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Business News > Mint Authors > Sarah E Needleman

Sarah E Needleman

ARTICLES BY SARAH E NEEDLEMAN

Allison Pomeroy wearing her Meta smart glasses, alongside her husband, DJ Pomeroy. (Photo: DJ Pomeroy)

Meta’s AI-powered Ray-Bans are life-enhancing for the blind

5 min read . 17 Feb 2025

TikTok, with offices in Culver City, Calif., is used by about 170 million Americans. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo (REUTERS)

A TikTok ban is imminent: What are the financial stakes?

5 min read . 18 Jan 2025

(Emil Lendof/WSJ, Getty Images, Blizzard)

Musk vaulted to the top of a popular videogame. Where did he find the time?

4 min read . 08 Jan 2025

TikTok last said that it has 170 million U.S. users and that its creators would lose almost $300 million in earnings a month if the ban goes through. (File Photo: Reuters)

A TikTok ban looms. Creators say they’ll believe it when they see it.

5 min read . 02 Jan 2025

Reddit’s huge amount of data works well for AI companies because it is organized by topics and uses a voting system instead of an algorithm to sort content quality, and because people’s posts tend to be candid. (Photo: Reuters)

How years of Reddit posts have made the company an AI darling

4 min read . 10 Dec 2024

Some say AI-generated images just don’t translate well into tattoos, (Image: Pixabay)

If your tattoo was designed by AI, does it have a soul?

4 min read . 06 Nov 2024

Microsoft sought to position itself as a disrupter, believing the streaming revolution would migrate from television and film toward a growing, interactive medium with billions of rabid fans. Image: Pixabay)

New ‘Call of Duty’ tests Microsoft’s $75 billion bet on future of videogames

5 min read . 25 Oct 2024

Netflix has been pushing games with tie-ins to its shows and movies, including ‘Emily in Paris.’ (Netflix)

Netflix backs out of plan to develop blockbuster videogame

2 min read . 23 Oct 2024

Google’s headquarters campus in Mountain View, Calif. The company’s Google Play app store is preloaded on all Android smartphones outside of China. Photo: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg News

Epic Games to sue Google, Samsung over alleged app-store scheme

2 min read . 30 Sept 2024

‘Fortnite’ gamers competed in Saudi Arabia last year. (REUTERS)

Epic Games to sue Google, Samsung over alleged app-store scheme

2 min read . 30 Sept 2024

Microsoft acquired Activision Blizzard for $75 billion last year. Photo: Reuters

Microsoft lays off 650 videogame workers

2 min read . 12 Sept 2024

Pinterest chief executive Bill Ready. (Photo: Marissa Leshnov/WSJ)

Where Pinterest’s CEO goes for inspiration and ideas

6 min read . 20 Jul 2024

Hundreds of millions of people around the globe regularly post videos and photos to entertain or educate social-media users. About 50 million earn money from it, according to a 2023 report from Goldman Sachs. (Image: Pixabay)

Social-media influencers aren’t getting rich—they’re barely getting by

10 min read . 18 Jun 2024

A recent ‘inputting error’ by a Citi trader led to the sale of $1.4 billion in equities, prompting a ‘flash crash’ in European stocks. PHOTO: JUTHARAT PINYODOONYACHET FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Citi isn’t the only one with a fat finger problem

4 min read . 27 May 2024

Jason Citron, chief executive of Discord. (Bloomberg)

Discord to start showing ads for gamers to boost revenue

3 min read . 31 Mar 2024

(lllustration: Emil Lendof/WSJ, Paramount, Universal)

Hollywood finds fresh characters and new worlds in videogames

6 min read . 30 Mar 2024

Steve Huffman co-founded Reddit and is now the company’s CEO. (Photo: Getty Images)

Reddit fueled meme-stock mania. Now its CEO is overseeing his own company’s IPO.

5 min read . 16 Mar 2024

A performance in ‘Fortnite’ last year by The Kid Laroi included three unreleased tracks. (Epic Games)

From rock to rap, artists are doubling down on videogames to reach new listeners

5 min read . 04 Mar 2024

Apple’s new fees have drawn sharp criticism from the app-developer community, with opponents arguing the 27% commission the company will now impose on in-app purchases made through alternative payment methods will cost developers and, ultimately consumers, more money.

Apple Changes Its App Store Policy. Critics Call the Moves ‘Outrageous.’

5 min read . 18 Jan 2024

Michael Wolf, co-founder and CEO of consulting firm Activate, as he speaks at WSJ Tech Live in Laguna Beach, Calif. (Photo: The Wall Street Journal)

How generative AI will change the way you use the web, from search to shopping

4 min read . 18 Oct 2023