Business

With summer vacations winding down, airlines are counting on the return of more business travelers to keep their pandemic recovery going into the fall.... Read more

Irish regulators are slapping Instagram with a big fine after an investigation found the social media platform mishandled teenagers' personal information in violation of strict European Union data privacy rules.... Read more

Amid the continuous noise about cryptocurrencies, it's often hard to pick out what really matters. However this month, if all goes to plan, the energy-hungry digital sector will undergo its biggest shake-up in years.... Read more

Cryptocurrency critics, including economists and researchers, will gather in London and online this week to get their message across to regulators about the booming but volatile sector.... Read more

Google allowed social media network Parler back into its Play Store Friday, more than a year after banning the platform popular with conservatives in the wake of the insurrection at the US Capitol.... Read more

The Federal Trade Commission is investigating Amazon's $3.9 billion acquisition of the primary health organization One Medical, a move that could delay the completion of the deal.... Read more

House Republicans are demanding that Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg hand over FBI warnings and communications that led Facebook to suppress news about President Joe Biden's son weeks before the 2020 election.... Read more

A year into the pandemic, Evan Spiegel was flying high. The chief executive of Snap said annual revenue growth of 50% or more was a "steady state opportunity" for the social media company, requiring no additional gains in audience or innovation.... Read more

On Aug. 9, President Joe Biden signed into law the CHIPS and Science Act, which invests $52 billion in domestic semiconductor manufacturing through tax credits, as well as supports STEM research and education initiatives through the National Science Foundation.... Read more

It was all quite predictable, really. Meta, Facebook's parent company, released the latest version of its groundbreaking AI chatbot in August 2022. Immediately, journalists around the world began peppering the system, called BlenderBot3, with questions about Facebook. Hilarity ensued.... Read more

A US official Thursday rejected Amazon's efforts to overturn a worker vote in favor of unionization at a New York warehouse, dismissing the retailer's election complaints as groundless.... Read more

A new U.S. tax credit aimed at encouraging Americans to buy electric vehicles may backfire and limit choices for consumers because of concerns it's weighed against European Union manufacturers, the EU trade chief said Thursday.... Read more

T-Mobile has laid off several workers in engineering and network jobs this week as part of a restructuring program after the company's merger with Sprint two years ago.... Read more

The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a report outlining seven strategic "grand challenges" in measurement, standardization, and modeling and simulation that, if met, will strengthen the U.S. semiconductor industry.... Read more

Arm Limited, a heavyweight technology partner of Qualcomm for years, has accused the San Diego company of violating chip architecture intellectual property licenses linked to a new line of high-performance processors for laptops, digital cars, smartphones and even data center servers.... Read more