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After earning an M.B.A. at Kent State University and working for International Business Machines Corp., Umang Gupta was tempted to return to his native India and start his own company. He went home for an extended visit in late 1977. Then he was lured back by two things, a girlfriend and a sense that Silicon Valley was his best career bet.He married the young woman, Ruth Pike, in 1980 and raised a family with her. He signed on as employee No. 17 at what became the software giant Oracle Corp.…

Thousands of food-delivery drivers walked off the job in Dubai over the weekend to protest low pay and poor working conditions, a rare act of defiance in the Middle East business hub where labor actions are criminalized.The foreign workers contracted by Deliveroo, a U.K.-based app that went public last year with backing from Amazon.com Inc., refused to make deliveries for over 24 hours, crippling the company’s service during a busy period at the end of Ramadan when Muslims fast during the…

The precise movements of millions of users of the gay-dating app Grindr were collected from a digital advertising network and made available for sale, according to people familiar with the matter.The information was available for sale since at least 2017, and historical data may still be obtainable, the people said. Grindr two years ago cut off the flow of location data to any ad networks, ending the possibility of such data collection today, the company said. The commercial availability of the personal information, which…

Online pharmacy company Truepill Inc. said it is temporarily halting prescriptions for Adderall and other controlled substances used to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, and partner Cerebral Inc. told its clinicians to direct those orders to patients’ local pharmacies.Cerebral, an online mental-health company based in San Francisco that describes Truepill as its preferred pharmacy, informed its clinicians of Truepill’s decision in a Friday email viewed by The Wall Street Journal. The email said Truepill…

European Union antitrust authorities on Monday charged Apple Inc. AAPL 0.20% with abusing its dominant position by restricting access to the technology underpinning contactless payments on its mobile devices, adding to the bloc’s efforts to clamp down on alleged anticompetitive behavior by some of the world’s biggest tech companies.The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, said it took issue with Apple’s decision to prevent mobile-wallet app developers from…

The National Labor Relations Board said 62% of workers who cast valid ballots from a location site named LDJ5 voted not to form a union. The count was 618 to 380 against unionization, the NLRB said. The results Monday dealt a blow to organizers who hoped to build on their success from an April election, where workers at a warehouse named JFK8, Amazon’s largest on Staten Island, voted to establish the first U.S. union inside the e-commerce giant. An Amazon spokeswoman said the company is “glad that our team at LDJ5 were…

The nearly nonstop series of new U.S. sanctions being levied in a bid to halt Russia’s war machine have complicated events for companies facing their own external threat: ransomware attacks.The ever-lengthening lists of sanctioned entities pose risks to U.S. companies that want to pay to get their systems back online after an attack, experts said. Ed McNicholas, co-leader of the cybersecurity practice at law firm Ropes & Gray LLP, said ensuring that ransomware payments aren’t going to…

Amazon. AMZN -14.05% com Inc.’s legendary e-commerce machine, which has grown at breakneck speed for more than two decades, is showing signs of stalling.The tech giant on Thursday reported its slowest sales growth in roughly two decades. Product sales have flatlined, and revenue at its main online-shopping business segment has stagnated for six months, one of the worst periods of anemic growth in Amazon’s history. And company executives said overall sales might slow…

The pandemic made shopping for Instacart Inc. one of the hottest jobs in the supermarket business. Now, it is getting tougher.Instacart workers, who fulfill online orders for consumers, say their jobs have become more difficult and less lucrative as they see fewer, smaller orders than they did earlier in the pandemic. Some said they are increasingly competing against other so-called shoppers, waiting around for orders or driving to neighborhoods where they are more likely to find work. The job is changing as growth slows…

SINGAPORE—China is preparing to hit pause on its monthslong campaign against technology companies, according to people familiar with the matter, as officials seek to arrest a rapid deterioration in the country’s economic outlook.China’s top internet regulator is set to meet next week with the country’s embattled tech giants to discuss the regulatory campaign, according to the people, who described the meeting as a sign that officials acknowledge the toll the regulations have had on the private sector at a time when…