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Sep 30, 2020
U.S. carriers are using higher amounts of some chemicals to show their planes are safe. The unknown long-term effects of these antiviral sprays concern some scientists.
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Sep 30, 2020
Some employers are willing to help pay for options including Citi Bikes, Ubers—even discounted parking—to get workers back into the office while concerns persist about the subway during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Sep 30, 2020
The company is on target to make a profit this year with its sponsored newsletters despite the economic turmoil stemming from the coronavirus that led to broad layoffs and pay cuts at many media outlets.
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Sep 30, 2020
Incoming PVH Chief Executive Stefan Larsson will be charged with guiding the company's fashion brands out of the pandemic and into what he calls retailing's "new normal."
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Sep 30, 2020
Property owners are increasingly asking tenants to hand over a share of e-commerce revenue, but their due isn't easy to measure.
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Sep 30, 2020
Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren said his outlook for the U.S. economy is more pessimistic than some of his colleagues because his concerns that the persistence of the coronavirus pandemic will prevent a return to more normal levels of activity.
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Sep 30, 2020
Federal Reserve officials' promises to hold interest rates very low for a long time could present them with a future dilemma: what to do if their policies inflate asset bubbles.
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Sep 30, 2020
Royal Dutch Shell said it would cut up to 9,000 jobs in a broad restructuring, as the energy giant grapples with the ongoing fallout of the pandemic.
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Sep 30, 2020
Half a year into the coronavirus pandemic lockdown, information-technology leaders are tackling a new set of communication problems, as companies extend their remote-work infrastructure beyond business continuity and into employee well-being.
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Sep 30, 2020
China's economy gathered more steam in September as a rebound in global demand and the government's supportive measures bolstered factory activity and helped push sentiment in the service sector to its highest level in nearly seven years.
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Sep 30, 2020
A comprehensive new study by McKinsey and Lean In suggests that many women—especially mothers—may have to step back or away from jobs because of the pandemic's impact on their lives.
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Sep 29, 2020
The U.S. Treasury said it has closed loans to seven passenger airlines and joined with the industry to call on Congress to extend more aid to prevent massive job cuts later this week.
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Sep 29, 2020
Boeing will set plans this week to consolidate 787 Dreamliner assembly in South Carolina, people familiar with the matter said, ending production of that jetliner in Washington state.
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Sep 29, 2020
Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D., Wis.) on Tuesday asked Purdue Pharma LP's board to turn over any emails and other information documenting the company's decision to change its New York address for receiving legal documents from Albany to White Plains about six months before filing for chapter 11 last year.
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Sep 29, 2020
NextEra Energy recently made a takeover approach to Duke Energy, according to people familiar with the matter, testing the waters for what would be a $60 billion-plus combination of two southern utilities.
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Sep 29, 2020
Volkswagen is betting that a reformed compliance culture and an expanded whistleblower program that helped the German car maker clear a critical U.S. regulatory milestone this month will also help prevent another scandal and go a long way in restoring its reputation.
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Sep 29, 2020
Walt Disney said it would lay off about 28,000 employees at its domestic theme parks, citing continuing restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic, particularly its inability to reopen Disneyland in Southern California.
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Sep 29, 2020
Walt Disney said it would lay off about 28,000 employees at its domestic theme parks, citing continuing restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic, particularly its inability to reopen Disneyland in Southern California.
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Sep 29, 2020
The two officials agreed to talk again Wednesday despite skepticism on Capitol Hill that an agreement is possible at this stage.
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Sep 29, 2020
Dataminr sells a service to police that monitors Twitter's full feed and sends alerts including tweets about protests—putting the pair at odds with privacy advocates.
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Sep 29, 2020
The Treasury aims to begin approving small-business owners' forgiveness requests by late this week or early next, following criticism that the process for turning the loans into grants has been too slow and onerous.
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Sep 29, 2020
"The recovery has actually been stronger, more robust than many were expecting," Mr. Williams said in a virtual appearance. "This ability to somehow keep the economy growing, despite the pandemic…makes me optimistic that we'll be able to continue to see a pretty strong economic recovery for the rest of this year, into next year."
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Sep 29, 2020
The retailer in recent months struggled to keep its shelves filled with wipes, baking yeast and laptops.
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Sep 29, 2020
The drugmaker said a preliminary analysis of clinical-trial data showed reduced virus levels in nonhospitalized Covid-19 patients.
