sprint narrowed its loss in its third fiscal quarter as the wireless carrier continued to grow its customer base, and now expects to finish the year at the high end of its guidance.
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Nintendo's 'Super Mario Run' Scores Revenue, but CEO Wants More

Nintendo said its smartphone game “Super Mario Run” has brought in more than $50 million since going on sale in December, a performance analysts said was better than expected, although Nintendo’s chief executive wasn’t satisfied.
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Wal-Mart to Scrap Its Amazon Prime Rival

Wal-Mart is abandoning its effort to create a free shipping program designed to compete with Amazon.com’s Prime membership program. The service, called ShippingPass, offered free two-day shipping for customers that paid the $49 annual fee.
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Sony to Write Down Nearly $1 Billion on Movie Business

Sony said it would write down nearly $1 billion on its film and TV studio, primarily due to continuing declines in home entertainment spending on items like DVDs.
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Facebook Seeks Right to Challenge Search Warrants for Users' Accounts

The New York Court of Appeals is set to hear arguments Feb. 7 on whether Facebook can legally challenge search warrants issued for the accounts of its users.
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SoftBank Mulls Investment of Over $1 Billion in WeWork

SoftBank Group Corp. is weighing an investment of well over $1 billion in shared-office space company WeWork Cos., in what could be among the first deals from its new $100 billion technology fund, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Starbucks Unveils Voice Ordering for iPhone App, Amazon's Alexa

Starbucks Corp. announced two forms of voice ordering on Monday, on iPhones and on the talking speakers featuring Amazon.com’s Alexa assistant.
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Live Video Event: IPO Outlook in the Age of Unicorns

Will billion-dollar startups find a warmer reception in the IPO market in 2017? Join WSJ Pro VC online Tuesday at 2 p.m. Eastern for a live video discussion on the topic. Submit your questions and watch the event here.
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Mexico's VCs in Trump Era See Homegrown Investing as Job Numero Uno

Mexican investors say “America First” policies gaining attention in the U.S. may highlight local opportunity and add fuel to an already growing influence of domestic talent and capital flowing into companies targeting the Mexican market.
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NYSE to Win IPO Prize: Listing of Snap

Snap Inc. plans to list its highly anticipated initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange, in a big victory over Nasdaq.
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Microsoft Sets 2017 High With $17 Billion Bond Sale

Microsoft sold $17 billion of bonds, capping a busy month for corporate-debt issuance with the largest deal of the year.
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Amazon Is Working With Lawmakers to Counter Trump's Immigration Order

Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos said the e-commerce giant is working with lawmakers and state officials to explore legal options to counter President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration.
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GM-Honda Joint Venture to Make Fuel Cells in Michigan

General Motors and Honda Motor have formed a joint venture to build fuel cells for use in future vehicles, the latest auto makers to forge ahead on the pricey, emissions-free technology despite barriers to commercial success.
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Facebook Aims to Be More Essential With Password Recovery Tool

Facebook is unveiling new technology to let its 1.79 billion users reset passwords for other websites using its platform, an effort to further entrench the social network in people’s digital lives.
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Facebook Is Trying Everything to Re-Enter China---and It's Not Working

Since regulators blocked the service in 2009, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has hired well-connected executives, developed censorship tools and taken a “smog jog” in Beijing—but the company has made no visible headway.
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Masaya Nakamura, 'Father of Pac-Man,' Dies at 91

Masaya Nakamura, the “Father of Pac-Man” who founded the Japanese videogame company behind the hit creature-gobbling game, has died. He was 91.
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Snap Inc. Plans to List Shares on the NYSE

Snap Inc. plans to list its highly anticipated initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange, in a big competitive victory for the Big Board.
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Fitbit Warns of Revenue and Profit Misses, Will Cut Jobs

Fitbit Inc. braced investors for a sharp miss on its fourth-quarter revenue and said it would cut 6% of its workforce, signs that the wearables market continues to slow.
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Uber Rival Grab Hires Former Indonesia Police Chief

Singapore-based ride-hailing company GrabTaxi Holdings announced Monday that a former chief of Indonesia’s police has joined the company as an executive to help Grab comply with tough ride-hailing rules in Southeast Asia’s biggest economy.
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Robot Baristas Serve Up the Future of Coffee at Cafe X

Automation is eliminating jobs for factory workers and Uber drivers—will your morning fix soon come from a precision caffeine machine?
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Which Is Better in Class: Teacher or Machine?

