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Engine No. 1, a newcomer activist investor with a sustainability bent, wants the beleaguered energy giant to act faster to remake itself.

The home-rental company plans to boost the proposed price range of its initial public offering to between $56 and $60 a share, the latest sign that the red-hot IPO market is ending the year on a high note.

The Alphabet unit is thinking about imposing penalties after an audit found that IAC misled users regarding Chrome browser extensions.

The thinning out is part of a global shift in fuel-making power amid competition from more efficient facilities in Asia and the Middle East.

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are currently negotiating details of a roughly $900 billion plan.

Most of the jobs that were added in the U.S. in November were in the transportation and warehousing industries—the ones that package, ship and deliver goods to consumers.

The U.S. economy added 245,000 jobs in November, as the unemployment rate ticked down to 6.7% the Labor Department said Friday, signaling a sharp slowdown in the labor-market recovery.

Two studies in the New England Journal of Medicine highlight the promise of Crispr and other gene therapies for treating sickle-cell disease.

Trade groups representing companies like Procter & Gamble and PepsiCo are easing their long-held opposition to sharing the costs of dealing with packaging waste.

CEO James Daunt, having already fixed a big U.K. book chain, has laid off once-powerful managers, overturned relationships with publishers and renovated stores in favor of a more local approach, including a focus on the smallest details. He believes the survival of bookstores is on the line.