Apple said it removed WhatsApp and Threads from its China app offerings Friday on Beijing’s orders, amid technological tensions between the U.S. and China.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/technology/apple-whatsapp-china-app-store.html
The 136-year-old company’s products have been staples in American Jewish households for generations. After a major rebranding, the matzo ball soup comes with merch.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/19/business/manischewitz-passover-rebrand.html
Jalen Brunson, Josh Hart and Donte DiVincenzo have been buddies since college, a situation that those who study the workplace say can foster success.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/19/business/knick-brunson-hart-divincenzo-friends.html
In an effort to reach an increasingly diverse customer base, brewers are turning over some of their equipment to producing wine.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/19/dining/drinks/brewery-wine.html
Over the course of a career, the high fees and a lower-quality menu of investment options found in some plans can shrink your balance significantly.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/19/business/401k-fees-retirement.html
Two ex-contestants on “The Apprentice” sold the former president on the idea of a social media platform. Now, the company and the pair are wrangling over their stake.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/business/trump-media-ownership-fight.html
The company and Apollo Global Management are discussing a joint effort, even as Paramount conducts exclusive merger negotiations with Skydance.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/business/paramount-sony-apollo-bid.html
The president is increasingly hitting back with tariffs and other measures meant to restrict imports, raising tensions with Beijing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/us/politics/china-exports-biden-industrial-agenda.html
The company’s revenue was 15 percent higher compared with last year, and it solidified its standing as the entertainment company’s dominant streaming service.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/business/media/netflix-earnings.html
Rates on 30-year mortgages — the most common kind among U.S. homeowners — surpassed the 7 percent mark on Thursday, a troublesome sign for an already tight housing market.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/business/mortgage-rates.html
Tigran Gambaryan, an American compliance official for the giant cryptocurrency exchange Binance, flew to Nigeria in February for a planned two-day business trip. He hasn’t returned.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/technology/binance-crypto-compliance-officer-nigerian-prison.html
Hipgnosis, which owns the rights to songs by Justin Bieber and Neil Young, helped kick-start a rush on catalog sales. But its future has been in doubt.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/arts/music/hipgnosis-songs-fund-sell-concord.html
Since the collapse of the Key Bridge, other East Coast ports have absorbed the cargo previously handled in Baltimore, but some parts of the supply chain like trucking are struggling.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/17/business/ports-truckers-baltimore-bridge.html
Bitcoin aficionados are hoping that a scheduled reduction in the number of new coins going into circulation will cause the price of the cryptocurrency to skyrocket.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/technology/bitcoin-halving-countdown.html
Users of Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and Messenger will be able to turn to the new technology, powered by Meta’s latest artificial intelligence model, to obtain information and complete tasks...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/technology/meta-ai-assistant-push.html
The company has told countries that it can supply only 18.8 million of the 29.6 million doses it was contracted to deliver this year.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/health/hpv-vaccine-africa-merck.html
Speaking to the United Steelworkers union in Pittsburgh, the president urged major increases to some tariffs on steel and aluminum products from China.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/17/us/politics/biden-trump-china-tariffs.html
A legislative maneuver in the House may help an effort to force the divestment of the video platform by its Chinese owner, which would squeeze U.S. investors.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/business/dealbook/congress-tiktok-divest.html
Court records, mistakenly made public, tell a story about the birth of ByteDance, its bumpy road to success and the role of the Republican megadonor Jeff Yass’s firm.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/business/tiktok-bytedance-jeff-yass.html
Donald Trump’s social media platform has outdistanced similar conservative sites such as Parler and Gettr, even as it lags far behind X and others.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/technology/truth-social-right-wing-apps.html
The records briefly surfaced in a lawsuit involving the Republican megadonor Jeff Yass’s firm.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/business/bytedance-records-tiktok.html
Have your out-of-network insurance bills skyrocketed? Chris Hamby, an investigative reporter for The Times, may have an explanation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/insider/medical-insurance-costs.html
More competition and flagging demand for electric vehicles has led to declining sales at Tesla.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/15/business/ev-car-sales-tesla.html
Artists across pop genres are finding success with colored vinyl and different variants of their releases. For Swifties, the urge to collect them all is strong.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/17/arts/music/taylor-swift-albums-versions-vinyl.html
A new measure attempts to force the Senate’s hand on passing legislation to ban TikTok or mandate the app’s sale.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/17/technology/tiktok-ban-ukraine-israel-aid.html
The company’s directors are asking shareholders to again approve the multibillion-dollar compensation plan and to move the company’s registration to Texas, from Delaware.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/17/business/tesla-elon-musk-pay.html
It has been replaced by a new model, which will be used in automotive manufacturing. A farewell video featured the old machine running outdoors, performing back flips and awkwardly shimmying.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/17/technology/humanoid-robot-boston-dynamics-atlas-retires.html
Sam Salehpour, an engineer at Boeing for over a decade, testified that the company introduced production shortcuts in an attempt to address bottlenecks.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/17/us/politics/whistle-blower-boeing-787-dreamliner.html
Uri Berliner, who has worked at NPR for 25 years, said in an essay last week that the nonprofit had allowed progressive bias to taint its coverage.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/17/business/media/uri-berliner-npr-resigns.html
More countries are embracing measures meant to encourage their own security and independence, a trend that some say could slow global growth.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/17/business/economy/industrial-policies-global-economy.html
A 13-year contract with Park City, Utah, is set to expire in 2026 and the film festival is beginning a review process to see if it should move.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/17/business/media/sundance-film-festival-park-city.html
As the economy cools, pressure is building on the Bank of England to cut interest rates.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/17/business/uk-inflation-economy-interest-rates.html
Regulators are expected to meet next week to discuss the $8.5 billion deal between Coach’s owner, Tapestry, and Michael Kors’s parent company, Capri Holdings, which would create a U.S. luxury...
