There’s no denying that, since Donald Trump was sworn in as president in January 2017, the US economy has been doing quite well. Growth in real gross domestic product has been steadily accelerating. Strong job growth has also continued, with gains in nonfarm payroll employment even accelerating a little this year, which is pretty remarkable this deep into an economic ...

Pony Ma has been very patient. Unfortunately for him, investors haven’t, and earnings will give them little reason to hold their breath. Net income and revenue at his Tencent Holdings Ltd both missed estimates. Concerns that rising costs would squeeze margins have helped to wipe about $150 billion off the Chinese goliath’s market value since January. Now China’s halt in ...

In the 1981 sci-fi novel “True Names,” Vernor Vinge describes a dystopian future in which hackers go to great lengths to keep their real-world identities secret for fear that the US government might enslave or assassinate them. Almost four decades years later, it’s not lives that are at risk, but reputations and careers. In recent months, we’ve seen multiple media ...