Twitter Teams Up With Bloomberg

Twitter is joining forces with Bloomberg to create a service that will stream news produced solely for the social-media company 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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Colleges Rush to Ramp Up Online Classes

Nonprofit and public universities are in a race to expand enrollment—and boost revenues—with a new wave of web-based courses targeting working adults.
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As Retailers Race to Close Stores, a Web Startup Is Opening Them

While many retailers are scrambling to close storefronts, one internet upstart is opening them—but for just a few months at a time.
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Hackers Ran Through Holes in Swift's Network

Payment-transfer network left banks largely responsible for their own cyberdefense; old passwords at Bangladesh’s central bank
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Apple's Cash Hoard Set to Top $250 Billion

Apple likely will report Tuesday that its cash hoard has topped a quarter of a trillion dollars—an unrivalled milestone that could ratchet up pressure on the tech giant to make splashier acquisitions or dole out more money to shareholders.
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Musk, Zuckerberg, Nadella: CEOs to Watch This Week

The chiefs of Tesla, Facebook and Microsoft, as well as food giant Mondelez’s Irene Rosenfeld, will be providing insights into their businesses and industries in the week ahead.
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Elon Musk, Satya Nadella, Irene Rosenfeld, Mark Zuckerberg: People to Watch

These company CEOs will be providing insights into their businesses and industries in the week ahead.
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Google CEO Tops Other Alphabet Execs With $200 Million Pay

Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai’s pay package doubled to $200 million last year, making him the highest paid executive at parent company Alphabet Inc., according to a regulatory filing Friday.
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Elon Musk's Latest Dream: Underground Roadways

The chef executive of Tesla Inc. touted ambitious plans Friday, including an underground roadway accessed by elevators, more giant battery factories and an electric semi truck.
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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Earned $27.4 Million Last Year

Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Marissa Mayer’s compensation totaled $27.4 million last year, a package mostly unaffected by a deal to sell Yahoo’s core business to Verizon Communications Inc. or two large security breaches that nearly scuttled the acquisition.
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Nintendo to Launch New 2DS XL Handheld Game Device in July

Nintendo Co. said Friday it will launch an updated version of its popular 2DS hand-held game device in July.
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SoftBank Set to Invest Over $1.5 Billion in India's Paytm

The deal will give SoftBank Group a 20% stake in Paytm’s parent company One97 Communications, marking the Japanese conglomerate’s single largest investment in an Indian tech firm.
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Didi, China's Uber, Raises $5.5 Billion

China’s Didi Chuxing Technology said it raised $5.5 billion in a new funding round, valuing the ride-hailing company at more than $50 billion.
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Qualcomm Warns of Lower Profit as Apple Dispute Bites

Qualcomm slashed its profit forecast, saying it no longer expects any patent-licensing revenue from the iPhone in the current quarter as a result of its increasingly bitter legal battle with Apple.
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Alphabet, Amazon Extend Earnings Boom

Amazon and Google parent Alphabet reported booming quarterly sales and profits, showing that the tech giants continue to extend their dominance and shuck off concerns that might have dampened growth.
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Tech's Titans Go From Big to Bigger

The newfound prominence of big tech companies now can be chalked up to a few factors.
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Uber's Self-Driving Car Chief Steps Aside

Anthony Levandowski, the man at the center of Uber Technologies Inc.’s legal spat with rival Alphabet Inc. over allegedly stolen self-driving car technology, is stepping aside as chief of the high-profile project.
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Microsoft's Office 365, Cloud Businesses Power Earnings

The Azure business again posted torrid growth as corporate customers adopt the cloud service to handle larger pieces of their computing operations
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Amazon Posts Bigger-Than-Expected Increase in Profit

Amazon.com posted a 41% rise in first-quarter profit, even as the company is spending heavily on everything from international expansion to video content. Shares climbed 4% after hours as the results beat Wall Street estimates.
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Google Parent Alphabet's Revenue Continues to March Higher

Google parent Alphabet Inc. posted a sharp increase in first-quarter revenue, continuing a trend of sharp growth seemingly unscathed by boycotts from some of its major advertisers.
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Verizon Invests in Self-Driving Car Startup Renovo

Verizon has invested in Renovo Auto, an autonomous-vehicle tech startup best known for turning a vintage DeLorean into a self-driving car.
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Uber Interviews Heavyweights for a Crucial Job: Handling Travis Kalanick

The ride-sharing giant has approached current or former officials from companies including Disney, Wal-Mart and CVS in a bid to revamp operations and bring discipline to its culture.
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Working From Home? Real-Estate Developers Are Here to Help

To attract affluent professionals with a mobile lifestyle, architects and developers are adding high-tech communal work spaces and flex rooms to their designs.
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Samsung, Facing Calls for a Shake-Up, Offers 'Plan B'

Samsung Electronics surprised investors and South Korean lawmakers by saying the conglomerate would cancel some $35 billion in legacy treasury shares and forgo restructuring into a holding company.
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Venture-Capital Quandary: Too Much Money Chasing Too Few Ideas

After a frenzied 2015, funding for startups in China was expected to enter what industry insiders called “deep winter”—but the venture-capital industry is instead suffering a different headache: too much money, too few prospects.
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Trump Tax Cuts Don't Solve Tech's Massive Overseas-Cash Problem

