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McDonald's Corp said on Tuesday it plans to reduce the use of antibiotics in its global beef supply, fueling projections that other restaurants will follow suit. The move by the ...

SEOUL —Samsung Electronics will cease operations at one of its mobile phone manufacturing plants in China, the company ...

SAN FRANCISCO—Defunct startup Sidecar Technologies Inc., which pioneered on-demand ride-hailing, is suing Uber Technologies Inc., alleging it engaged ...

TOKYO—A Tokyo court on Dec. 11 rejected ousted Nissan Motor chairman Carlos Ghosn's appeal to end his detention ...

Verizon Communications Inc. said on Dec. 11 it will take a $4.6 billion charge related to its Oath ...

CARACAS—Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. is halting operations in Venezuela because of dire economic conditions and U.S. sanctions, ...

TOKYO–Tokyo prosecutors indicted ousted Nissan Motor chairman Carlos Ghosn for under-reporting his income and also officially charged the ...

SAN FRANCISCO—Deep losses in Amazon Inc, Apple Inc, Facebook Inc and Alphabet Inc have left the former tech ...

ZURICH—Swiss private bank Julius Baer is in talks about transferring its Venezuelan book of business to Spain's Banco ...

NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO,—Uber Technologies Inc. has filed paperwork for an initial public offering, according to three people with ...

Amazon.com Inc. is looking at bringing its futuristic checkout-free store format to airports in an effort to win ...

NEW YORK—Utilities are shutting down at least 18 of General Electric Co.'s newest gas turbines for repairs at ...

FRANKFURT—Volkswagen has denied allegations that Chairman Hans Dieter Poetsch knew about the carmaker's emissions test cheating almost three ...

NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO—Uber Technologies Inc. has filed paperwork for an initial public offering, according to three people with ...

WASHINGTON—The top U.S. general said on Dec. 6 that it was "inexplicable" that technology giants like Alphabet Inc's ...

WASHINGTON—General Motors Chief Executive Mary Barra came under harsh criticism from members of Congress from Michigan on Dec. ...

FRANKFURT—Deutsche Bank defended its record in fighting money laundering on Dec. 6 after the Financial Times reported it ...

LONDON/STOCKHOLM—Sweden's Ericsson apologized and said it was working hard to fix a software glitch that was responsible for ...

Volkswagen AG is accelerating a push to lower costs and lift profits at its biggest car brand to ...

SAN FRANCISCO—Ride-hailing service Lyft announced in a press release on Dec. 6, it has filed with the Securities ...

When I was a boy in Boonville, North Carolina, population 600 in the early 1960s, my mom used ...

SYDNEY—The Australian parliament's lower house passed a bill to force tech firms such as Alphabet Inc's Google, Facebook ...

RIO DE JANEIRO/SAO PAULO—Trading giants Vitol, Trafigura, and Glencore paid over $30 million in bribes to employees at ...

OSAKA—Takeda Pharmaceutical has won shareholder approval for its $59 billion takeover of London-listed Shire, creating a global powerhouse ...

Robots are coming to a Walmart Inc. near you, and not just as a gimmick. The world’s largest ...

American International Group Inc. has racked up an estimated $750 million to $800 million in catastrophe losses so ...

PARIS/NEW YORK—Thumbing through a thick binder detailing European mid-sized and family-owned firms, JP Morgan's Doug Petno has his ...