The rule was an effort to ensure that the world’s largest data centers would be built by the United States and its allies, rather than in the Middle East or elsewhere. Biden officials were skeptical of the U.A.E.’s and Saudi Arabia’s autocratic tendencies and ties to China. They also argued that the rule would limit…

Walking into the crowded hotel conference room, Andrew Batey looked like any other tech guy attending ETHDenver, an annual cryptocurrency conference. A venture capital investor based in Florida, Mr. Batey wore a black sweatshirt emblazoned with the logos of more than a dozen crypto companies, with names like LunarCrush and bitSmiley. He had arrived in…

For the past three weeks, the Justice Department and Google have questioned more than two dozen witnesses to try to sway a federal judge’s decision over how to address the company’s illegal monopoly in internet search. On Friday, that hearing concluded in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. To fix the monopoly,…

Pinterest recently agreed to pay $34.7 million to settle a lawsuit from an early adviser who claimed she had co-created the platform without compensation. Christine Martinez, 44, who was a friend of Ben Silbermann and Paul Sciarra, two of Pinterest’s three co-founders, sued the company in 2021 for breach of implied contract, idea theft, unjust…

An entrepreneur who revolutionized the automobile business decides he now needs to change how the world thinks, so he buys a media property to use as a megaphone. His rants validate many people’s worst impulses while also encouraging enemies of democracy around the world. This sounds like Elon Musk and his social media site X…

That was Andrey Andreev, who was the head of Badoo and was a co-creator of Bumble. And then you faced another workplace scandal after Bumble started, involving him. In 2019 Forbes published an investigation, and he was accused of creating a toxic and sexist work environment at Badoo’s London headquarters. He denied these allegations but…

A Virginia man has been charged with second-degree murder after fatally shooting a teenager who was filming a prank for TikTok known as “ding dong ditch” with two friends around 3 a.m. on Saturday, according to court records and local authorities. The Spotsylvania Sheriff’s Office responded to a report of a resident firing shots during…

Several weeks after a federal appeals court said Apple would have to loosen its grip on its App Store, Tim Cook, the company’s chief executive, and his top lieutenants debated what to do. For more than a decade, Apple had required apps to use the App Store payment system and collected a commission of up…

Google agreed to pay $1.4 billion to the State of Texas on Friday to settle two lawsuits accusing it of violating the privacy of state residents by tracking their locations and searches, as well as collecting their facial recognition information. The state’s attorney general, Ken Paxton, who secured the settlement, brought the suits in 2022…

In recent days, iPhone apps have been changing. The Kindle app now lets people buy books directly from its site. Spotify is offering users free trials. And Patreon, a subscription service, is letting people pay creators more money. The changes are an early look at how a recent court ruling could transform the shopping experience…