US Business

Allstate says the all-cash deal will help boost its business in the personal property-liability sector.

Advocates came out of a meeting with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg saying they didn’t make progress on their demands over how the social-media giant polices the platform.

The cinema chain is nearing a restructuring deal that would help stave off a near-term bankruptcy filing while turning down a competing financing offer from senior lenders including Apollo.

The global auto market is splitting three ways, complicating efforts by the industry’s main players to recover from their deepest crisis in years.

The stand taken by several American tech giants against China’s national-security law in Hong Kong reveals concerns many foreign companies in the city are discussing internally but dare not discuss publicly.

TikTok, the buzzy short-video platform owned by Chinese technology giant Bytedance, said it would pull out of Hong Kong within a week in light of “recent developments” in the city.

Google, Facebook and Twitter are among tech companies that have suspended processing requests for user data from Hong Kong law-enforcement agencies following China’s imposition of a national-security law on the city.

Palantir Technologies said it has confidentially filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission to go public, ending an extended wait that made the data analytics company one of Silicon Valley’s oldest private startups.

Congress designed the Paycheck Protection Program to help small businesses hit by the pandemic, but its $521 billion in loans also went to major law firms, wealth managers and politically connected companies.

The fight for customers among DoorDash, Grubhub, Uber Eats and rivals is going nationwide as they expand into one another’s territory.