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Apple reports first quarterly sales drop since 2003 as iPhone stumbles

Tech giant misses expectations for profit, revenue, but CEO dismisses concerns that it is in decline

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Alibaba affiliate Ant Financial raises $4.5 billion in largest private tech funding round

Ant Financial Services Group, the financial-services affiliate of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding, closed the world’s largest private fundraising round for an Internet company at $4.5 billion

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Uber drivers settle with ride-hailing company in labor dispute

Uber will continue to classify drivers as contractors and will pay drivers up to $100 million

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Prince, mysterious, inventive chameleon of music, dies at 57

Prince, the prodigious musical talent and relentless innovator, created a hybrid of rock and funk. The 57-year-old musician died Thursday at his home in Minnesota

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China moves to silence a rising online celebrity

Beijing removes Papi Jiang’s monologues as part of its effort to clean up cyberspace

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Tencent, Alibaba battle for Chinese office app users

One focus of the intense rivalry is helping users to separate their work from life

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Why 'Game of Thrones' is tv's most viral show

Is Jon Snow dead? Where is ‘Game of Thrones’ season 6 headed? From Tyrion to Daenerys, a social-media frenzy

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Do earthquakes in Japan and Ecuador signal an epidemic? Scientists say no

The two quakes occurred about 9,000 miles apart. That’s far too distant for there to be any connection between them.

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Alibaba, Ant Financial to jointly invest $1.25 billion in Ele.me

Alibaba also signed an agreement under which its own online food-services platform will cooperate with Ele.me

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For Indian start-ups, tenacity beats high tech

On a hot afternoon in a two-story house here, as dogs barked and auto-rickshaws sputtered outside, a venture capitalist grilled three entrepreneurs.

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Huawei struggles to be cool

Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies wants to be cool.

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Smartphones are boring: Here's what happens next

LG’s G5 offers a glimpse of what groundbreaking technologies are coming to your smartphone in the future, Joanna Stern writes

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On writing "Alibaba: The house that Jack Ma Built"

The chance meeting would prove a pivotal one for Ma Yun, who would later be known to the wider world as Jack Ma.