US Business

Whoever has control of industrial norms for telecommunications, electricity transmission and artificial intelligence is in a position to dominate. For years, Western countries had the whip hand. Not anymore.

Tuning into the nation’s emotional exhaustion, marketers look to brighten spirits ground down by the pandemic.

Talks with Hyundai Motor Group have failed to lead to an agreement for the South Korean auto giant to assemble vehicles for the iPhone company.

The rollout and new variants are pushing back CEO expectations for when consumers will return en masse to traveling, eating out and shopping in stores.

Exports of goods to China rose 17.1% last year, as the Biden administration looks to reframe economic relations with the world’s No. 2 economy.

Hiring of temporary workers accelerated last month, and without those gains U.S. employers would have shed payrolls for the second straight month in January.

The small gain returned growth to the labor market after a one-month dip. The unemployment rate fell to 6.3%.

Wind project developers are pressing the administration to ease bureaucratic hurdles to building giant turbines off the U.S. Atlantic coast.

Eateries and grocers are selling more takeaway sushi during the pandemic, while supermarkets rush to train chefs.

One secret of Amazon’s ability to grow rapidly: software and algorithms that manage its millions of employees and marketplace sellers—technologies the executive knows well.