US Business

The tech giant sees Teams, its group conferencing and collaboration software, as critical to its future. Some rivals say Microsoft has deployed sharp-elbowed business tactics to get in front.

Social media has become a central battleground for the protests across the U.S., with tech platforms amplifying tensions while also providing a real-time chronicle of the unrest and police responses that might not have otherwise gained widespread attention.

The action marks opposition to Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to allow a post from President Trump about the recent social unrest that they believed violated the company’s rules about inciting violence.

The social unrest in major cities has slowed the reopening efforts of retailers and restaurants still reeling from the effects of the pandemic on their business.

The coffee chain is reducing labor as coronavirus limits hours and services.

Hundreds of thousands of respirator masks to protect against coronavirus have been sent through a decontamination system that has triggered warnings from front-line workers and has so far cost the government more than $110 a mask.

Newspapers and television stations that post their own articles on Facebook are responsible for other Facebook users’ defamatory comments on those posts, an Australian court ruled.

Lilly began the first study of an experimental drug derived from a blood sample of an early U.S. survivor of Covid-19, a new effort to take advantage of the molecular defenses developed by recovered patients.

YouTube wants advertisers to spend more to reach the consumers who are increasingly using their television to watch videos on its platform. The effort is a bid for a piece of the massive ad budgets that go toward traditional TV as well as the fast-growing ad spending earmarked for streaming TV.

Nestlé must stop branding its plant-based burger “Incredible” after a European court ruled the language infringed on Impossible Foods’ trademarks and could confuse consumers.