Tech startups and other businesses raced to line up sources of cash for payroll and other immediate needs after their deposits in Silicon Valley Bank, long a linchpin of tech financing, were locked up...
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U.S. Shale Boom Shows Signs of Peaking as Big Oil Wells Disappear
HOUSTON—The boom in oil production that over the last decade made the U.S. the world’s largest producer is waning, suggesting the era of shale growth is nearing its peak. Frackers are hitting fewer bi...
Burned Out, More Americans Are Turning to Part-Time Jobs
Part-time work is exploding. The number of Americans working part time rose by 1.2 million in December and January compared with the preceding months, according to the Labor Department. Most of that i...
AI Becomes Silicon Valley’s Next Buzzy Bandwagon as Crypto Boom Fizzles
The new artificial-intelligence tools getting widespread attention for spitting out text, images and computer code are also generating something else: talk of the next technology bubble. Technologists...
Toyota Rethinks EV Strategy With New CEO
Jan. 29, 2023 11:33 am ET Listen to article (2 minutes) Toyota’s chief executive always said he wasn’t a skeptic about electric vehicles—he was a realist. Longtime CEO Akio Toyoda called himself a spo...
Bed Bath & Beyond Says Banks Have Cut Off Its Credit Lines
Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. said it doesn’t have the funds to repay its banks after they determined the retailer has defaulted on its credit lines. The home-goods chain said Thursday it received a noti...
Chips Are the New Oil and America Is Spending Billions to Safeguard Its Supply
Only in the past two years has the U.S. fully grasped that semiconductors are now as central to modern economies as oil. In the digitizing world, power tools commonly come with Bluetooth chips that tr...
Startups End a Bruising 2022, Stare Down Another Challenging Year
Startups had a dismal year by nearly every measurement in 2022, from plummeting investment to scarce public listings, and data point to a 2023 that could be even more difficult. As markets tanked in e...
Business Disruptions Wane as Some Industries See a Return to Normal
After more than two years of pandemic-related upheaval, businesses in many corners of the economy are seeing their Covid disruptions recede. Supply-chain disruptions have eased. A lack of semiconducto...
The Craziest Moments From the Longest Tech Boom (So Far)
It’s been a singular year for tech, one that marked the apparent end to a heady, madcap boom that changed how we think about the industry. Over the past dozen or so years, a tidal wave of money poure...
How Southwest Airlines Melted Down
When Southwest Airlines Co. reassigns crews after flight disruptions, it typically relies on a system called SkySolver. This Christmas, SkySolver not only didn’t solve much, it also helped create the ...
Survival Lessons From Past Tech Downturns
People who have been in the tech industry long enough to remember its previous major downturns have a message for those facing the current one: Decisions made now will determine who survives—and lay t...
Apple Makes Plans to Move Production Out of China
In recent weeks, Apple Inc. has accelerated plans to shift some of its production outside China, long the dominant country in the supply chain that built the world’s most valuable company, say people ...
U.S. Natural-Gas Pioneer Struggles in His Second Act
Charif Souki has played a starring role in transforming America into an energy powerhouse, but his second attempt at exporting natural gas is foundering. Mr. Souki’s new firm, Tellurian Inc., is strug...
Elizabeth Holmes Sentencing: A History of the WSJ Theranos Investigation
By Michael Siconolfi Nov. 18, 2022 5:30 am ET Listen to article (2 minutes) Elizabeth Holmes’s journey from Silicon Valley superstar to felon is slated to culminate Friday during a hearing in which a ...
As Pandemic Aid Dries Up, Businesses Chase Covid Tax Credit
A temporary tax break for small businesses has spawned a cottage industry of advisory firms tapping into federal pandemic aid, raising alarms at the Internal Revenue Service that some claims are going...
Elon Musk Made Unusual Request in Falling Out With Top Tesla Lieutenant
Last year, Elon Musk parted ways with one of his top deputies at Tesla Inc., a French auto-industry executive named Jerome Guillen. Mr. Guillen worked at Tesla for roughly a decade, rising to oversee ...
New England Risks Winter Blackouts as Gas Supplies Tighten
Listen to article (2 minutes) New England power producers are preparing for potential strain on the grid this winter as a surge in natural-gas demand abroad threatens to reduce supplies they need to g...
BP Buys Renewable Natural-Gas Company in $4.1 Billion Deal
By Chris Wack Oct. 17, 2022 8:17 am ET Listen to article (1 minute) Archaea Energy said Monday it is being bought by BP PLC for $26 a share in cash, or a total enterprise value of $4.1 billion, includ...
U.S. Suppliers Halt Operations at Top Chinese Memory Chip Maker
BEIJING–U.S. chip-equipment suppliers are pulling out staff based at China’s leading memory-chip maker and pausing business activities there, according to people familiar with the matter, as they grap...
Saudi Arabia Lures Executives to Neom With Million-Dollar Salaries, Zero Taxes
Saudi Arabia’s megadevelopment Neom is paying senior executives roughly $1.1 million each annually, according to an internal Neom document, showing how the kingdom is using large pay packages to lure ...
Memory Chip Makers Struggle With Declines in Demand, Price
Listen to article (2 minutes) The pandemic boom in memory chips is on pause. A decline in prices in recent months has led the biggest memory players—including Samsung Electronics and Micron Technology...
Exxon Improperly Fired Scientists Suspected of Sharing Information, Labor Department Finds
Listen to article (2 minutes) The Labor Department said it found Exxon Mobil illegally fired two company scientists over suspicions they shared information with The Wall Street Journal about concerns ...
Rivian Recalling Nearly All of Its Vehicles
Rivian Automotive is recalling nearly all of its vehicles to address a potential problem that could cause customers to lose steering control, the company said Friday. The electric truck and SUV maker ...