Charles Hoskinson demos Midnight Passport, a seven-layer crypto onboarding tool that gets new users a full wallet via QR code in under 60 seconds.

From capturing contact lens sales to sharing playlists, these practices are finding clever uses for a simple square.

An $84 billion market suggests momentum. In healthcare, it also signals restraint. A new marketing playbook from Elevation Marketing examines how hospitals evaluate and purchase software in a sector ...

Every Black Friday and Cyber Monday, millions of shoppers unknowingly become test subjects in retail's largest behavioral experiment. Under the pressure of flash sales and ticking countdown timers, ...

QR codes have become a convenience of modern life. Just scan the black and white mosaic with your phone’s camera and you can do everything from connect to your hotel room Wi-Fi to pay for that public ...

JPMorgan is marking down collateral held by private credit firms and reducing their borrowing capacity — a preemptive move driven by market valuations, not actual loan losses. The markdowns target ...

Researchers at TU Wien and Cerabyte created the world’s smallest QR code, measuring just 1.98 square micrometers. The record has been officially verified by Guinness World Records, making it 37% ...

You might be interested to know that Claude Code AI can be used to assist marketers in managing complex tasks more efficiently in 2026. Below Eric Siu explains how it can be used to create marketing ...

The U.S. bans Chinese software in connected cars starting March 17, forcing automakers to purge code fast. Could this stall Chinese brands in America? Automakers must remove Chinese-written code from ...

Software stocks continue to tumble on AI-driven fears. Investors seem to think Microsoft is overspending on capital expenditures. The stock is trading at a modest discount to the S&P 500. The iShares ...

At WSJ Invest Live, Jon Gray shared optimism for the health of the private-credit market and discussed Blackstone’s investment strategy in AI infrastructure. Investors’ fears that new developments in ...

To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. In 2010, brands rushed to plaster QR codes on everything from movie posters to running shoe packaging. Universal ...