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Chipotle raised its menu prices by about 3.5% to 4% to cover the cost of higher wages for employees, the company’s Chief Financial Officer John…
Continue ReadingChipotle raised its menu prices by about 3.5% to 4% to cover the cost of higher wages for employees, the company’s Chief Financial Officer John…
Continue ReadingSenator Mitt Romney wants answers from Microsoft after the company blocked images and videos around the world of “Tank Man,” the…
Continue ReadingFormer Florida Senator and veteran of spaceflight, Bill Nelson, has taken the helm at NASA. The space agency has the ball rolling on plans to return…
Continue ReadingMove over, AMC and GameStop. Wendy’s is the latest hot stock with the WallStreetBets crowd. Shares of Wendy’s surged more than 25% in…
Continue ReadingAmerica is not yet back to its pre-pandemic normal, but some states are already doing better economically than they were before Covid, according to…
Continue ReadingCountless websites and apps around the world went down for about an hour Tuesday after Fastly, a major content delivery network, reported a…
Continue ReadingAmerica is hiring like never before. Job openings in the United States soared by nearly a million in April, setting a record for the most openings…
Continue ReadingThe Boeing 737 Max is back in the air, and air travel is finally rebounding, helping restart orders for new planes. But Boeing is still facing a…
Continue ReadingStarbucks will let customers bring their own mugs to US company-owned cafes again starting on June 22. Before the pandemic, the coffee chain…
Continue ReadingAmerica is hiring like never before. Job openings in the United States soared by nearly a million in April, setting a record for the most openings…
Continue ReadingThe historic agreement from the world’s richest nations to impose a global minimum tax doesn’t pose much of a threat to Corporate…
Continue ReadingBitcoin is plummeting yet again. The cryptocurrency has fallen roughly 8% over the past 24 hours, according to Coindesk, and was trading near $33,200…
Continue ReadingGap is finally showing off a first look at its new Yeezy collection with Kanye West nearly a year after the retailer signed the rapper. The first…
Continue ReadingThis article is adapted from the new edition of “Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth,” which was…
Continue ReadingEl Salvador could become the first country to adopt bitcoin as a legal tender, Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele announced in a video recording…
Continue ReadingUS stock indices remain in record territory. But in recent weeks, they’ve been stuck in a holding pattern as investors hunt for the next big…
Continue ReadingOmniFoods, the Hong Kong startup best known for its fake pork product “OmniPork,” is jumping on what it sees as the next phenomenon:…
Continue ReadingJeff Bezos will be flying to space on the first crewed flight of the New Shepard, the rocket ship made by his space company, Blue Origin. The flight…
Continue ReadingApple kicked off its annual developers conference on Monday by unveiling new features on iOS 15 that cater to our lives as the world begins to emerge…
Continue ReadingBurger King is making a statement during pride month: It’s trying to get a leg up in the chicken sandwich wars by taking a not-so-subtle dig at…
Continue ReadingA half-dozen AMC leaders are cashing in on the “meme stock” madness. Four AMC executives and a pair of directors unloaded more than $8…
Continue ReadingAmerica’s stores are having trouble bringing on staff to meet growing demand from customers as the US economy regains steam. So they’re…
Continue ReadingBatteries are heavy. That’s why, generally, electric cars weigh considerably more than otherwise similar gasoline-powered vehicles. Take the…
Continue ReadingApple kicked off its annual developers conference on Monday by unveiling updates to a service many have relied on more heavily throughout the…
Continue ReadingGoogle will pay a €220 million ($270 million) fine and make changes to its huge online advertising business as part of an antitrust settlement with…
Continue ReadingThe list of high-profile ransomware attacks grows longer and more alarming by the week, impacting everything from gas pipelines and meat supplies to…
Continue ReadingThe list of high-profile ransomware attacks grows longer and more alarming by the week, impacting everything from gas pipelines and meat supplies to…
Continue ReadingThough bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are the talk of the moment, the good old US dollar still reigns as the world’s reserve currency. But…
Continue ReadingIn a 1916 issue of The Atlantic Monthly, John D. Rockefeller Jr. wrote about workers’ right to organize. More than 100 years later, the…
Continue ReadingElon Musk is pulling the plug on his promised Tesla Model S Plaid+ super car about a year before it was expected to go on sale. Tesla still plans a…
Continue ReadingElon Musk is pulling the plug on his promised Tesla Model S Plaid+ super car about a year before it was expected to go on sale. Tesla still plans a…
Continue ReadingApple is about to reveal its latest set of changes to the software used everyday by millions of people — and possibly some new gadgets, too.…
Continue ReadingAs CEO of one of America’s biggest banks, Bank of America’s Brian Moynihan has unique insight into the health of the country’s…
