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Google’s chief executive defended his company’s plan to explore a search engine tailored for users in China despite concerns that would mean complying with the country’s strict internet censors. [...]

While some tech companies are backing away from working with the Pentagon, Jeff Bezos says Amazon.com Inc. won’t be one of them. [...]

A day after a broad selloff, Asian stock markets gained in early trading Tuesday, despite modest losses on Wall Street. [...]

Social-media companies are failing their users by creating echo chambers that encourage polarization, Twitter Chief Executive Jack Dorsey said Monday. [...]

Retirement’s big three—pensions, savings, Social Security—are under stress [...]

Instagram co-founder and former chief executive Kevin Systrom suggested Monday that things weren’t so great at Facebook Inc., where he quit last month. [...]

Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, died Monday following complications from non-Hodgkins’s lymphoma. He was 65. [...]

Stormy Daniels’ defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump was tossed out Monday — with a federal judge ordering the porn star to pay the president’s legal fees, according to reports. [...]

A federal regulator plans to explain what it considers to be “abusive” practices by companies selling financial services, a move aimed at giving a clearer idea of what behavior would [...]

The United Steelworkers union and U.S. Steel Corp. struck a tentative agreement for a new labor contract covering at least 14,000 workers, breaking a three-year wage freeze. [...]

Net earnings at $852.5 million, up 16.6%Adjusted net earnings at $704.2 million, down 3.7%Revenues at $11.543 billion, up 3.4% [...]

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