The United Automobile Workers hopes contract gains at the Big Three carmakers will provide momentum in a broad effort to organize nonunion plants.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/17/business/economy/volkswagen-united-auto-workers-union.html
Pop’s two reigning queens are often cast as rivals, but they have continually supported each other — and spaced out their album releases.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/16/arts/music/taylor-swift-beyonce-album-release-dates.html
The electric vehicle maker will ask shareholders to vote again on a multibillion-dollar compensation package that was voided by a judge in January.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/17/business/elon-musk-pay-package-tesla.html
In a speech to union steelworkers in Pittsburgh, the president will announce several new measures meant to raise new barriers against floods of Chinese imports.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/17/us/politics/biden-tariffs-china-steel.html
It doesn’t take a lot of work to keep copies of your phone’s photos, videos and other files stashed securely in case of an emergency.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/17/technology/personaltech/smartphone-iphone-backup.html
Chancellor Olaf Scholz tried to promote German business interests while delivering warnings from Europe about trade and geopolitical tensions.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/16/world/asia/olaf-scholz-germany-china.html
“We will be attacked,” the official responsible for fending off cyberthreats said. To prepare, organizers have been hosting war games and paying “bug bounties” to hackers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/16/world/europe/paris-olympics-cyberattacks.html
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced a new partnership with more than a dozen state attorneys general that aims to improve protections for air travelers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/16/us/politics/buttigieg-airline-complaints.html
Smartmatic, an elections technology company, had accused the conservative broadcaster of amplifying baseless claims about election fraud.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/16/business/media/smartmatic-oan-settle-defamation-suit.html
The Fed chair, along with the central bank’s No. 2 policymaker, stressed uncertainties over job growth and the persistence of elevated inflation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/16/business/powell-interest-rates-inflation.html
The company had critical and commercial hits over two decades but never made money consistently and faced a challenging entertainment landscape.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/16/business/media/participant-jeff-skoll.html
Microsoft said it would invest $1.5 billion in G42, an Emirati company with ties to China, as Washington and Beijing maneuver to secure tech influence in the Persian Gulf.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/16/technology/microsoft-g42-uae-ai.html
A Senate committee sent a letter asking the bank whether it had adequately followed procedures before clearing $158 million in payments.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/16/business/senate-inquiry-leon-black-jeffrey-epstein.html
Uri Berliner, a senior business editor at NPR, said the public radio network’s liberal bias had tainted its coverage of important stories.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/16/business/media/npr-suspends-business-editor.html
China’s big bet on manufacturing helped to counteract its housing slowdown in the first three months of the year, but other countries are worried about a flood of Chinese goods.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/15/business/china-gdp-q1.html
The International Monetary Fund offered an upbeat economic outlook but said that new trade barriers and escalating wars could worsen inflation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/16/business/imf-global-economic-growth.html
The White House laid the ground work for Microsoft’s $1.5 billion investment in an Emirati artificial intelligence start-up, a deal meant to box out Beijing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/16/business/dealbook/washington-microsoft-ai-deal.html
China remains one of the most important markets for Germany’s export-driven economy, prompting a three-day visit by the German chancellor, who has stressed the importance of open markets.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/16/business/germany-china-tariffs.html
After a Boeing engineer went public with safety concerns, the company invited reporters to its South Carolina factory and top engineers vouched for the plane.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/15/business/boeing-787-dreamliner-safety-whistle-blower.html
She was a founder of the Fun Gallery, which staged early shows by Keith Haring and other artists who defined the city’s downtown scene in the 1980s.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/15/arts/patti-astor-dead.html
Funds that bet on a fall were set to profit as the parent of Truth Social came under renewed pressure after it registered new shares for a potential sale.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/15/business/trump-media-stock.html
Katherine Maher, who took over the public network last month, posted years ago on Twitter that “Donald Trump is a racist.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/15/business/media/npr-chief-executive-criticized-over-tweets.html
American recently relaxed its rules for pets traveling inside the cabin with their owners. Here’s what the major U.S. airlines require to travel with a pet.
https://www.nytimes.com/article/pets-airlines-requirements.html
Which A.I. system writes the best computer code or generates the most realistic image? Right now, there’s no easy way to answer those questions.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/15/technology/ai-models-measurement.html