Continue ReadingTinder, Hinge, Bumble and other dating apps will allow more users to show whether they have been vaccinated against Covid-19 and roll out perks to…
Continue ReadingUS oil prices hit $70 a barrel on Sunday for the first time in nearly three years. While prices have since backed off a little from that milestone…
Continue ReadingWhen Janice Zhang went job hunting in March, at every interview the 33-year-old was asked the same question: Was she married yet? Zhang works in…
Continue ReadingRevamped MacBooks. Updated iMessage features. An overhaul of the iPad operating system. These are among the announcements Apple may make this week…
Continue ReadingThe White House press briefing room will return to 100% capacity on Monday after 15 months of social distancing due to the coronavirus pandemic. It…
Continue ReadingJournalists may be relieved — for now — that the Biden administration is changing the Justice Department’s policy that allowed prosecutors…
Continue ReadingMicrosoft blocked images and videos around the world of “Tank Man,” the unidentified protester during China’s brutal crackdown on…
Continue ReadingIt’s only June, but Walmart already has plans for Thanksgiving. They don’t involve you. The world’s largest retailer announced that…
Continue ReadingThe latest sign of air travel returning to normal is the two words being repeated at most of the nation’s major airlines: Help wanted. The…
Continue ReadingLooking to fund big spending projects at home, the United States has an ambitious pitch for countries around the world: It’s time to overhaul…
Continue ReadingA group of private equity firms, including Blackstone Group, Carlyle Group and Hellman & Friedman, is buying medical supply maker and distributor…
Continue ReadingJust when we thought Crocs could not get any weirder, a new version of the foam clog features a psychedelic design complete with light-up mushrooms.…
Continue ReadingGroup of Seven finance ministers gathering in London agreed Saturday to back a global minimum tax of at least 15% on multinational companies. The G7…
Continue ReadingWhen coronavirus began to spread across the United States, retailers took action. Social distancing stickers were slapped on floors, mask mandates…
Continue ReadingGrant McGurn is really glad he jumped on a FaceTime call with his dad. The 27-year-old office manager in Madison, Wisconsin, had put all of his…
Continue ReadingNASA’s new chief is setting up an effort to further study unidentified flying objects within his first month in office. Bill Nelson, the former…
Continue ReadingGlobal food prices rose for the 12th month in a row in May, up nearly 40% year over year, according to the United Nations’ food price index.…
Continue ReadingNASA’s new chief is setting up an effort to further study unidentified flying objects within his first month in office. Bill Nelson, the former…
Continue ReadingThe United States has for decades enjoyed a mutually beneficial relationship with Russia that has often served as a powerful symbol of cooperation…
Continue ReadingInvestors breathed a huge sigh of relief following the May jobs report Friday. Stocks rallied as the numbers told a classic Goldilocksian, not too…
Continue ReadingPeople are paying higher prices for everything from diapers to gas. One discount chain says that’s great for its business. Five Below, the toy,…
Continue ReadingOne Wall Street analyst has had it with the whole meme stock phenomenon. Curtis Nagle, who covers retailers for Bank of America, is giving up trying…
Continue Reading“The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It,” the seventh film in the horror franchise, hits theaters on Friday. It ends a crazy week for the…
Continue ReadingFacebook announced Friday that former President Donald Trump would be suspended from its platform until at least January 7th, 2023 — two years…
Continue ReadingAmericans are gearing up for a celebratory summer by buying more lipstick, dressy clothing and condoms. And bars are ready to greet them. During the…
Continue ReadingFacebook on Friday plans to announce new rules for world leaders who use its platform, a source familiar with the plan tells CNN Business, in a move…
Continue ReadingAmerica’s job market recovery picked up some steam in May, with 559,000 positions added back to the economy. It was a second sizable miss of…
Continue ReadingThe number of African Americans serving on boards of directors for the nation’s largest corporations has remained dismally low this year…
Continue ReadingThe price of bitcoin sank on Friday after Elon Musk appeared to lament the end of his relationship with the cryptocurrency. The Tesla CEO tweeted a…
Continue ReadingFacebook on Friday plans to announce new rules for world leaders who use its platform that could limit what politicians can get away with posting, a…
Continue ReadingFacebook is confronting two separate antitrust investigations by European regulators that will probe whether the social network’s use of data…
Continue ReadingFederal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell acknowledged serious risks the climate crisis poses to the world economy and called for a coordinated response…
Continue ReadingFrom Wall Street to Washington, everyone is waiting for the latest US jobs report. What’s happening: The US Labor Department releases data for…
