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Company founders and leaders are unloading their stock at historic levels, with some selling shares in their businesses for the first time in years, amid…

The Federal Trade Commission has outlined a far-reaching vision for protecting consumers’ privacy online, but the plan faces challenges including budget…

A major U.S. data-storage equipment provider violated U.S. export rules by continuing to sell hard-disk drives to Huawei Technologies Co. after the Commerce…

WASHINGTON—Republican China hawks in Congress are pressuring the Commerce Department to fortify export controls to keep critical American technology from…

The U.S. and five European countries have reached an agreement on how those countries’ digital-service taxes would be withdrawn as a broader international…

BEIJING—China’s car sales declined in the third quarter from a year earlier, the first such drop in more than a year, as the global chip shortage continues…

Ireland, a low-tax country that is the European headquarters to some of the largest U.S. technology companies, said it would join a global agreement to set a…

HONG KONG—When she was detained in Canada nearly three years ago, Meng Wanzhou was crisscrossing the globe as finance chief…

PITTSBURGH—U.S. and European Union officials agreed to join forces in an effort to boost the semiconductor supply chain and maintain leadership in emerging…

Companies and trade groups urged the U.S. and the European Union to strike a deal to ease trans-Atlantic data flows as officials from Washington and Brussels…