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Travelers had hoped this holiday season would represent a return to relative normalcy. Instead, pilots are out and delays are piling up. Thousands of frustrated travelers hoping to fly to [...]

The agreement's national scope and its concessions to organizing go further than any previous settlement that the e-commerce giant has made. SEATTLE -- Amazon, which faces mounting scrutiny over worker [...]

ENVIRONMENT $43 Million Settlement Over Ongoing Oil Leak The Justice Department announced Wednesday that Louisiana-based Taylor Energy will pay $43 million in civil penalties and damages for a leak in [...]

Amazon, which has its highest employment during the holiday shopping season, said the tornado formed at the site's parking lot. Nearly every day as Christmas nears, Amazon's share of online [...]

COMPANIES Intel Is Planning to Take Automotive Unit Public Intel announced on Monday that Mobileye, a subsidiary in Israel that builds driver-assistance technology for major carmakers, will go public next [...]

The workers had spent months collecting signatures to call for an election. Workers at four Amazon warehouses on Staten Island have withdrawn their request for a union vote, throwing into [...]

Byline: Jodi Kantor, Karen Weise and Grace Ashford A year ago, Tara Jones, an Amazon warehouse worker in Oklahoma, cradled her newborn, glanced over her pay stub on her phone [...]

The company's profit was lower, largely because of higher labor costs and huge investments in its delivery network. Amazon on Thursday posted its slowest sales growth in almost seven years [...]

Google's Profit and Revenue Soared in the Third Quarter Google's parent company, Alphabet, shrugged off any concerns about a downturn in online advertising with another quarter of blockbuster earnings, lifted [...]

The outcome could bring a second unionization vote at an Amazon warehouse in less than a year. A fledgling union of employees at four Amazon warehouses on Staten Island demonstrated [...]

A year ago, Tara Jones, an Amazon warehouse worker in Oklahoma, cradled her newborn, glanced over her pay stub on her phone and noticed that she had been underpaid by [...]

The organizers say they will have enough signatures by Monday to file for an election with the National Labor Relations Board. The company is pushing back. Tucked in four plastic [...]

The Microsoft-owned service had censored posts in China, in compliance with the country's laws, to operate there. SEATTLE -- LinkedIn said on Thursday that it was shutting down its professional [...]

FINANCE KKR Co-Founders Kravis and Roberts Step Down Henry Kravis and George Roberts, the private equity titans who founded KKR with Jerome Kohlberg Jr. in 1976, are handing over the [...]

ECONOMY Yellen Says She Supports Ending the Debt Limit Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen said on Thursday that she supported proposed legislation to abolish the statutory debt limit, arguing that [...]

Amazon has settled with two of its most prominent internal critics, staving off a public hearing over accusations that the company illegally fired the pair, lawyers for the parties told [...]

ENERGY Chevron to Put $10 Billion Into Lowering Emissions Chevron announced on Tuesday that it would more than triple its modest spending on green energy by 2028, including investments in [...]

Byline: Karen Weise and Michael Corkery Proof that the online future has arrived: The biggest e-commerce company outside China has unseated the biggest brick-and-mortar seller. SEATTLE - Amazon has eclipsed [...]

Proof that the online future has arrived: The biggest e-commerce company outside China has unseated the biggest brick-and-mortar seller. SEATTLE -- Amazon has eclipsed Walmart to become the world's largest [...]

BlackRock and Wells Fargo also delayed their mandatory returns until October. Both attributed the changes to new developments in the spread of Covid-19. More large corporations, including Amazon, BlackRock and [...]

AMAZON Profit Jumps to $7.8 Billion Amazon said on Thursday that it made more money in the latest quarter compared with last year -- a lot more. The company said [...]

TECHNOLOGY Apple's Quarterly Profits SurgeAs More Rely on Its Products Apple's profits nearly doubled in the latest quarter, showing that the world's richest and most valuable public company is exhibiting [...]

Automobiles G.M. Recalls Bolt Cars Over Risk of Battery Fires General Motors is recalling nearly 51,000 Chevrolet electric cars in the United States whose battery modules have been found to [...]

Byline: Karen Weise An unusual number of vice presidents are leaving for prominent jobs at public companies or high-growth start-ups. SEATTLE - When Andy Jassy is elevated to chief executive [...]

An unusual number of vice presidents are leaving for prominent jobs at public companies or high-growth start-ups. SEATTLE -- When Andy Jassy is elevated to chief executive of Amazon on [...]

