Articles by Erin Slifka

TikTok, a popular short-video app, sought to distance itself from Beijing after India banned it and dozens of other Chinese mobile apps in retaliation for a deadly border clash last month

Chinese coffee chain Luckin Coffee Inc.’s co-founder Charles Lu will remain chairman—at least for now—after the board failed to get the necessary votes to oust him, the company said Thursday.

Leaders of civil rights groups are meeting with Facebook executives after calling for an ad boycott of the platform for the month of July. Facebook, which has been under growing pressure to change and update some of its content and brand-safety policies, this week requested a new meeting with civil rights leaders.

Beijing is telling foreign companies not to worry, but its intercession in Hong Kong has executives fearing that the city’s unique role as a business hub is in jeopardy.

German prosecutors are probing whether the electronic-payments giant used fictitious revenue to inflate its sales and fool investors. The company and its auditors say $2 billion that is missing probably never existed.

Safety fixes after the first Boeing 737 MAX crash became snarled in Federal Aviation Administration delays and repetitive analyses, wasting any chance U.S. regulators had to prevent the second fatal accident, according to an investigation by the Transportation Department’s internal watchdog.

McDonald’s is pausing the reopening of dine-in service in the U.S. as coronavirus cases continue to spread across states.