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This captivating version of Richard Adams’s fantastic, violent, Tolkien-esque tale is most definitely not for children.

The Russian operation to influence Americans through social media included an effort to convince business owners to buy into a marketing campaign and turn over private information.

Apple has infringed on a patent owned by Qualcomm, a German court found, in a ruling that could lead to a sales ban on some iPhone models in Western Europe’s second-largest smartphone market.

Steven Mnuchin says investors overreacted to this week’s Federal Reserve meeting, adding that some were disappointed in Fed Chairman Jerome Powell’s comments.

Eight months after pulling its self-driving cars off the road following a fatal accident, Uber Technologies is putting the vehicles back into service.

Altria’s $12.8 billion investment in Juul gives the e-cigarette maker more marketing muscle and a benefit that would have been unthinkable from a cigarette company in the past: an easier path to Washington’s approval.

President Trump orders U.S. troops out of Syria, Senate approves stopgap spending measure to avoid shutdown, and states race to catch up with electric scooters.

The new rules for labeling “bioengineered foods” mark a win for companies that asked for more time before disclosing use of the controversial crops.

Russian trolls, posing as a Los Angeles marketing company, targeted American businesses in order to control their Instagram accounts. WSJ’s Shelby Holliday explains how their elaborate scheme worked.

The tech-industry veteran and chief executive of Quibi, Jeffrey Katzenberg’s mobile-video startup, on the innovations coming to smartphones and the wisdom of the algorithm

Mat Baxter, CEO of Initiative, an Interpublic Group of Cos. agency, wrote on his LinkedIn page that it was time to “take a collective stand” against Facebook.

Floral designer Lindsey Taylor captures the feminine and the darkly feline in a 19th-century American portrait, ‘Sita and Sarita,’ by Cecilia Beaux.

With phone spam on the rise, a plucky band is fighting back with practical jokes, air horns and inane conversations about spaghetti; “What kind of joke are you joking with me?”

The American higher education system, the largest in the world and a major source of revenue for towns and cities across the U.S., is losing its dominance as a global magnet for top talent.

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Match Group chief Mandy Ginsberg talks about her first year on the job, the Facebook threat and tackling loneliness through technology.

Mandy Ginsberg, CEO of the Match Group, which owns dating apps like Tinder and OkCupid, talks to The Wall Street Journal about the best way to run a meeting, how to say no to an executive, and juggling work and parenting. Photo: Natalia V. Osipova/The Wall Street Journal

Some Amazon sellers comp shoppers who give five-star ratings, others deploy armies of fake buyers—and that means you need to review the reviews

Amazon has a program where reviewers get free products in exchange for legitimate reviews. In other scenarios, vendors give products free to buyers who rate them five stars. WSJ's Joanna Stern caught up with a professional Amazon reviewer to find out how to spot the fakes. Photo illustration: Laura Kammermann / The Wall Street Journal

SoftBank Group has led a $385 million investment in auto-finance startup Fair, the latest bet by the Japanese firm to back startups that are trying to fundamentally change personal transportation.

President Trump ordered the withdraw of U.S. troops from Syria, and declared that America had "defeated ISIS." WSJ's Gerald F. Seib discusses the significance of the decision and its consequences. Photo: AP

The first futures contract that will pay out in cryptocurrency rather than cash is expected to soon get regulatory approval.

Electric-scooter rental companies are hitting speed bumps in the U.S. over safety and other concerns. But in Tel Aviv, one in 10 residents has rented a Bird e-scooter, and the city appears to be embracing them. WSJ’s Jason Bellini takes a look at the challenges and potential lessons of the e-scooter craze.