Byline: Jodi Kantor, Karen Weise and Grace Ashford Outsiders see a business success story for the ages. Many insiders see an employment system under strain. An Amazon worker tries to [...]

Each year, hundreds of thousands of workers churn through a vast mechanism that hires and monitors, disciplines and fires. Amid the pandemic, the already strained system lurched. Last September, Ann [...]

Byline: Brooks Barnes, Nicole Sperling and Karen Weise Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, while diminished, commanded a premium price, with Amazon seeking to bolster its crucial Prime membership offering. LOS ANGELES - In the [...]

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, while diminished, commanded a premium price, with Amazon seeking to bolster its crucial Prime membership offering. LOS ANGELES -- In the ultimate symbol of one Hollywood era ending and [...]

The District of Columbia said in a lawsuit that Amazon had stopped merchants that use its platform from charging lower prices for the same products elsewhere online. WASHINGTON -- The [...]

The tool has faced scrutiny from lawmakers and some employees inside Amazon who said they were worried that it led to unfair treatment of African-Americans. Amazon said Tuesday that it [...]

AMAZON Profits Soar 220% Amid Virus With the pandemic shifting sales online and consumers flush with stimulus checks, Amazon on Thursday reported $108.5 billion in sales in the first three [...]

TECHNOLOGY Alphabet Profits Double,Bolstered by Google Ads Google's parent company, Alphabet, said on Tuesday that revenue in its most recent quarter increased sharply from the same period a year ago, [...]

Pay, benefits and an aggressive anti-union campaign by the company helped generate votes at a warehouse in Alabama. When Graham Brooks received his ballot in early February, asking whether he [...]

By acquiring a provider of artificial-intelligence software, the tech giant is hoping to bolster its offerings for the fast-growing field of medical computing. Microsoft said on Monday that it would [...]

The company's decisive victory deals a crushing blow to organized labor, which had hoped the time was ripe to start making inroads. Amazon workers at a giant warehouse in Alabama [...]

With about half the ballots counted late Thursday, votes against unionization had a more than 2-to-1 advantage, according to a tally by The New York Times. Amazon appeared well on [...]

The two employees had publicly pushed the company to reduce its impact on climate change and address concerns about its warehouse workers. SEATTLE -- Amazon illegally retaliated against two of [...]

The outcome of a vote at a warehouse in Alabama could have far-ranging implications for both the company and the labor movement. SEATTLE -- By the end of Monday, thousands [...]

An acquisition of Discord, a chat app for gamers, would buttress Microsoft's gaming business. SAN FRANCISCO -- Discord, a social media company popular with gamers, has held deal talks with [...]

An acquisition of Discord, which could top $10 billion, would buttress Microsoft's gaming business, as video gaming has boomed in the pandemic. SAN FRANCISCO -- Discord, a social media company [...]

The unionization effort, which began last summer, is the largest and most viable organizing campaign among Amazon workers in the United States. The most closely watched union election in recent [...]

Her new husband, Dan Jewett, is a high school science teacher. He has pledged to work with her in giving away much of her billions. The billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott [...]

Byline: Michael Corkery and Karen Weise A vote on whether to form a union at the e-commerce giant's warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., has become a labor showdown, drawing the attention [...]

A vote on whether to form a union at the e-commerce giant's warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., has become a labor showdown, drawing the attention of N.F.L. players, and the White [...]

The case focuses on two of the company's facilities in New York. New York's attorney general, Letitia James, sued Amazon on Tuesday evening, arguing that the company provided inadequate safety [...]

Byline: Karen Weise and Daisuke Wakabayashi Mr. Jassy, who will become Amazon's chief this summer, has spent more than two decades absorbing lessons from Mr. Bezos. SEATTLE - In 2002, [...]

Mr. Jassy, who will become Amazon's chief this summer, has spent more than two decades absorbing lessons from Mr. Bezos. SEATTLE -- In 2002, Andy Jassy, a young executive at [...]

Andy Jassy, the chief of Amazon's cloud computing division, will become chief executive, while Mr. Bezos, the company's founder, will become executive chairman. SEATTLE -- When Jeff Bezos founded an [...]

The article reports on technological updates, particularly on how the release of the ChatGPT artificial intelligence program by startup firm OpenAI in November 2022 compelled major companies like Google to develop similar products. Also cited are the reasons why Google perceived ChatGPT as a risk to its business model, and the questions about the program's safety.