Allstate Wants to Track Your Driving to Set Rates 
 

The car insurer has been talking to state regulators about helping to lead an industrywide effort to transition from sizing up risk in applicants with factors including credit scores to largely using telematics to determine rates.

 
NFL Ratings Are Up 17%, Boosted by Fans in Stands and Close Games 
 

Games have drawn an average of 17.3 million viewers through the first four weeks of this season, its highest level in six years.

 
Delivery Giant Meituan Fined in Beijing's Tech Crackdown 
 

China's top antitrust body said Meituan violated antimonopoly laws by effectively forcing merchants to sell exclusively on its platform.

 
After Dollar-Bond Default, Chinese Developer Fantasia Says It Will Fix Finances 
 

Prices of Fantasia's yuan-denominated bonds plummeted when they resumed trading on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

 
Facebook's Would-Be Regulators Are Between a Rock and a Hard Place 
 

Lawmakers seem committed to change at Facebook, but far from deciding on the right way to do it.

 
Tesla to Move Headquarters From California to Texas, Elon Musk Says 
 

The electric-vehicle maker is moving its headquarters to Austin, Texas, cementing Chief Executive Elon Musk's commitment to the Lone Star State and adding to a handful of Silicon Valley companies that have relocated there.

 
Samsung Expects 28% Rise in Operating Profit 
 

Forecast is the latest reminder of how the world-wide semiconductor shortage has turned out to be a financial boon for chip makers.

 
Google to Block Ads Next to Content Denying Climate Change 
 

The move by the world's largest digital-ad company comes after recent restrictions on ads next to vaccine misinformation.

 
Twitch Data Leak Shows Some Make Hundreds of Thousands a Month 
 

Leaked data from the streaming platform Twitch revealed that people can make six-figure monthly incomes from others watching them play videogames, but some streamers say the figures are incomplete.

 
How Evergrande Grew and Grew, Despite Years of Red Flags 
 

The Chinese property company's path to the brink of default was littered with financial red flags. But a combination of financial regulators, local Chinese governments, yield-hungry investors and insiders kept the critics at bay.

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

October 08, 2021 11:00 ET (15:00 GMT)