US Business

The near-term finances of the Social Security program appear to have weathered last year’s recession better than many policy analysts had predicted, taking some pressure off the Biden administration and Congress to reach a long-term solution to keep them solvent.

In the 1960s and 1970s, spiraling prices for staples like meat and gasoline wreaked havoc on the U.S. economy, thanks to political and policy mistakes that offer a warning for today.

The winner of the charity auction will join the Amazon CEO on the space company’s first passenger flight next month.

The pandemic is helping to soften the reputation of mining companies, often cast as villains.

Beijing is calling on tech giants to share the huge amounts of personal information they collect—and asserting its authority over data held by U.S. companies operating there as well. The efforts are part of Xi Jinping’s push to rein in the country’s increasingly powerful technology sector and use it to his party’s advantage.

The e-commerce giant taught us we can get everything tomorrow. Now small businesses have little choice but to comply, putting them in a bind: Raise prices, risking lost sales, or eat the cost of speedy shipping.

Lawmakers proposed a raft of bipartisan legislation aimed at reining in Big Tech, including a bill that seeks to make the e-commerce giant and others split into two companies or shed some of their products and services.

The burger chain said hackers stole some data from its systems in markets including the U.S., South Korea and Taiwan, in another example of cybercriminals infiltrating high-profile global companies.

The recovery in domestic air travel is helping the plane maker find new homes for jets whose original buyers walked away or collapsed during the pandemic.

The U.S. government has stopped making the J&J Covid-19 vaccine available to states, as federal and state officials try to clear a backlog of unused doses before they expire.