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It’s the morning after an evening of holiday overindulgence. You wake up bleary-eyed, grab your phone and discover, with creeping shame, all the tipsy texts or posts you fired off the night before.Relatable? Maybe. Avoidable? Yes. Don’t forget that digital missteps can cause temporary awkwardness or very real devastation. Whether you’re attending the company holiday party or prepping for a New Year’s Eve soiree, a smartphone game plan could protect your personal and professional life. It makes it harder for you to send…

Business-software companies say customers are being more cautious with their spending in response to a challenging economy, adding to the tech industry’s list of concerns.Customers for companies such as Salesforce Inc., CRM -1.66% Okta Inc. OKTA -3.49% and CrowdStrike CRWD -0.06% Holdings Inc. are taking longer to sign deals, and in some cases slowing their hiring plans as they…

I don’t love the idea that my data is collected by websites, apps and devices. Hackers could steal it. Advertisers could use it to get me to buy more stuff. Plus, it’s also kind of creepy that I’m tracked everywhere I go. There are times when I want my data collected, though. Or at least, there are times I don’t mind because I get something of value in return. I’m reminded of that every year when Spotify sends me my Wrapped results. Spotify Wrapped, for those who don’t partake in social media, is a year-end analysis of…

WASHINGTON—The Biden administration on Friday said it would investigate recent hacks linked to an extortion-focused hacking collective known as Lapsus$ that over the past year has victimized some of the world’s biggest technology companies and broken into critical infrastructure systems.The U.S. Cyber Safety Review Board, a panel of experts from various government agencies and the private sector, will examine the group’s recent high-profile hacks, which researchers say have sometimes included extortion demands but at…

Like many parents, Greg and Selena Robleto offered to pay their kids for doing household chores. The couple quickly learned their money was no good.The girls wanted to be paid in Robux—the online currency in videogames from Roblox Corp. RBLX 5.10% —and turned up their noses at the crinkled, paper dollars the couple was offering. “They were handing it right back to me and saying, ‘Can you convert this to Robux?’ ” said Mr. Robleto, a 46-year-old web designer…

Marc Benioff might get lonely in the months ahead, but he certainly won’t be bored.  The co-founder and longtime chief of Salesforce CRM -9.80% is bidding farewell to the second person with whom he has attempted to share the top job. The cloud software giant said Wednesday that Bret Taylor is stepping down from his roles as vice chairman and co-CEO at the end of the current fiscal year, with Mr. Taylor…

Amazon has a ready audience for its new supply-chain software with a phalanx of small- and medium-size businesses in its third-party marketplace. Photo: Reuters Staff/REUTERS…

Meta META 7.89% Platforms Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Apple Inc. AAPL 4.86% holds too much sway over the mobile-app ecosystem and that he is still optimistic about his company’s metaverse ambitions, even if they might not come to fruition for many years. “Apple has sort of singled themselves out as the only company that is trying to control, like…

TikTok Chief Executive Shou Chew said the video-sharing platform is taking greater steps to keep user data secure and that it needs to invest more in protecting young people from getting exposed to harmful content.“We have very rigorous data-access protocols,” he said at the New York Times’s Dealbook Summit in New York on Wednesday, adding that TikTok, a unit of Beijing-based ByteDance Ltd., chose Oracle Corp. ORCL 2.70% as its…

Mr. Taylor, 42, will vacate the position Jan. 31, Salesforce said Wednesday. Mr. Benioff will become sole chief executive again and continue to serve as company chairman. The departure comes amid growing challenges for the tech industry in areas, such as cloud-computing software, that thrived during the pandemic. Salesforce announced the leadership change Wednesday along with its quarterly earnings. The company posted higher revenue in the latest quarter, citing customer demand against a challenging economic backdrop.…