Month: February 2021

Talks with Hyundai Motor Group have failed to lead to an agreement for the South Korean auto giant to assemble vehicles for the iPhone company.

The rollout and new variants are pushing back CEO expectations for when consumers will return en masse to traveling, eating out and shopping in stores.

The small gain returned growth to the labor market after a one-month dip. The unemployment rate fell to 6.3%.

Hiring of temporary workers accelerated last month, and without those gains U.S. employers would have shed payrolls for the second straight month in January.

Exports of goods to China rose 17.1% last year, as the Biden administration looks to reframe economic relations with the world’s No. 2 economy.

Wind project developers are pressing the administration to ease bureaucratic hurdles to building giant turbines off the U.S. Atlantic coast.

Eateries and grocers are selling more takeaway sushi during the pandemic, while supermarkets rush to train chefs.

One secret of Amazon’s ability to grow rapidly: software and algorithms that manage its millions of employees and marketplace sellers—technologies the executive knows well.

Workers at an Alabama plant have until late March to vote in an election that could reshape the e-commerce giant’s relationship with its hourly employees.

After a decade of rapidly falling costs, the rechargeable lithium-ion battery is poised to overhaul the car industry, disrupt the power grid and challenge the dominance of oil and gas.