Month: September 2020

China is launching its own initiative to set global standards on data security, countering U.S. efforts to persuade like-minded countries to ringfence their networks from Chinese technology.

E-commerce giants are enacting major new restrictions on the sale of seeds, but the moves are unlikely to eliminate the tactics government officials and industry experts suspect are behind the mystery seeds caper that gripped the world this summer.

Production problems at a Boeing 787 Dreamliner factory have prompted air-safety regulators to review quality-control lapses potentially stretching back almost a decade. The plane maker says there is no immediate safety threat.

Sci-fi spy film ‘Tenet’ grossed an estimated $20.2 million in the U.S. and Canada for the holiday weekend.

Relaxing domestic ticket-change fees will cost airlines hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenue when passenger bookings start to improve, but it is a loss aimed at winning back customers.

China’s export machine gained steam in August as countries gradually recovering from coronavirus lockdowns, including the U.S., snapped up more Chinese-made goods.

Stock in Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. fell sharply after the U.S. government said it was considering placing export restrictions on the company, in what would mark a major escalation in the Trump administration’s crackdown on Chinese technology companies.

The share of U.S. workers with college degrees has kept growing, but the nation’s productivity gains have been tepid.

Ski resorts and amusement parks are facing hiring hurdles this year after the Trump administration’s ban on several work-based visa types.

Big employers are telling employees they can take paid time off to volunteer as election workers as they aim to help solve a national poll-worker shortage.