Articles by Erin Slifka

When President Trump leaves the White House in January, he will face some of the deepest financial and legal challenges in his family business empire in decades.

Coronavirus disruptions have transformed how American consumers behave by accelerating their embrace of digital commerce, and the changes are likely to prove permanent, according to businesses studying and adapting to the changes.

The libertarian-minded platform aims to challenge tech giants through a focus on free speech. Prominent conservative donor Rebekah Mercer is among the company’s financial backers.

Netflix has 16 projects in the works from its Tokyo-based team as the pandemic lifts demand.

The biggest purchase the conglomerate has made in 2020 is the purchase of its own stock. Until recently Warren Buffett eschewed buybacks.

President-elect Joe Biden said during the campaign that he wanted to forgive hundreds of billions of dollars in student debt. Yet Senate Republicans have opposed Democratic proposals for large-scale debt forgiveness.

This year’s Thanksgiving celebrations are shaping up to be a little more fancy, a little more pricey and a lot smaller than usual.

A consumer-products giant known for its meticulous market research and complex management structure decided to become faster and slimmer. The result? A blue-bottled disinfectant that became a hit for Procter & Gamble during the pandemic—and helped it steer a path through the crisis.

The food-delivery company, which has grown at a blistering pace during the pandemic, turned a surprising quarterly profit in June before falling back to a loss in September.

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. has set Nov. 27 as the new deadline for a deal to turn the social-media app into an American company.