BUSINESS

Q: Who Found a Way to Crack the U.K.’s Premier Quiz Show?

Q: Who Found a Way to Crack the U.K.’s Premier Quiz Show?

Brandon Blackwell, a 30-year-old from Queens, helped turn London’s Imperial Coll...

Mercedes-Benz Workers in Alabama Ask for Unionization Vote

Mercedes-Benz Workers in Alabama Ask for Unionization Vote

The United Automobile Workers union is mounting its most ambitious effort to gai...

Want to Invest in SpaceX or Stripe? There’s a Fund for That.

Want to Invest in SpaceX or Stripe? There’s a Fund for ...

A new publicly traded fund allows individual investors to own a piece of 23 priv...

Plan to Stash Pollution Beneath the Sea Could Save Money and Jobs

Plan to Stash Pollution Beneath the Sea Could Save Mone...

The Italian energy giant Eni sees future profits from collecting carbon dioxide ...

China’s Young People Are Giving Up on Saving for Retirement

China’s Young People Are Giving Up on Saving for Retire...

Citing a rapidly aging society, difficult job market and uncertainty about the f...

Did One Guy Just Stop a Huge Cyberattack?

Did One Guy Just Stop a Huge Cyberattack?

A Microsoft engineer noticed something was off on a piece of software he worked ...

Disney Fends Off Activist Investor for Second Time in 2 Years

Disney Fends Off Activist Investor for Second Time in 2...

Nelson Peltz had campaigned for two seats on Disney’s board of directors, as he ...

Deal Talks Between Paramount and Skydance Heat Up

Deal Talks Between Paramount and Skydance Heat Up

David Ellison, the founder of the Skydance media company, met with Paramount’s b...

Tesla’s Sales Drop, a Sign That Its Grip on the E.V. Market Is Slipping

Tesla’s Sales Drop, a Sign That Its Grip on the E.V. Ma...

Sales of the company’s electric cars dropped in the first three months of the ye...

Warner Bros. Discovery Directors Step Down Amid Antitrust Inquiry

Warner Bros. Discovery Directors Step Down Amid Antitru...

The Justice Department was investigating whether the two violated a law forbiddi...

Poor Nations Are Writing a New Handbook for Getting Rich

Poor Nations Are Writing a New Handbook for Getting Rich

Economies focused on exports have lifted millions out of poverty, but epochal ch...

Will A.I. Boost Productivity? Companies Sure Hope So.

Will A.I. Boost Productivity? Companies Sure Hope So.

Economists doubt that artificial intelligence is already visible in productivity...

Google to Delete Billions of Chrome Browser Records in Latest Settlement

Google to Delete Billions of Chrome Browser Records in ...

The internet giant resolved a lawsuit that claimed it had deceived users by trac...

China’s Advancing Efforts to Influence the U.S. Election Raise Alarms

China’s Advancing Efforts to Influence the U.S. Electio...

China has adopted some of the same misinformation tactics that Russia used ahead...

As Graffiti Moves From Eyesore to Amenity, Landlords Try to Cash In

As Graffiti Moves From Eyesore to Amenity, Landlords Tr...

Brands, developers and even city officials are embracing the global appeal of st...

Fed Chair Says Central Bank Need Not ‘Hurry’ to Cut Rates

Fed Chair Says Central Bank Need Not ‘Hurry’ to Cut Rates

Jerome Powell said that strong economic growth gives Federal Reserve officials r...