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Sep 29, 2020
Retail store closings in the U.S. reached a record in the first half of 2020 and the year is on pace for record bankruptcies and liquidations as the Covid-19 pandemic accelerates industry changes.
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Sep 29, 2020
Applications to some top-tier M.B.A. programs are soaring this year after schools extended application deadlines and loosened their standardized testing requirements.
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Sep 29, 2020
Spice maker McCormick saw revenue climb this summer as stronger sales to consumers outpaced weakened demand from commercial customers during the pandemic.
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Sep 29, 2020
BP has unveiled the most aggressive plans yet by a major oil company to pivot toward cleaner energy. But the revamp has so far failed to ignite enthusiasm among investors despite growing interest in renewables.
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Sep 29, 2020
The nearly hour-long phone conversation occurred after House Democrats released a new, less-expensive version of their previous aid package, which shaved the price tag to $2.2 trillion, down from $3.5 trillion.
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Sep 29, 2020
They see gender diversity in their companies as crucial in making sure the technology doesn't penalize the underrepresented.
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Sep 29, 2020
The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller National Home Price Index, which measures average home prices in major metropolitan areas across the nation, rose 4.8% in the year ending in July.
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Sep 29, 2020
President Trump and Republicans got much of the tax code they wanted in 2017. In a second term, he would face expiration dates on those and push for more tax cuts.
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Sep 29, 2020
Microsoft is developing an update to its Teams package of workplace collaboration tools to replace one of the less-mourned losses of pandemic living: the commute to and from work.
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Sep 29, 2020
Manhattan office employees are returning to work at a slower pace than those in most other major U.S. cities, raising the risk that New York faces a more protracted and painful recovery from the coronavirus pandemic than much of the rest of the country.
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Sep 29, 2020
Retail bankruptcies, liquidations and store closings in the U.S. reached records in the first half of 2020 as the Covid-19 pandemic accelerated industry changes, particularly the shift to online shopping, according to a report.
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Sep 29, 2020
If implemented nationwide, guaranteed income would represent a significant expansion of the American safety net and one that is not conditional on working or looking for work.
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Sep 29, 2020
Central bank researchers overestimate the potency of bond buying stimulus efforts, in part because seeing the upside of these strategies benefits their careers, according to a new paper made public Monday.
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Sep 29, 2020
Retail bankruptcies, liquidations and store closings in the U.S. reached records in the first half of 2020 as the Covid-19 pandemic accelerated industry changes, particularly the shift to online shopping, according to a report.
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Sep 29, 2020
Japan's biggest telecommunications company said it would spend $40 billion to buy the portion of its mobile unit that it doesn't already own, taking full control of its principal cash cow.
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Sep 28, 2020
A malicious software attack crippled computers at one of the nation's largest hospital chains and led it to cancel some surgeries and divert some ambulances.
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Sep 28, 2020
The company said problems included some users of its Outlook email services and Teams workplace collaboration suite that provides chat functionality and videoconferencing.
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Sep 28, 2020
The French luxury-goods conglomerate says the damage the U.S. jeweler's business has suffered during the pandemic invalidates their $16 billion deal.
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Sep 28, 2020
Epic Games says Apple's App Store commission is excessive and that the tech giant abuses its control of the marketplace to stifle competition.
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Sep 28, 2020
Thor Industries, a large recreational-vehicle maker, finished its latest fiscal year in July with a record-high backlog of orders.
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Sep 28, 2020
Victims of the opioid crisis are calling on a bankruptcy judge to lift a protective shield that is keeping them from suing members of the Sackler family who own Purdue Pharma.
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Sep 28, 2020
Those in lower-income and lower-wealth categories reaped relatively large gains, according to the Federal Reserve's data.
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Sep 28, 2020
Banning downloads while the court fight continues would harm the video-sharing app's business, a federal judge said, ruling that the Trump administration's curbs likely went beyond the bounds of a national security law.
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Sep 28, 2020
The carrier said a deal with pilots has reduced planned layoffs to about 12,000 if more federal aid isn't arranged this week.
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Sep 28, 2020
Gimbal wants TrueX's technology to go after the ‘addressable-TV' market, where different ads are shown to different households. Gimbal paid less than $100 million for the company.
