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The PepsiCo unit that sells Aunt Jemima products said it would retire the brand because of its origins in racist imagery of black people. Mars said it would change its Uncle Ben’s brand, while Conagra said it was reviewing its Mrs. Butterworth’s bottle.

The Justice Department proposed a rollback of legal protections that online platforms have enjoyed for more than two decades, in an effort to make tech companies more responsible in how they police their content.

Groups including the Anti-Defamation League and the NAACP, are encouraging big advertisers to pull spending to protest what they say is the company’s failure to make its platform a less-hostile place.

People who cut the cord have a host of streaming-video options, including live-TV bundles and on-demand entertainment. The Wall Street Journal created a quiz that weighs your household’s needs and budget to recommend the best services for you.

The utility becomes one of the few U.S. corporations to be convicted of manslaughter as it admitted to criminal negligence in starting the deadliest wildfire in California history.

EU authorities launched two probes into whether Apple violated competition laws through its Apple Pay service and App Store, escalating a campaign to curb Silicon Valley giants’ alleged attempts to corner markets and squash rivals.

Some employees are calling on the sportswear giant’s supervisory board to investigate its human resources chief and create a way to submit anonymous complaints about racism, after Adidas promised changes.

The burger chain said same-store sales in the U.S. fell 5% annually in May, a big improvement on the double-digit loss posted a month earlier at the height of lockdowns to combat the new coronavirus.

Consumers who held on to jobs or who are getting government benefits have seen bank accounts swell during the coronavirus pandemic because of restrictions on shopping and tourism. Now, they are spending with surprising strength to renovate homes and entertain families.

The Justice Department has charged six former workers at eBay with leading a cyberstalking campaign that targeted the editor and publisher of a newsletter the company viewed as critical of it.