US Business

Companies including Walmart and Costco began to rethink their requirements for face masks after federal health regulators relaxed their guidelines this week.

Experts differed on whether smartphones are interchangeable with other videogame platforms and the definition of a market in the digital age.

In his first year running WarnerMedia, Jason Kilar fired the streaming service’s top brass, blew up the movie business and angered Hollywood royalty. It’s been a crash course in entertainment-industry politics. He says it’s also a recipe for success.

The company lost a bid to block a European Union privacy decision that could suspend its ability to send information about Europeans to the U.S., opening a pathway toward a precedent-setting interruption of its data flows.

The operators of the fuel pipeline made the payment to regain control over their computer systems, say people familiar with the matter. The company is now resuming service.

Walt Disney added 8.7 million Disney+ subscribers in its fiscal second quarter, and its parks segment logged an operating loss as the company faces an economy trying to emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic.

Large U.S. employers of lower-wage workers are raising pay and adding perks, with Amazon set to add 75,000 employees and offer signing bonuses and McDonald’s boosting wages at company-owned restaurants.

Apple parted ways with a prominent advertising-technology executive weeks after hiring him, following complaints about sexist and misogynistic passages in a memoir he wrote about his time at Facebook.

Car makers have cut production of 1.2 million vehicles in North America because of a shortage of computer chips, losing sales amid high demand.

Consumer prices surged in April by the most in any 12-month period since 2008 as the recovery picked up. Rising demand and supply bottlenecks are raising inflation concerns.