HELSINKI — Finnish telecommunications company Nokia on Thursday reported improved third-quarter earnings largely in line with expectations, but acknowledged it faced challenges in the race for 5G cellular networks. Nokia said it would invest more […]
CHARLOTTE — Sales of new homes fell by 3.5% in September to a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 959,000 million units, the Commerce Department said Monday, as the housing market’s summer buying season came to a […]
Companies that retreated from corporate deal-making after the virus pandemic struck are now roaring back because of pent-up demand and a clearer view of how the disease is impacting their business. Chipmaker Nvidia’s buyout of […]
BOSTON — Seventeen years after it was born with the help of CIA seed money, the data-mining outfit Palantir Technologies is finally going public in the biggest Wall Street tech offering since last year’s debut […]
More than 50 black former McDonald’s franchise owners are suing the burger chain, saying the company steered them to less-profitable restaurants and didn’t give them the same support and opportunities given white franchisees. The 52 […]
NEW YORK — Herbalife, a Los Angeles-based health and nutrition company, bribed Chinese government officials for a decade to grow its overseas business and falsified accounting records to cover up the payments, U.S. prosecutors said […]
BERKELEY, Calif. — Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who died in 2011, was a tough act to follow. But Tim Cook seems to be doing so well at it that his eventual successor may also have […]
Up to 300 Pizza Hut restaurants will be closed, most of them dine-in locations not well suited for carryout and delivery at a time when millions of people are sheltering and eating at home. Pizza […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States added 1.8 million jobs in July, evidence that the resurgent coronavirus could be stalling hiring and slowing an economic rebound. With confirmed viral cases still elevated in much of […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Wary of possible vulnerability to coronavirus-related lawsuits, hundreds of members of South Carolina’s business community are calling on the state’s federal lawmakers to support liability protections they see as vital for the […]
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