The key issue for the biggest names in tech, the one-time tax rate on stockpiles of cash stashed overseas, remained unanswered by the president’s tax plan announced Wednesday.
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Nokia, Onetime Cell-Phone Champ, Turns to Bathroom Scales

Nokia is attempting a consumer-electronics comeback. Believing its consumer brand still carries cachet, Nokia is jumping back into the gadgets business.
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Nintendo Has Bright Outlook on Expectations for Switch

Nintendo is forecasting that strong sales of its handheld-hybrid Switch console will lift profits to seven-year highs.
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Hedge Fund Coatue Bets on Data Science

Hedge fund Coatue Management showed that “big data” is both an investor tool and an investment target with its $27 million funding round for Domino Data Lab.
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Nokia Pegs Comeback to New Gadgets

Nokia is attempting a consumer-electronics comeback. Believing its consumer brand still carries cachet, Nokia is jumping back into the gadgets business.
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Nintendo Offers Bright Outlook on Expectations for Switch

Nintendo is forecasting that strong sales of its handheld-hybrid Switch console will lift profits to seven-year highs.
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Net Combatants: Groups Line Up for Net Neutrality Fight

There is nothing quite like a fight over the internet. The Federal Communications Commission, which regulates telecommunications firms, is an independent agency, but that doesn’t insulate it from public pressure or lobbying by interest groups and industries.
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Samsung Says It Won't Become a Holding Company

Samsung said it won’t adopt a holding-company structure, putting an end to a monthslong corporate-governance review.
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PayPal Posts Increased Profit, Revenue

PayPal Holdings Inc. reported strong first-quarter revenue and usage growth on Wednesday along with plans to buy back as much as $5 billion worth of its own stock.
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Samsung Notches Highest Quarterly Profit in Three Years

Samsung’s flourishing components business helped the South Korean tech giant notch up its highest quarterly profit in more than three years.
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Online, Under Armour Spreads Itself Thin

New research published this month shows Under Armour is selling many items, particularly premium footwear like its Steph Curry basketball shoes, at multiple retailers, a level of overlap that could push prices lower and confuse shoppers in an already competitive market.
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FCC Chairman Outlines Net-Neutrality Rollback

A top federal regulator proposed to roll back Obama-era rules governing how broadband providers treat traffic on their networks, touching off a fierce political fight with far-reaching implications for tech and telecom companies and internet users.
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Microsoft Earnings: What to Expect

Investors will look for further growth in Microsoft’s cloud-computing business when the company reports earnings after the market closes Thursday.
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Amazon Echo Targets Age-Old Question: Does This Look Good on Me?

Amazon.com, seeking a bigger slice of the clothing market, is casting itself as a style adviser with its latest Echo device. The internet-connected speaker includes a camera, enabling consumers to take videos and photos of their outfits and compare them.
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Regulator Outlines Net-Neutrality Rollback

A top federal regulator proposed rolling back Obama-era net neutrality rules, proposing a new rule-making proceeding to reverse the 2015 rule that reclassified internet providers as common carriers, subjecting them to utility-style FCC oversight.
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Twitter Revenue Slides for First Time

Twitter said 9 million new monthly-active users joined its network in the first quarter but revenue fell for the first time since the company went public, raising questions about how it is going to hit its goal of becoming profitable this year.
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How Evil Is Silicon Valley?

The film “The Circle” zeroes in on the evils that ensue when tech companies inadvertently create a surveillance society—and all of us smartphone addicts willingly help, Geoffrey A. Fowler writes.
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In the Chips: Tech's Sleeping Giant Becomes a $352 Billion Cash Cow

The proliferation of connected devices and big data is handing new clout to chip makers. The result is an unprecedented semiconductor boom, as a flood of demand pushes up prices and gives an advantage to firms that can secure huge quantities of the must-have components.
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Yahoo's Marissa Mayer to Reap $187 Million After Verizon Deal

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is set to reap some $187 million from her shareholdings as a result of the internet company’s sale of its core business to Verizon.
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Twitter Revenue Slides for First Time Ever

Twitter reported its first quarterly decline in revenue since going public, highlighting the stagnation the social-media company is battling. Still, results weren’t as bad as the market had expected, vaulting shares 11%.
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Tencent Expands Its Cloud-Computing Services in U.S.

Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings opened its first data center in Silicon Valley this week, expanding cloud computing services into the U.S. even as American companies complain they face growing restrictions when doing the same in China.
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Tech Firms, Cable Companies Take Sides in Net-Neutrality Battle

The war over net neutrality is heating up in anticipation of a top regulator’s announcement Wednesday, with hundreds of tech startups urging preservation of existing rules and small cable companies pleading for a rollback.
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Palantir Pays $1.7 Million to Settle Discrimination Suit

Palantir Technologies has agreed to pay $1.7 million to settle a Labor Department lawsuit alleging that the data-mining firm discriminated against Asians in hiring.
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Yahoo's Marissa Mayer to Make $187 Million After Verizon Deal

Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer is set to make some $187 million in the wake of the internet company’s sale of its core business to Verizon Communications, according to securities filings.
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Twitter Earnings: What to Watch

Twitter Inc. is scheduled to report first-quarter results before the market opens on Wednesday. Here are the key points to watch.
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