Year: 2021

The rental-car industry is sharpening efforts to add more battery-powered vehicles to fleets, the latest move among companies around the world in various industries that are embracing greener technologies.

As General Electric and other old-school behemoths break up, Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft and Meta are taking their place as the do-everything companies of the future.

Global airline shares fell amid concerns that the new variant could take hold elsewhere and trigger broader travel curbs just as many parts of the world start to fly again.

CEO Daniel Zhang is devolving power to the heads of the company’s business units to speed up decision making so each division can better fend off competition and revitalize flagging sales.

An experimental Covid-19 pill from Merck and partner Ridgeback was 30% effective in a final analysis of study results, the companies said, down from the 50% rate found in an earlier look.

A crane operator, a ship captain, a trucker and other logistics workers describe what it’s like to work amid backed-up shipments, jammed ports and packed rail yards.

About a quarter of fully vaccinated people who got the drugmaker’s single-dose vaccine and a subsequent booster have stuck with Johnson & Johnson for their second dose, CDC data show.

Makers of popular products world-wide are coping with shortages from shipping delays and other logistics hurdles.

The U.K. has lost around 3,250 pubs and bars from March 2020 to this September. Those that survive are grappling with rising costs, staffing shortages, supply-chain snags and changing consumer behavior.

Managers at some state-run companies told employees that chat groups set up for work purposes on Weixin could contain sensitive information and should be shut down.