US Business

The Christmas Day bombing in Nashville hit a weak point in telecommunications infrastructure, disrupting phone and internet service for days and underscoring a key risk for increasingly digitized businesses.

The decision to pull the plug on its flagship effort to help digitize the modern city marks a setback for Cisco, which has been trying to boost sales of software services over hardware.

The vaccine will become the fifth to enter final-stage testing in the U.S., and if results are positive it could receive authorization sometime during 2021.

Many people have piled up vouchers for canceled flights in the past year, but redeeming them can be a real pain.

Makers of Folgers coffee, Scott toilet paper and others are investing in factories and new products, wagering that pandemic habits like growing beards and fixing quick lunches will stick around.

The arrival of Oracle, Apple and Tesla poses new challenges to the city’s struggle to absorb an influx of new residents while remaining affordable—and “weird.”

Chinese financial regulators moved to rein in Ant Group, the financial-technology giant controlled by billionaire Jack Ma, telling it to switch its focus back to its mainstay payments business and rectify problems in faster-growing areas.

Oil-and-gas companies in North America and Europe wrote down roughly $145 billion combined in the first three quarters of 2020, the most for that nine-month period since at least 2010.

A fresh rise in coronavirus infections in the West has set back the global economy, but the impact is far less, thanks to new company tactics and Chinese demand.

The U.K. and the European Union secured an agreement over their future relations, calming the worst fears of a major economic disruption in coming weeks as Britain unmoors from its largest trading partner.