US Business

The all-stock deal for Five9, which provides cloud-based customer-service software, will help Zoom expand its potential offerings for business and enterprise clients.

Meetings got shorter during the pandemic, researchers say, but they are multiplying; workers at companies adopting hybrid remote and office schedules should prepare for it to get worse.

The heated rhetoric between the White House and Facebook escalated over the weekend but comes after months of mounting private frustration inside the Biden administration over the social-media giant’s handling of vaccine misinformation.

Construction companies, manufacturers and other businesses that submit bids to win jobs say that process has turned unpredictable as rising materials costs expose them to potential losses.

Starting Aug. 1, the government-backed mortgage giants will stop charging a 0.5% refinance fee that was imposed last year during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Americans stepped up retail spending in June, offering a boost to the economic recovery as it faces concerns about accelerating inflation.

Federally funded programs are scheduled to expire in September, but some states have opted out early.

MSP Recovery LLC said in court papers earlier this week it had identified 60 asbestos compensation trusts nationwide that fail to divulge settlement payments made to asbestos injury victims and to reimburse Medicare providers for those peoples’ healthcare costs.

Many restaurant and home chefs prefer cooking on gas-burning ranges, and persuading some to switch to electric stovetops is proving to be a hard sell—a sentiment the natural-gas industry has seized on.

Adam Neumann and Masayoshi Son pushed WeWork to new heights. When their relationship unraveled, WeWork did too.