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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…

To Whom It May Concern: Job applicants are putting a hard stop to those dreaded cover letters.Many hiring managers say a sharp cover letter remains one of the best ways to make the case for why you are the right person for the job. Yet many…

SEOUL—Wearing a dark suit and red tie, Yoon Suk-yeol, the main opposition party’s candidate for South Korean president, stared into the camera with a stern look in his eyes. He prepared to answer a question: If he had to save President Moon…

Your next hotel’s concierge might not be in the same time zone as your room. Or sentient.Larger chains and smaller inns are moving past the custom of having guests press “0” on a landline phone to ask for that extra towel. Instead,…

Air travel is a big production that takes a lot of direction. The scenery can be spectacular. So can the drama. Who better to understand the journey than an acclaimed Hollywood filmmaker? Barry Jenkins, Oscar-winning…

Asset managers are jockeying to create the first U.S. bitcoin exchange-traded fund after a top securities regulator signaled a path to approval. In the past two weeks, ProShares, Invesco Ltd. , VanEck, Valkyrie Digital…

Robinhood Markets Inc. wants its users to buy stock. The online brokerage’s own, that is. The popular stock-trading app plans to set aside as much as 35% of shares in its coming initial public offering for individual…

Dogecoin and NFTs have captured the public’s imagination, but money is also flooding into another hot, and risky, corner of the cryptocurrency market: DeFi.Short for decentralized finance, DeFi is an umbrella term for financial services…

Priyanka and Ragu Murthy jokingly refer to themselves as the “Murthy Family of Losers.”  That’s because they’re constantly losing wallets, keys and their TV remote.Ms. Murthy, the 38-year-old CEO of a fine jewelry business, recently went to…