Once upon a time, Theranos was a promising biotech firm—raising $632 million from 2014-2015. In October 2015, everything changed when the Wall Street Journal published the first of its many exposés that revealed the company’s struggle to develop the blood-testing technology it promised. The Journal’s stories…
The Wall Street Journal wants a “substantial number” of newsroom employees to take a buyout, editor-in-chief Gerard Baker announced to his staff in a memo sent to WSJ staff Friday morning.
A month after the E-Ink FES concept watch got people excited about an innovative wearable that didn't care if it wasn't particularly smart, rumors that Sony was working on a similar E-Ink-based timepiece started to swirl. But according to the Wall Street Journal, Sony was behind the FES watch concept all along, and…
A secret U.S. spy program used fake cell phone towers attached to airplanes to scan citizens' cell phones and collect their data, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Think that you have it hard, with your internship forcing you to work 8-hour days making coffee for no pay? Well, a WSJ report might make you feel a little better: Chinese factories are relying on cheap intern labour to keep the manufacturing dream alive.
Apparently the Wall Street Journal has plans to launch a business-focussed social network, presumably along the lines of LinkedIn. Well, that sounds like a great idea, doesn't it?
Last night, the Wall Street Journal took its new mobile site live, supposedly specially formatted to look good and work on iOS devices. Except, erm, this is what it looks like on an iPad Mini:
If you thought the Wall Street Journal only announced that it had been infiltrated by Chinese hackers once the debacle was over—think again. Rupert Murdoch has tweeted that the newspaper is still coming under sustained attack.
WSJ Live is an excellent app from the folks at the Wall Street Journal, it gives you access to live news about the Market, Tech and more AND also gives you access to the entire video archive of the WSJ. on demand videos. It's like having the WSJ in video form (in fact, most of the content is made with WSJ reporters).…
Readers of the Wall Street Journal may have noticed a familiar byline in the May 23rd edition of the newspaper. For their special report on the future of transportation I looked at retrofuturistic visions of how we'd get from Point A to Point B. It was a fun spread to put together and I'm only now finding the time to…
Patent Trolls have been around nearly as long as patent infringement itself. Bottled Lightning by Seth Fletcher takes a look at one scientific-disagreement-turned-nasty fight over the batteries that power our cordless tools and someday, potentially, our cars.
Don't mucky your paws with paper and ink if you already own an iPad—the Wall Street Journal is to begin flogging versions of the morning's paper for $2 each. They claim it's not because of the NY Times' new paywall strategy, but... [PaidContent]
The June 3, 1983 Wall Street Journal ran a short blurb about jobs that robots would soon do and others that robots would probably never do. Darning socks made the list of jobs they'd never do. They should have put it on the list of things humans wouldn't do either. Where's my Father McKenzie bot?!?!!
News Corp's big "Digital Planet" newspaper app project for tablets has been killed off supposedly, due to lack of interest and cost. That means no one-stop app for all of their newspapers. Proper shame right there. [Reuters]
The NYT, WSJ and USA Today, are building special tablet-y apps for Samsung's Galaxy Tab, hoping to easily port the app over to other Android tablets. And the WSJ, knowing its core audience, wants all up on the BlackBerry PlayBook.
On the one hand, you have the New York Times: "I am an internet news application!" And then you have the Wall Street Journal: "I am a color newspaper!" And then you have USA Today: "I like Skittles!"
It's maybe not the most surprising news, given the Wall Street Journal's longtime web leadership, but Rupert Murdoch has officially confirmed that the WSJ will indeed appear on the iPad. But Rupert, what can you tell us about it?
Daring Fireball's John Gruber caught the WSJ's Walt Mossberg with Steve Jobs yesterday, and made three observations: Mossberg hadn't seen it before; he was realcurious about Office compatibility; and Steve was pissed Mossberg's sitting on the table. [Flickr via Gruber]
Wall Street Journal and the New York Post not your favorite rags? Sony's signed up a couple dozen more newspapers for its Reader Daily Edition, with the New York Times, The Financial Times, and The Denver Post included.
