Alex Webb

If Apple Inc. is going to make a success of its car project, it has to target the $230 billion luxury automobile market. Doing so may be the only way to keep investors happy. But displacing 125-year-old incumbents like Mercedes-Benz won’t be straightforward. The iPhone maker has reignited…

Pekka Lundmark has a lot resting on his shoulders. As chief executive officer of Nokia Oyj, he’s tasked with turning around the stuttering telecoms giant’s fortunes before it misses out on the 5G revolution. Also riding on his success, however, is the ability of the world’s industrialized economies…

Spotify Technologies SA pulled off a royal coup by announcing an exclusive podcast deal with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex this week. But in a sense, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle need the venture to be a success more than the music streaming giant does. The Stockholm-based company has gone on…

There’s a good reason that breaking up tech giants is the nuclear option: It’s a deterrent. If everything works as planned, you should never have to do it. On Tuesday, European Union antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager and internal market commissioner Thierry Breton announced a range of new tools…

The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed an uncomfortable truth about the telecoms industry: Roaming, that old bugbear of the world traveler, still accounts for a disproportionate amount of profit. It’s an addiction that carriers just aren’t ready to wean themselves off, even as it becomes harder to…

If you’re used to storing your photos and videos for free in the Google cloud, then this week brought some bad news: The days of unlimited storage are numbered. From June 2021, you’ll still get 15 gigabytes of storage for free, but anything over that and you’ll have to pony up. So with the heady…

It’s tempting to imagine that the US is finally catching up with Europe when it comes to skepticism — and regulation — of Big Tech. The reality is different. While the Department of Justice is now pursuing a lawsuit against Google parent Alphabet Inc., and a House panel has proposed reforms to…

The advent of 5G networks has accentuated US concerns about lacking a domestic rival to the mighty Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. Yet the Chinese telecoms equipment maker’s main competitors, Ericsson AB and Nokia Oyj, have good reason to be relieved that they are domiciled in Sweden and Finland…

When filmmakers think about subjectivity in storytelling, they often lean on the thriller “Rashomon,” the 1950 Japanese flick that recounts the tale of the same murder from multiple perspectives. By emphasizing or playing down different actions, each narrator seeks to shape the audience’s…