Articles by Erin Slifka

Retail sales were unchanged in April as shoppers pulled back on goods purchases while increasing spending on services.The moderation in spending came as the recovery continued to build strength, though with signs of unevenness.

The prominent advertising-technology engineer let go by Apple amid an uproar over sexist passages in his memoir fired back, calling the company’s statements around his dismissal “defamatory and categorically false.”

Companies including Walmart and Costco began to rethink their requirements for face masks after federal health regulators relaxed their guidelines this week.

Experts differed on whether smartphones are interchangeable with other videogame platforms and the definition of a market in the digital age.

In his first year running WarnerMedia, Jason Kilar fired the streaming service’s top brass, blew up the movie business and angered Hollywood royalty. It’s been a crash course in entertainment-industry politics. He says it’s also a recipe for success.

The company lost a bid to block a European Union privacy decision that could suspend its ability to send information about Europeans to the U.S., opening a pathway toward a precedent-setting interruption of its data flows.