US Business

Uber Technologies is in discussions to buy Postmates for about $2.6 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, the latest in a rapid-fire series of moves to consolidate the food-delivery industry.

Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA said it is its canceling orders for 92 of Boeing Co.’s troubled 737 MAX jets, threatening to add to the U.S. planemaker’s mounting financial strain.

Ford, Clorox and Denny’s are joining a parade of companies that have moved to halt advertising spending on Facebook because of how the social-media giant has handled speech on its platforms.

Follow a day in the life of a fictional U.S. office worker coming back after working remotely during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic.

The media rights to the United States Golf Association, which include the U.S. Open tournament, are jumping from Fox Sports to NBC Sports, according to people familiar with the matter.

Chesapeake Energy filed for bankruptcy protection as an oil- and gas-price rout stoked by the coronavirus pandemic proved to be the final blow for a shale-drilling pioneer long hamstrung by debt.

U.S. air-safety regulators are set to begin key flight tests as early as Monday, amid growing expectations by industry and government officials that the planes are likely to return to service around the end of the year.

Companies brought back office workers in May or early June only to send them home again. Others still can’t figure out how to get people up a 50-story skyscraper.

The U.S. casino industry remains a bastion of cash. But the Covid-19 pandemic has generated concern over bills circulating among hundreds of hands, and that is pushing casinos toward cashless technology.

Beijing has begun quietly delivering a message to Washington: U.S. pressure over matters China considers off limits could jeopardize Chinese purchases of farm goods and other U.S. exports under the “Phase One” trade deal.