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How do New York Times journalists use technology in their jobs and in their personal lives? Daisuke Wakabayashi, a technology reporter in San Francisco, discussed the tech he's using.What are [...]

Google, for all its financial success and world-beating technology, has a problem: It often lags or is never even a player in markets it could have dominated. As Daisuke Wakabayashi [...]

Wall Street rebounded on Tuesday, retracing some of the losses in the previous day's rout. Stocks in Japan, the hardest hit by recent selling, jumped 10 percent. A measure of [...]

The Nikkei 225, the benchmark index in Japan, jumped 10.2 percent on Tuesday after a record decline. U.S. stock futures point to a higher open when trading resumes. Investors reclaimed [...]

Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen was warmly received in China, but it was evident that the level of trust between the two sides does not run deep. Four days of [...]

Election-year rancor will make it difficult for Washington and Beijing to find areas of cooperation on trade and investment. When Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen traveled to Beijing last summer, [...]

For years, Apple, Google, Meta and others operated unfettered. But new laws and regulations have finally compelled them to make major shifts to their products and businesses. By Thursday, Google [...]

The foreign ministers of the Group of 7 nations affirmed their shared visions on Russia's war on Ukraine and China's assertiveness after talk flared this month over different strategies. Top [...]

The tech giant is sprinting to protect its core business with a flurry of projects, including updates to its search engine and plans for an all-new one. Google's employees were [...]

Ignoring charges of spying, Beijing says Washington's ''overreaction'' is a symptom of the country's broken politics. While many in the world see the Chinese spy balloon as a sign of [...]

Lee Jae-yong, the company's longtime de facto leader, had been serving a prison term for bribery before being released on parole and later pardoned. SEOUL -- Samsung Electronics announced Thursday [...]

Xi Jinping is expected to secure a third term as leader during a pivotal meeting of the Communist Party, extending his authoritarian rule over the country. Xi Jinping defended his [...]

The drop to the new low, after stocks staged a brief recovery this summer, shows how uncertain the environment for investors has become. Markets around the world trembled on Monday, [...]

A day after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's killing, Japan, where gun violence of any kind is rare, was just beginning to process the shock. TOKYO -- A day after [...]

ENTERTAINMENT United Talent Is Acquiring U.K.'s Curtis Brown Group In an effort to compete in an increasingly complex entertainment space, United Talent Agency, the third-largest Hollywood agency, announced Monday that [...]

WAR IN UKRAINE Nestlé Suspends Sales Of Some Brands in Russia Nestlé said Wednesday that it was suspending sales of its KitKat and Nesquik brands in Russia, the latest effort [...]

LABOR Google Settles With Six Who Worked to Unionize Google has agreed to settle a National Labor Relations Board case filed by six former and current employees who said the [...]

Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine's youngest minister, has turned technology, cryptocurrency and social media into modern weapons of war. After war began last month, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine turned to Mykhailo [...]

LONDON -- The day after Russian tanks and troops poured across the Ukrainian border on Feb. 24, NATO leaders received a deeply frightening message. The alliance's secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, [...]

BANKING Citigroup Plans to Stop Charging Overdraft Fees Citigroup will eliminate overdraft fees this year, becoming the biggest lender in the nation to get rid of the charges, which regulators [...]

Attracted to the grit, equality and community of those modest watering holes, a Times reporter has worked them into his coverage. When I arrived in Rio de Janeiro, a colleague [...]

Google's Profit and Revenue Soared in the Third Quarter Google's parent company, Alphabet, shrugged off any concerns about a downturn in online advertising with another quarter of blockbuster earnings, lifted [...]

REGULATION Tech Giants Face Scrutiny Over Digital Payments A federal regulator has asked giant technology firms like Amazon, Google and Facebook to turn over information about how they run their [...]

SOCIAL MEDIA Google Says It Will Ban False Claims on Warming Google said it would no longer display advertisements on YouTube videos and other content that promotes inaccurate claims about [...]

The new set of policies will cover not just the Covid-19 vaccines or long-approved vaccines against diseases like measles and hepatitis B, but also general claims about vaccines, YouTube said. [...]

