consumer services

Corporate technology leaders looking to cut costs are turning to industry-specific cloud platforms, which are outfitted with tailor-made capabilities for running hospitals, banks, stores or other businesses.Chad Brisendine, vice president…

While some advertisers were pulling back from Elon Musk’s Twitter Inc. last month, Tumblr began a new ad campaign to encourage users to return to its once-popular social-media platform.“Welcome back :)” one ad on Twitter read, linking to…

Amazon has a ready audience for its new supply-chain software with a phalanx of small- and medium-size businesses in its…

Cryptocurrency exchange FTX, whose recent collapse has led to questions about lacking regulatory oversight, has hired a fitting team to help untangle the mess: former senior U.S. regulators.In its first hearing in Delaware bankruptcy court…

Marketers are often running digital ads on websites that provide relatively low returns on their investment but generate comparatively high carbon emissions, a new study said.Roughly 15% of ad spending in the study went to so-called…

Grindr LLC plans to further monetize its services, review subscription prices and beef up its finance team once the dating-app operator joins the public markets via a merger with a special-purpose acquisition company on Friday. Los…

Slumping markets have investors pulling back from funding startups that make internet-connected devices for retailers, threatening to choke an innovation pipeline for emerging tools like smart shopping carts and inventory management…

Oracle said Mr. Levey’s experience in technology, finance and national security would help it navigate the regulatory…

International Business Machines Corp. announced Wednesday that it has created a more powerful quantum computing chip, the next step in its yearslong effort to build quantum machines capable of delivering business value to companies.The…

Celebrity deepfakes are coming to advertising.Among the recent entries: Last year, Russian telecommunications company MegaFon released a commercial in which a simulacrum of Hollywood legend Bruce Willis helps…