‘Edtech’ is attracting investors, but some parents prefer traditional teaching methods.
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IKEA's 'Open Source' Sofa Invites Customization

As more people modify IKEA furniture for other uses, the Swedish company plans to roll out soon what it calls its first “open source” sofa—designed to be customized.
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Nintendo Earnings Preview: What to Watch

Nintendo Co. is scheduled to brief the press on its third-quarter earnings after the Tokyo market closes on Tuesday, followed by a corporate strategy meeting on Wednesday.
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Why Your Business Should Ditch Cash

Crime reduction is a key driver in the shift to a cashless economy, but tech is enabling more firms, big and small, to make the jump.
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Tech Executives React to Trump Immigration Order in Own Words

In company emails, interviews and posts published online, tech leaders framed the refugee ban as one at odds with a nation that welcomes foreigners and an industry that counts foreign-born executives in its upper ranks.
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One Google Employee on Trump Order: 'It's Turned My Life Upside Down'

Sanaz Ahari, an employee at Google, is 37 weeks pregnant. She was born in Iran but holds a green card. After the Trump order, she doesn’t know when she will next see her parents, who live in the Vancouver area.
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Silicon Valley Executives Criticize U.S. Travel Restrictions

Leaders from across the technology industry expressed concern about the effect of President Donald Trump’s immigration order on foreign nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries on their employees, with some executives saying the ban violated their personal and company principles.
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New Hotbed for Tech Startups: Europe

Europe’s entrepreneurs used to head for Silicon Valley; now, the money and opportunities are closer to home.
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For Apple's iPhone Sales, Size Matters

At a generally gloomy time for sales of Apple’s flagship iPhone, there’s a silver lining: Customers are willing to pay more for better features.
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Google Criticizes Impact on Staff of Trump Immigration Order

Google’s chief executive criticized President Donald Trump’s immigration order in an email to staff, saying the U.S. ban on foreign nationals from seven countries affects at least 187 Google employees.
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Parking Spot Shortage? Google Maps Now Lets You Know

A new feature on Google Maps tells you whether parking will be easy or limited at your destination.
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Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Opposes Donald Trump's Immigration Action

Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on Friday publicly opposed two executive orders signed by President Donald Trump aiming to curtail immigration and bolster border security, contrasting with the neutral stance the tech executive has taken since the election.
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LendingClub Chairman Launches New Fintech VC Fund

Nyca Partners, a venture-capital firm founded by veteran banker and LendingClub Chairman Hans Morris, has raised a new $125 million fund to invest in financial-technology startups.
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A New Computer as Beautiful as a Vintage Apple I

Encased in wood, the Volta V harks back to the very early days of Apple, when our desktops were more rough-hewn—and easier to upgrade.
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How to Unsend Emails... Before Regret Kicks In

Regret is a terrible feeling. It’s especially bad right after you’ve sent that impulsively passive-aggressive email to your boss.
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Facebook Lets You Lock Down Your Account With Physical Security Keys

Dongles, sold separately, provide an alternate way to use two-factor authentication, aka Login Approvals.
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Toshiba to Sell Part of Its Memory-Chip Business

Toshiba said it would put part of its semiconductor unit up for sale, seeking to stay afloat after a planned write-down of billions of dollars connected to its U.S. nuclear business.
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Toshiba to Sell Part of Its Chip Business

Toshiba said it would put part of its semiconductor unit up for sale, seeking to stay afloat after a planned write-down of billions of dollars connected to its U.S. nuclear business.
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China's Ant Financial, Owned by Trump Ally Jack Ma, Makes U.S. Play

At a time when globalization has increasingly been called into question, China’s biggest online payments company is seeking a foothold in the U.S. with a major acquisition.
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Toshiba to Spin Off Memory-Chip Unit

Toshiba will spin off its computer memory-chip unit at the end of March in an effort by the cash-strapped industrial conglomerate to raise fresh capital for the businesses that require large investments.
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Details Emerge About Jeffrey Katzenberg's New-Media Venture

A regulatory filing shows longtime Hollywood executive Jeffrey Katzenberg has raised nearly $600 million to invest in digital and technology ventures.
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Intel's Quarterly Profit Falls Despite Strong Sales Growth

The company invested heavily to maintain leadership in microprocessors for personal computers and for servers used in giant data centers.
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Starbucks Tempers Revenue Forecast

Starbucks Corp. said long lines at its coffee shops have hit business, and that the success of its mobile ordering app has simply shfited the lines from the cash register to the pick-up counter.
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Google Parent Alphabet Finds New Growth Beyond Search

Google parent Alphabet said fourth-quarter revenue increased nearly three times as fast as profit, as it cast about for new sources of growth beyond its traditional search advertising.
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PayPal Results Climb on Increased Customers, Transactions

PayPal Holdings Inc. said Thursday that revenue climbed 17% in the December quarter, spurred by an increasing number of customers and transactions.
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Tesla Sues Former Autopilot Director for Improper Recruiting

Tesla Motors is accusing the former director of its Autopilot program and the former tech guru behind Google’s self-driving car of improperly recruiting the auto maker’s engineers to create their own autonomous-car startup.
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Google Parent Alphabet Reports Disappointing Profit

Google parent Alphabet reported an 8.3% increase in fourth-quarter profit, but it still fell short of analysts’ expectations on a higher-than-expected tax adjustment.
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Intel Posts Stronger-Than-Expected Results

Intel’s fourth-quarter profit slipped 1.4%, despite robust sales of chips that drive the computers underpinning large internet providers and corporate operations, while sales of chips for PCs also rose.
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Microsoft's Profit Rises, Buoyed by Online Business

Microsoft posted gains in its web-based, on-demand computing business, emerging as a stiffer competitor to Amazon.com Inc.’s market-leading cloud unit.
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