Business

During the coronavirus pandemic, Skype could've been the top app for video conferencing. But instead, we're all on Zoom. What went wrong?

Can they get back on track?

And why the hardest decisions are yet to come.

Amazon, which provides the technical backbone of ICE and plotted to smear a fired Black organizer, says it "stands in solidarity with the Black community" in the "fight against racism and injustice." And that's just the beginning.

The airlines are facing an existential crisis, yet no one in power is inclined or even equipped to intervene.

Rural Oklahoma communities are desperate to hand the reins to management companies that say they're turnaround experts. Instead some companies failed the hospitals, bled them dry and expedited their demise.

There is no federal tracking of tear gas usage by US law enforcement.

If the numbers are to be believed, it's a steal of a deal for Spotify: for $100-$200mm they secured the largest podcast audience in the world.

An analysis of COVID-19's spread in Japan suggests theaters may not be especially susceptible to outbreaks — provided the right guidelines are in place.

The federal government and states have fueled an unregulated, chaotic market for masks ruled by oddballs, ganjapreneurs and a shadowy network of investors.

Local California officials worked to ensure Tesla's Fremont facility reopened with proper safety guidelines amid public pressure from carmaker's celebrity CEO, emails show

In five years, Monzo has become the darling of the UK fintech scene, but now it faces its biggest challenge yet: evolving from scrappy startup to major player

There are companies out there that have survived through centuries of ups and downs. So what are the oldest surviving companies?

For far too many Americans, it is easier to mourn the destruction of a series of chain stores, owned and operated by millionaires, than the death of a Black American.

Four years after HR outfit Zenefits blew up, its controversial founder is back with Rippling, another startup to automate human resources. It's already worth $300 million and growing fast. Can Parker Conrad find redemption?

Sources told Bloomberg that Coachella, currently set to take place in October, is asking some artists to perform in 2021. It's the clearest sign yet that the festival won't take place in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Expect hundreds of thousands of the company's cars to show up at used car dealerships soon. That will have carryover effects for carmakers.

The retail Armageddon may have finally arrived. Here's what top executives think it'll take for stores and brands to make it through.

Reopening restaurant dining rooms still puts customers and employees at risk. So why is it happening?

Lethal new diseases are springing up at alarming rates, and modern globalized capitalism is behind it.

Just because some gyms are reopening, it doesn't mean they're necessarily safe. Public health experts explain the risks.

The crisis is a stark reminder that food delivery tech companies may have an unworkable business model

Hertz's top executives just got a massive payday to keep them on staff. There's no word yet on how workers outside its headquarters might fare.

The fashion industry is mulling big changes that could impact everything from its carbon footprint to how much things cost.

MedMen was the country's hottest pot startup — until it flamed out. Its fall has exposed the gap between "green rush" hype and the realities of a troubled industry.

Instacart promised two weeks' pay for any shopper who is quarantined because of COVID-19 — but getting that money has been hard.

A new book explains how corporations create a climate of doubt around science and expertise.

All my concerts were postponed by the coronavirus, so why can't I get a refund? It's complicated.

I'm a chef in a seaside town, not an epidemiologist. Business owners like me face a summer of uncertainty, and I'm terrified.

Talking to the podcasting king about his monster Spotify deal.

Small businesses are responsible for about half of U.S. employment, half of gross domestic product, and 40% of total business revenue. They are key to recovery but investors have largely discounted the threat their struggles pose for the broader economy.

J.C. Penney's bankruptcy is one of the most stunning falls from grace in American history.

Breaking down hazard pay, sick leave and general safety at Walmart, Target, Costco, Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, and more

La Morada, an undocumented immigrant-run restaurant in the Bronx, New York, also accuses the José Andrés-founded organization of having "ties to gentrifying forces."

It might be time to lower your summer expectations.

COVID-19 has caused volatility in seemingly everything but housing.

Pressing plant shutdowns and a drop in demand are putting the format's long-running comeback in jeopardy.

A system that relies on exploitation isn't one that should survive the pandemic. There's a better way to feed people and care for workers.

Animals that grow past target weight quickly become unsellable. Researchers are now trying to slow growth and buy time until plants reopen.

The coronavirus pandemic has dramatically transformed the global retail industry landscape. Here's a data visualization of which brands have grown and declined the most.

The company made the announcement on Tuesday, saying demand had fallen in the wake of what it called "misinformation" about the product's safety amid a barrage of legal challenges.

For all the high-minded talk among techies, their new favorite app is an invite-only (so far) social network for mingling with one another.

Imagine this: the year is 2013. You've got 25 billion dollars you'd like to flush down the toilet, but your personal commode simply can't handle an entire cargo plane full of 100-dollar bills. Luckily for you, Uber is there.

How King Arthur Flour found itself in the unlikely crosshairs of a pandemic.

Examining the myth of the crisis-born startup.

If your business model is to corral the largest possible herd of unicorns and make them run up the hill as fast as possible, a lot of them are going to fall into a ravine, that is just a basic theorem of Finance 101.

Dining out right now will come with certain risks. Here's what you can do to keep yourself and others around you safe.

In response to a Sports Illustrated survey on the effects of the pandemic, minor league teams made one thing clear: an American institution will never be the same.

Facebook's big purchase of Giphy is a match made in heaven. Both companies made the web boring and predictable.

A Chicago suburb is on the hook for millions to operate the Sears Centre arena — an amount that in some years accounts for as much as 14 per cent of its budget.

Less than two weeks after Uber shared plans to lay off 3,700 employees, the company announced that it will let another 3,000 workers go.

COVID-19 will change what it's like to eat at a McDonald's so much that maybe we'll just stick to drive-through.

If someone could pay Doordash $16 a pizza, and Doordash would pay the restaurant $24 a pizza, then the restaurant owner should clearly just order pizzas himself via Doordash, all day long. Right?

For years, he was an obsessive C.E.O. in some ways, distant in others. Then Facebook's problems became too acute to leave to anyone else.

Customers trying to avoid online delivery platforms like Grubhub by calling restaurants directly might be dialing phone numbers generated and advertised by those very platforms — for which restaurants are charged fees that can sometimes exceed the income the order generates.

The original cloud kitchen, ten years before it was cool.

Food waste might seem like an odd problem to have during a pandemic, but the shuttering of restaurants, arenas, schools, and other public institutions has created a glut of fresh produce stuck on farms with no buyers.

Everyone's recasting themselves as an expert in the new business of keeping people six feet apart.

The resumption of sailing should be accompanied by a "new normal" — a rethinking of how we regulate the cruise industry.

How selling small squares of paperboard or thick paper became a lucrative business.