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Sep 28, 2020
Employers are trying ‘quiet days' to dial back the time remote workers spend on meetings; ‘Focused Wednesday Afternoons'
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Sep 28, 2020
The company agreed to sell its U.S. business to Cleveland-Cliffs for $1.4 billion, as the world's largest steelmaker grapples with the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic
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Sep 28, 2020
Thor Industries, a large recreational-vehicle maker, finished its latest fiscal year in July with a record-high backlog of orders.
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Sep 28, 2020
A planned later-stage trial for a Covid-19 vaccine from Inovio Pharmaceuticals is on hold, after U.S. health regulators raised questions.
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Sep 28, 2020
Those in lower-income and lower-wealth categories reaped relatively large gains, according to the data.
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Sep 28, 2020
Women would be wise to learn how to navigate the new office politics, executive coaches say.
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Sep 28, 2020
Black professionals face greater obstacles early in their career, are viewed more critically than their colleagues and frequently lack the relationships that are pivotal to advancement. Only 1% of the chief executives running America's top 500 companies are Black.
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Sep 28, 2020
The company agreed to sell its U.S. business to Cleveland-Cliffs for around $1.4 billion, as the world's largest steelmaker grapples with the fallout from Covid-19.
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Sep 28, 2020
President Trump's nominee to the agency that regulates the vast derivatives market traded extensively in stocks and options during his more than three years in government.
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Sep 28, 2020
The shale drillers are combining in an all-stock merger of equals, creating an entity with a combined market value of about $6 billion. The move could help them weather the prolonged slump in oil demand amid the Covid-19 pandemic
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Sep 28, 2020
The electric truck startup's future depends on delivering big technological advances and dramatic cost reductions.
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Sep 28, 2020
Virtual-reality offices and conference spaces—where you can meet up with holographic versions of your distant colleagues—is a great change from flat, boring video calls. Our columnist breaks down how to do it.
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Sep 28, 2020
Unilever has leaned on developing countries to power its sales growth, but the pandemic has roiled its biggest such market—India—propelling the company to change how it manufactures, prices and distributes its products there.
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Sep 28, 2020
Ride-hailing company Uber won an appeal over the revocation of its operating license in London, ending for now a yearslong tussle with regulators in one of its biggest global markets.
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Sep 28, 2020
A system Google set up to promote competition on Android has left some smaller search engines having trouble gaining traction, fueling rivals' complaints about the tech giant's compliance with a European Union antitrust decision ahead of potential U.S. charges.
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Sep 28, 2020
ArcelorMittal has agreed to sell its U.S. business to Cleveland-Cliffs for around $1.4 billion, a deal that will further diminish its position as the world's largest steelmaker as it grapples with the fallout from Covid-19.
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Sep 28, 2020
Outsourced fulfillment specialist ShipBob raises $68 million in funding from investors including Softbank's Vision Fund.
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Sep 28, 2020
The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis said the central bank, as part of its effort to support the corporate credit market during pandemic-related disruptions, is buying too much debt from fossil fuel companies.
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Sep 28, 2020
Epic Games says Apple's App Store commission is excessive and that the tech giant abuses its control of the marketplace to stifle competition.
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Sep 28, 2020
Companies are having a hard time figuring out what their offices should look like as the coronavirus pandemic turns into a more permanent feature of doing business. That makes life challenging for the CFO of Herman Miller.
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Sep 28, 2020
Caesars Entertainment said it is in advanced talks over the possible takeover of U.K. betting company William Hill, as the global interest in the burgeoning U.S. sports-gambling market continues to grow.
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Sep 28, 2020
Amazon.com said Prime Day will take place on Oct. 13 and 14, marking the second straight year the company has opted to extend the sales period to two days.
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Sep 27, 2020
The Japanese semiconductor maker called off what was to have been one of this year's biggest stock offerings, after earlier saying that U.S. export restrictions on China's Huawei Technologies were hurting its business.
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Sep 27, 2020
The federal judge's move gives the Chinese-owned app a short-term victory as it scrambles to ensure its future while caught in a battle of brinkmanship between global superpowers.
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Sep 27, 2020
Gun maker Remington Outdoor will be broken up and sold after a multiday bankruptcy auction saw seven different buyers win the bidding for different parcels of the company's weapons and ammunition holdings.
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Sep 27, 2020
The company has requested to postpone a U.S. ban on downloading the popular video-sharing app, set to take effect around midnight.
