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LONDON—At 5:30 a.m. on a recent weekday, Heathrow Airport’s departure boards were blinking optimistically with hundreds of on-time flights. It didn’t take long for the airport to fall into what has become a near-daily meltdown.…

The online education company uses the “.edu” email addresses of partner universities to recruit students for them. It funds scholarships. The company also uses equipment that makes it look as if its recruiters are calling from universities’…

Tiger Global Management rode the tech boom like no other investment firm. It was funding more startups than any other U.S. investor when the market peaked last year, and had tens of billions of dollars from pensions, endowments and rich…

The last time Todd Jones heard this kind of panic in his clients’ voices, it was 2008 and the global financial system was on the brink of collapse.Mr. Jones, the chief investment officer at investment…

A dizzying turn in technology-startup investing is undoing the fortunes of founders and investors riding a 13-year bull run.Highflying startups have been grounded, swiftly, by the new climate: layoffs, skeptical investors, an exodus of…

The cryptocurrency TerraUSD had one job: Maintain its value at $1 per coin.Since it launched in 2020, it had mostly done that, rarely straying more than a fraction of a penny from its intended price. That made it an island of stability, a…

PIGEON FORGE, Tenn.—Tom and Barb Hansen’s search for a retirement spot reads like the script to a road movie. California’s Lake Tahoe. Sedona and Scottsdale in Arizona. The Ozark Mountains of Missouri.…

With a seemingly bottomless feed of goof-offs, dance-offs and good-natured pranks, TikTok bills itself as the happiest place on the internet.Fueling its success: an exacting management style and demanding internal culture that belie its…

With a seemingly bottomless feed of goof-offs, dance-offs and good-natured pranks, TikTok bills itself as the happiest place on the internet.Fueling its success: an exacting management style and demanding internal culture that belie its…

As Elon Musk’s crusade against Twitter Inc. TWTR -0.18% escalated from a war of words to a full-on takeover, he was egged on behind the scenes by a mix…