Articles from www.wsj.com

Articles from www.wsj.com

Former CEO of digital pharma ad company Outcome Health is sentenced to seven and a half years in prison, after being found guilty of a ~$1B fraud in April 2023 (www.wsj.com)
2024-6-27

Activist investor Jana Partners announces an investment in Rapid7; sources say Jana plans to push the cybersecurity company to sell itself (www.wsj.com)
2024-6-27

Some CIOs say getting full value out of AI tools like Copilot for Microsoft 365 requires heavy lifting, as enterprise data isn't always accurate and up-to-date (www.wsj.com)
2024-6-26 Microsoft AI

Stability AI says it closed a new funding round; sources: investors committed $80M to take over the company, and some suppliers have forgiven debt obligations (www.wsj.com)
2024-6-26 AI

Food delivery apps are contending with plunging orders and frustrated drivers, after raising fees in NYC and Seattle due to wage-increase laws for gig workers (www.wsj.com)
2024-6-24 Seattle

Sources: Meta has held discussions with Apple to integrate its AI model into Apple Intelligence; Anthropic and Perplexity also discussed integrations with Apple (www.wsj.com)
2024-6-23 AI Apple Intelligence

Research: the number of freelance jobs on platforms like Upwork, in areas where generative AI excels, have dropped by as much as 21% since ChatGPT's debut (www.wsj.com)
2024-6-22 AI Freelance Upwork

Tests show Instagram continues to recommend sexual videos to accounts with ages listed as 13; Snapchat and TikTok did not produce the same sexualized content (www.wsj.com)
2024-6-20 Snapchat Instagram

Sources: Apple held talks with Baidu, Alibaba, Baichuan AI, and others to help offer Apple Intelligence in China as ChatGPT isn't available in the country (www.wsj.com)
2024-6-20 China Alibaba AI Apple Intelligence

On its Korean website, Samsung says its new Snapdragon-powered Galaxy Book 4 Edge is not compatible with or cannot install some Adobe apps, Fortnite, and more (www.wsj.com)
2024-6-19 Korea Samsung Adobe

As Nvidia passes Microsoft's market cap, John Chambers, who was the CEO when Cisco passed Microsoft during the dot-com boom, says the situation now is different (www.wsj.com)
2024-6-19 Microsoft Nvidia Cisco

Fengate Asset Management acquires over two-thirds stake in eStruxture, which operates data centers in 15 locations in four Canadian cities, in a $1.3B deal (www.wsj.com)
2024-6-19 Canada Asset

Maryland-based Huntress, an SMB-focused managed security platform, raised a $150M Series D led by Kleiner Perkins, Meritech, and Sapphire at a $1.5B+ valuation (www.wsj.com)
2024-6-18

Some Google users, frustrated by the results, turn to Reddit as a search alternative; a weeklong test finds Reddit is best for product recommendations and more (www.wsj.com)
2024-6-18 Google Reddit

Social media creators say earning a decent, reliable income is getting harder, as platforms pay less for popular posts and brands get pickier about partnerships (www.wsj.com)
2024-6-18

Sources: Wells Fargo's credit card with fintech startup Bilt, rewarding rent payments and gaining 1M+ signups in 18 months, costs the bank up to $10M per month (www.wsj.com)
2024-6-17 Fintech Startup Credit Card

Sources: Wells Fargo's credit card with fintech startup Bilt, which gets points on rent payments and saw 1M+ signups in 18 months, costs the bank up to $10M/mo. (www.wsj.com)
2024-6-17 Fintech Startup Credit Card

How Duolingo uses streaks and notifications to keep users coming back to the app; 5M of Duolingo's 30M+ DAUs have one year streaks and 70% have weeklong streaks (www.wsj.com)
2024-6-16

US authorities arrest and charge the founder and the head doctor of telehealth company Done Global for an alleged scheme to profit from Adderall prescriptions (www.wsj.com)
2024-6-14

A look at Satya Nadella's AI efforts; source: some future Microsoft AI products may be switched from OpenAI tech to the model being developed by Suleyman's team (www.wsj.com)
2024-6-13 Microsoft AI

Sources and documents detail how Elon Musk blurred boundaries with female employees at SpaceX, including having sex with an employee and a former intern (www.wsj.com)
2024-6-12 Elon Musk SpaceX

Push from governments to develop AI locally and train LLMs in their native languages and on their citizens' data, is a new growth opportunity for Nvidia, others (www.wsj.com)
2024-6-10 AI Nvidia

Data suggests Project Green Light, Google's AI system deployed in 14 cities to adjust traffic light timing, reduced stop-and-go traffic at intersections by 30% (www.wsj.com)
2024-6-10 Google AI

Rumors and body-shaming spread through a Vermont high school after students signed up for Fizz, an anonymous message board app for schools that has raised $40M+ (www.wsj.com)
2024-6-9

A look at Japan's role in the global chip battle; Omdia: Japanese companies account for nearly half of the world's six crucial semiconductor materials (www.wsj.com)
2024-6-8 Japan

A profile of new AWS CEO Matt Garman, who previously served as AWS' SVP of sales, marketing, and global services after starting as an intern at Amazon in 2005 (www.wsj.com)
2024-6-8 Amazon

How ex-FTC commissioner Joshua Wright became the tech industry's fixer, while allegedly juggling inappropriate relationships and skirting conflicts of interests (www.wsj.com)
2024-6-8

Boston-based Seven AI, which uses AI to help companies combat cyberattacks, emerged from stealth and raised $36M led by Greylock at a ~$100M valuation (www.wsj.com)
2024-6-7 AI

Robinhood plans to acquire crypto exchange Bitstamp for $200M, in a deal expected to close in H1 2025, and says Bitstamp will still operate under its own brand (www.wsj.com)
2024-6-6

A profile of ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet, a 51-year-old Frenchman who sources say supports global tech collaboration, as ASML starts to worry about geopolitics (www.wsj.com)
2024-6-6

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