Several investment and technology firms are exploring a potential deal for the U.S. operations of TikTok, which is facing a Trump administration ban, but each would have to surmount hurdles at least as high as the Chinese platform’s main suitor, Microsoft.
Facebook’s hottest property has cloned numerous features from trendy, fast-growing social-media apps—none more intensely than Snapchat. With the launch of Instagram Reels, it’s TikTok’s turn.11
If the Trump ban comes to pass, advertisers might move to other, newer platforms. But right now, they’re not canceling their TikTok ads.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has vaulted into an elite tier of military suppliers, winning a multibillion-dollar contract that makes it one of the Pentagon’s two primary satellite-launch providers through most of the decade.2
Autonomous-vehicle road testing has skidded to a halt in the U.S. amid the Covid-19 pandemic. But China’s startups have pushed ahead by more than doubling the number of self-driving car projects, with a boost from the country’s 5G network.
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Nikola says it secured an order to make at least 2,500 electric garbage trucks for refuse giant Republic Services, fulfilling one of the electric-vehicle startup’s three major business goals for the year.
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Simon Property Group has been in talks with Amazon to convert some Sears and J.C. Penney stores into Amazon fulfillment centers.
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Samsung’s powerful, expensive Galaxy Note smartphone is a tougher sell now that we’re spending so much more time on tablets and laptops.
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Samsung’s latest smartphone is great when you need on-the-go computing power. Just one little problem: No one is going anywhere.
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Early childhood development experts and robotics engineers are working together to create robots aimed at helping young children regulate their emotions and develop social and emotional skills at home.
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You don’t need to spend a thousand dollars on a premium smartphone. You can get the same features by paying half as much, or less.
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Digital media consumption has risen 25% over the months of the pandemic, says WSJ Leadership Expert Michael J. Wolf.
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As batteries capable of powering buildings get bigger and cheaper, businesses are increasingly looking to install them to gain more control over their electricity costs.
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A small U.S. company with ties to the U.S. defense and intelligence communities has embedded its software in numerous mobile apps, allowing it to track the movements of hundreds of millions of mobile phones world-wide.
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