Biz/Tech

Visa and fintech startup Plaid have terminated their $5.3 billion merger agreement after facing a legal challenge from the Department of Justice. The…

The fight over the future of gig economy work in California isn’t over. A labor union and a group of gig workers filed a lawsuit on Tuesday…

Just now, silence may not be that comforting. For years there has been a din on social media — from President Trump on Twitter, from right wing…

Etsy removed a “Camp Auschwitz” t-shirt from its website after a rioter was spotted wearing a shirt with the same message during the US…

Sheldon Adelson, the chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands and a major donor to Republican politicians, died late Monday following complications…

PayPal is cutting ties with Christian crowdfunding site GiveSendGo following the January 6 US Capitol siege. The site, which the far-right extremist…

The New York Times is facing fresh blowback for how it handled the fallout over falsehoods unearthed in “Caliphate,” the paper’s…

General Motors is starting a new vehicle brand to sell electric delivery vans in the United States and Canada beginning in 2021. Called BrightDrop,…

A nearly human-sized robot grabs a dish out of a crowded sink with its gripper arms and neatly adds it to the dishwasher. It then sets the table,…

CNN correspondent Sara Sidner has been covering Covid-19 grief firsthand, and on Tuesday, she shared the pain that comes with reporting on the deadly…

Corporate America has finally put its money where its mouth is — just in time for Democrats to take control of Washington. Last…

Deutsche Bank will no longer do business with President Donald Trump, a move that will cut off his business from a major source of loans that once…

Boeing ended its worst year in more than 40 years with its best month of 2020. The company reported that it delivered 39 jets to customers in…

Extremism has a knack for metastasizing and coming back to wreak havoc upon its hosts. Once a cohort or society builds a hateful mindset, the hatred…

There’s more to the market than the FAANG stocks of Big Tech. It could finally be time for dividend-paying value stocks like the so-called dogs…

A growing number of businesses suddenly want very little to do with Donald Trump after he incited a mob to attack the Capitol. That could make it…

A computer chip shortage has shut down the Louisville, Kentucky, Ford plant this week, the latest shutdown because of an industry-wide problem that…

GoFundMe will no longer allow people to fundraise for travel expenses used for potentially violent political events after pro-Trump protesters used…

Following last week’s insurrection at the US Capitol, a growing number of companies are distancing themselves from President Donald Trump and…

Crocs’ bittersweet moment has arrived in the midst of a global pandemic. The foam clog, derided by many for being “ugly,” expects…

Facebook will begin removing all content that mentions the phrase “stop the steal,” a full 69 days after Election Day. The social media…

Videos of belligerent passengers at airports — some donning pro-Trump outfits — being forced off planes or denied boarding are circulating widely…

News outlets are publishing more and more videos, photos and testimonials from Wednesday’s pro-Trump riot on Capitol Hill. And it’s…

Bitcoin prices surged to a new all-time high of nearly $42,000 on Friday, only to plunge all the way back to about $31,000 Monday morning.…

Parler, the alternative social media platform favored by the far-right, sued Amazon on Monday in response to being deplatformed, alleging an…

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused the Voice of America news service of “demeaning America” in a speech that a watchdog group…