Continue ReadingA major gas pipeline. Dozens of government agencies. A Florida city’s water supply. And now, one of the world’s top meat producers. The…
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden has expanded a Trump-era ban on American investment in dozens of Chinese firms that Washington believes are linked to…
Continue ReadingUnited Airlines announced a deal to buy 15 supersonic jets, planning to carry passengers on the ultra-fast planes by 2029. If the airline can follow…
Continue ReadingChina’s yuan is stronger than it has been since the start of the US-China trade war. That has left Beijing in a pickle. If the currency…
Continue ReadingThe Biden administration’s ambitious plan to overhaul the global tax system is about to face a crucial test. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen…
Continue ReadingA version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. Thursday was the…
Continue ReadingIn late February 2020, Microsoft carried out the first official test of its ElectionGuard voting security software in an election in Fulton,…
Continue ReadingFor years, Ford would build its Transit Connect vans in Turkey, then ship them to the United States, where the windows and seats were immediately…
Continue ReadingAMC’s comeback, and then some — its stock price surged to a record high on Wednesday — has been fueled by Reddit’s army of retail…
Continue ReadingA major gas pipeline. Dozens of government agencies. A Florida city’s water supply. And now, one of the world’s top meat producers. The…
Continue ReadingWell before Citizen, a controversial real-time crime alerting app, raised eyebrows by testing a company-branded patrol car on the streets of Los…
Continue ReadingThe Federal Reserve announced Wednesday that it will begin winding down a program that purchased tens of billions of dollars of corporate assets to…
Continue ReadingWalmart is rolling out a new app for its employees and giving them a new Samsung phone to use it. The retailer is outfitting nearly half of its US…
Continue ReadingAMC’s comeback, and then some — its stock price surged to a record high on Wednesday — has been fueled by Reddit’s army of retail…
Continue ReadingAMC’s comeback, and then some — its stock price surged to a record high on Wednesday — has been fueled by Reddit’s army of retail…
Continue ReadingMassive turnover rates. Dissatisfaction with pay. Demanding bosses. Some workers who helped Amazon take advantage of the business opportunity the…
Continue ReadingPeloton is introducing pricing tiers for its app — and students, health care workers and military members will receive major discounts. The app,…
Continue ReadingTwitter is not caving — yet — to users’ demands for an “edit” button, but it is offering something close: an “undo…
Continue ReadingThe jobs recovery has slowed since last year’s buoyant rebound. And now a summer lull may be upon us before the return to in-person schooling…
Continue ReadingSome of the world’s largest companies are joining forces to accelerate efforts to fight the climate crisis. Amazon, Disney, Google, Microsoft,…
Continue ReadingOnline marketplace Etsy announced Wednesday it is expanding into the booming clothing resale space by acquiring Gen Z-focused reseller Depop for…
Continue ReadingClimate change poses serious risks to the stability of the financial system, a senior International Monetary Fund official told CNN Business. Tobias…
Continue ReadingMeme stock mania is back in full force — and this time around, companies are trying to use the hype to their advantage. What’s happening: AMC…
Continue ReadingThe number of African Americans serving on boards of directors for the nation’s largest corporations has remained dismally low this year…
Continue ReadingNike and other major sponsors have come out in support of tennis star Naomi Osaka following her decision to withdraw from the French Open. The sports…
Continue ReadingPrice are rising quickly across huge swaths of the developed world, with inflation in countries that belong to the Organization for Economic…
Continue ReadingEven as meat producer JBS resumed operations at many of its US beef plants nationwide Wednesday after a cyberattack shut down all beef production at…
Continue ReadingDogecoin is going to the moon again. The canine-themed digital currency soared more than 25% Wednesday to about 40 cents. Investors cheered the news…
Continue ReadingExxonMobil said it expects a third activist shareholder will be elected to its board of directors, following a contentious vote. Votes are still…
Continue ReadingThe US government announced new, suspended tariffs on Wednesday against six countries in response to those governments’ digital services taxes,…
Continue ReadingSome shoppers may want to brace themselves for yet another possible supply crunch — this time with meat. Major beef and pork producer JBS USA…
Continue ReadingThe hits keep coming. Shares of AMC — the largest movie theater chain in the world — surged more than 120% Wednesday to a new peak above $70…
Continue ReadingA ransomware attack has disrupted ferry services in Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket. The region’s Steamship Authority announced…
Continue ReadingA version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. Tuesday was the first…
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