US Business

Bob Chapek championed movies made for at-home viewing—a useful strategy in the streaming age.

The state’s electricity system was considered a model. This week’s outages revealed shortcomings in the market structure, including with incentives to producers.

The U.K.’s top court ruled that a group of former Uber drivers were entitled to a minimum wage and other benefits while working for the company, dealing a setback to gig-economy firms in battles world-wide over their employment model.

Facebook removed news from its platform in Australia in response to proposed legislation that could offer a model for other countries that want to require big tech companies to pay publishers for their content.

The car company’s new leader, Toshihiro Mibe, is poised to accelerate Honda’s move into EVs and build on its growing partnership with General Motors.

IBM is studying alternatives for the unit that could include a sale to a private-equity firm or industry player or a merger with a blank-check company

Customers and marketers are shifting more of their attention away from television and toward digital media during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The investigation followed a Wall Street Journal article detailing unauthorized sharing of personal information with the social-media company.

The country’s largest private employer reported strong holiday sales and said it would raise pay for hourly U.S. workers to an average above $15 an hour, after a year in which the pandemic boosted its business.

The spoken-word social revolution has arrived at just the right time. And even if it turns out to be a pandemic-boosted fad, it’s one you should try out.