INTERNATIONAL Bangladeshi Factories Dispute Pact for Workers Days after international brands and labor unions unveiled an extension of a groundbreaking safety agreement intended to protect garment workers in Bangladesh, the [...]

Researchers and regulators say Joseph Mercola, an osteopathic physician, creates and profits from misleading claims about Covid-19 vaccines. SAN FRANCISCO -- The article that appeared online on Feb. 9 began [...]

BIG TECH Google Delays Changes to Browser Privacy Plan Google pushed back plans to phase out a widely used technology to track the web activity of users, in an effort [...]

ECONOMY Inflation in Britain Climbs Above Bank's 2% Target Inflation in Britain accelerated at its fastest pace in nearly two years last month, as businesses reopened and social distancing restrictions [...]

TECHNOLOGY Alphabet Profits Double,Bolstered by Google Ads Google's parent company, Alphabet, said on Tuesday that revenue in its most recent quarter increased sharply from the same period a year ago, [...]

The leaders of Google, Facebook and Twitter faced sharp questions about misinformation's role in the attack and the mental health of children who use their products. WASHINGTON -- Lawmakers grilled [...]

TECHNOLOGY Alphabet Sales Surge 23% Google's parent company, Alphabet, said on Tuesday that its quarterly revenue and profit surged in the fourth quarter, lifted by strong demand for advertising on [...]

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, said the risks of Mr. Trump using the service were too great, even as Twitter lifted its lock on the president's account. SAN FRANCISCO -- [...]

The moves came after critics and even some allies of the social media companies said they had failed to prevent the misinformation that led to chaos on Wednesday. SAN FRANCISCO [...]

TECHNOLOGY Google Chief ApologizesFor A.I. Researcher's Exit Sundar Pichai, chief executive of Google's parent company Alphabet, apologized for the departure of a prominent artificial intelligence researcher, whose exit has roiled [...]

The Netflix model is winning, and the entertainment industry may be changed forever. This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it [...]

Republican senators accused the leaders of Twitter, Facebook and Google of censorship. Democrats denounced that as posturing. WASHINGTON -- Lawmakers hammered the chief executives of Twitter, Facebook, Google and one [...]

The Justice Department's antitrust case points to restrictive contracts, a focus that a professor said ''is as old as the Sherman Act.'' Two weeks ago, House lawmakers concluded a 16-month [...]

It had blocked an unsubstantiated New York Post article about the Bidens but said late Thursday that it would allow similar content to be shared. SAN FRANCISCO -- President Trump [...]

The complaint says the contractor, HCL, refused to negotiate with the union and retaliated by shipping work to Poland. A federal agency issued a complaint this week against a contractor [...]

In a report led by Democrats, lawmakers said Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook needed to be checked and recommended they be restructured and that antitrust laws be reformed. WASHINGTON -- [...]

COMPANIES Honest Company Is SaidTo Explore a Sale Jessica Alba's Honest Company has hired Morgan Stanley and Jefferies to run a sale process that it hopes will value the company [...]

The decision to narrow the case to search could set off separate lawsuits from states over Google's power in other business segments. WASHINGTON -- The Department of Justice's impending lawsuit [...]

The chiefs of Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook faced withering questions from Democrats about anti-competitive practices and from Republicans about anti-conservative bias. WASHINGTON -- The chief executives of Amazon, Apple, [...]

The tech C.E.O.s will appear together at a congressional hearing on Wednesday to argue that their companies do not stifle competition. WASHINGTON -- After lawmakers collected hundreds of hours of [...]

A commercial deal in Kenya marks the first application of balloon-powered internet in Africa, the region with the lowest percentage of internet users globally. NAIROBI, Kenya -- A fleet of [...]

Google, Facebook and Twitter said they were reviewing China's punitive new national security law for the city, a rare public questioning of Chinese policy by major American tech companies. Google, [...]

This briefing is no longer updating. The latest developments can be found here. Apple is closing stores in four states after a rise in new coronavirus cases. Apple said it [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- Even as Facebook grappled this month with an internal revolt and a cascade of criticism over its refusal to take action on President Trump's inflammatory posts, the [...]

To placate European regulators, the company started giving Android phone users a choice in search engines when they set up their devices. OAKLAND, Calif. -- For the last few months, [...]