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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…

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…

Hovering in the sky above Ukraine are hundreds of small drones from U.S. startups, searching for survivors in war-pummeled cities and Russian hide-outs in the scarred landscape.Those startups, including Seattle-based BRINC Drones Inc. and Silicon Valley’s Skydio Inc., are rushing to fill a gap in Ukraine after government officials called out products supplied by Chinese company SZ DJI Technology Co., the world’s largest commercial drone maker, as a security risk for Ukraine’s military and civilians. Ukrainian…

When Netflix Inc. NFLX -4.59% recently disclosed it had suffered its first subscriber pullback in a decade, only one region showed growth: Asia.Home to roughly half of the world’s population, Asia is a relatively untapped market where streaming habits are still forming. It means that hundreds of millions of subscribers could still potentially be up for grabs, as growth starts to drag in the U.S., Europe and elsewhere. But Netflix faces formidable challenges to keep…

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…

Startups marketing alternative crop fertilizers said they are gaining traction among U.S. farmers and investors, pitching themselves as a potentially cheaper option as prices for traditional fertilizers surge.Companies such as Pivot Bio, Kula Bio and Anuvia are pushing development of farm fertilizers by harnessing microbes or plant-based products to deliver nutrients that corn and other crops need. They aim to replace traditional fertilizers produced from natural gas or mined underground, prices of which have hit records…