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Sep 27, 2020
Microsoft has relied on the National Football League's mass audiences since it became a sponsor in 2013. This year, the coronavirus pandemic left the company wondering whether there would be an NFL season at all.
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Sep 27, 2020
The U.S. jobs report for September highlights a week of data that will show how economies are recovering from coronavirus-induced recessions and from continued disruptions related to the pandemic.
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Sep 27, 2020
Toni Reid, the woman behind the Echo, explains Amazon's tough culture, how women in tech can advance and working from home.
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Sep 27, 2020
Microsoft has relied on the National Football League's mass audiences since it became a sponsor in 2013. This year, the coronavirus pandemic left the company wondering whether there would be an NFL season at all.
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Sep 27, 2020
Sophie Schmidt launched Rest of World, a nonprofit journalism startup, in May to shine a light on technology's impact in less-covered markets.
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Sep 27, 2020
President Xi Jinping wants to encourage domestic consumption as a hedge against potential commercial or geopolitical disruption, but merchants in the export-oriented city of Yiwu face hurdles to selling more goods at home.
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Sep 27, 2020
With new software updates, Apple is squeezing more value out of its year-old AirPods Pro, the company's noise-canceling wireless earbuds.
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Sep 27, 2020
With fights flaring over payouts during a time of disrupted business, many companies are looking beyond mainstream coverage and doing it themselves.
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Sep 27, 2020
The Series E round was led by Franklin Templeton and values Allbirds at $1.7 billion, according to a person familiar with the terms.
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Sep 27, 2020
A plan to make oceangoing ships pay for the pollution they cause carrying cargo to and from Europe is drawing sharp criticism from the industry and raises the prospect of a broader conflict on trade.
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Sep 27, 2020
Advertisers are flocking to streaming TV, pursuing viewers who are spending more time watching programming on ad-supported services. But fraudsters seeking to steal some of those new ad dollars are moving in, too.
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Sep 27, 2020
Grocery stores and food companies are preparing for a possible surge in sales amid a new rise in Covid-19 cases and the impending holiday rush.
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Sep 26, 2020
The companies are in talks to combine, according to people familiar with the matter, in a move that could help the energy companies weather a prolonged industry slump.
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Sep 26, 2020
The companies are in talks to combine, according to people familiar with the matter, in a move that could help the energy companies weather a prolonged industry slump.
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Sep 26, 2020
A host of companies, including Facebook, Spotify and Epic Games, are challenging the way Apple runs its App Store.
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Sep 26, 2020
TikTok and its partners are heading into what could be a pivotal weekend with a multipart strategy to avert a fast-approaching U.S. ban on downloads of the popular video-sharing app.
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Sep 26, 2020
The U.S. action threatens to cut off SMIC, which is at the heart of Beijing's efforts to compete in advanced technology, from equipment used to manufacture chips.
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Sep 26, 2020
The pandemic closed hundreds of thousands of businesses across the country. But now applications for new U.S. businesses are rising at the fastest rate since 2007. Why? A mix of necessity and opportunity.
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Sep 25, 2020
The airline said it would be able to borrow more than expected from the U.S. Treasury after rivals walked away from government loans, helping the airline shore up its cash reserves.
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Sep 25, 2020
A shareholder lawsuit that cites internal company documents alleges that the plane maker failed to properly oversee management's responses to two fatal crashes and safety problems in the aircraft involved.
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Sep 25, 2020
The British bookmaker said it had received takeover proposals from Caesars and Apollo, the latest sign of growing interest in the U.S. sports-gambling market.
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Sep 25, 2020
Mallinckrodt is preparing to file for bankruptcy as soon as within weeks, setting up a potential battle with state and local governments over the drugmaker's alleged role in fueling opioid addiction in the U.S.
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Sep 25, 2020
The findings from an early-stage trial add detail to J&J's recent announcement that the trial's results were positive and support the drugmaker's decision to start a larger study.
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Sep 25, 2020
LinkedIn, the professional networking site owned by Microsoft Corp., has rolled out a redesign and several new features, including its own version of "stories" posts.
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Sep 25, 2020
Google's parent announced workplace changes including forbidding romantic relationships between bosses and subordinates and put $310 million into a diversity and inclusion fund in a settlement of shareholder suits Friday.
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