The internet company Yahoo is cutting its workforce by about 15% in an attempt to improve its profitability.

Chinese chemicals group ChemChina offers more than $43bn (£30bn) to take over Swiss agribusiness giant Syngenta.

General Motors Co (GM.N) rode sales of SUVs and pickup trucks in North America to a record profit in 2015, and the automaker reaffirmed its expectation to do better this year despite signs that vehicle sales are hitting a peak.

Retrophin Inc has agreed to pay $3 million to resolve a lawsuit by investors accusing the pharmaceutical company of failing to disclose various transactions that benefited former Chief Executive Officer Martin Shkreli, who has since been indicted for securities…

Russian anti-corruption campaigner and opposition figure Alexei Navalny said on Thursday he had filed a lawsuit against Vladimir Putin after a company in which the Russian leader's son-in-law is a shareholder received $1.75 billion in state support.

The e-commerce giant may have better options for building out a logistics network.

Stocks are inching lower Thursday after a three-day rally. Consumer stocks are sliding after Wal-Mart reported disappointing results and cut its sales projections, and bank stocks are giving up some of their recent gains. KEEPING SCORE: The Dow Jones industrial…

US online car-hire service Uber is losing more than $1bn a year in China, as it struggles against "fierce" local competition, its CEO says.

Google's parent Alphabet is stuck in an antitrust probe that could open the door for competitors like Facebook, says Robert Cryan in Breakingviews.

Germany's cartel office is investigating Facebook (FB.O) for suspected abuse of market power over breaches of data protection laws in the first formal probe of the social network for violating competition rules.

The retailer said Wednesday that it plans to close or sell about 140 stores and two distribution centers, in Denver and Chicago. The Englewood, Colorado, company has 463 stores in 41 states and Puerto Rico.

A Qatar-based media group that has already moved into international sports broadcasting has purchased a 100-percent stake in the film studio Miramax, part of its expansion into the entertainment business. The beIN Media Group, which earlier spun off from…

The Donald's unpredictable behavior would weaken the stock market, experts say.

U.S. wholesale businesses increased their stockpiles by the largest amount in five months, but their sales fell for the sixth time in the past seven months. The Commerce Department says inventories held by wholesale businesses rose 0.3 percent in January…

Amazon will lease 20 Boeing 767 widebody freighter jets for its own dedicated air cargo network in a move to speed up delivery and avoid being hostage to third-party logistics hiccups.

Volkswagen AG's top U.S. executive is stepping down nearly six months after the German automaker admitted to installing software to allow 580,000 diesel U.S. vehicles to emit excess emissions, the company said on Wednesday.

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Inc (HOT.N), the operator of Sheraton and Westin hotels, said on Friday it planned to accept a raised buyout offer from a group led by China's Anbang Insurance and scrap its deal with Marriott International Inc (MAR.O).

Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide Inc (HOT.N) on Monday agreed to a higher $13.6 billion offer from Marriott International Inc (MAR.O), a proposal that trumped a bid by China's Anbang Insurance Group Co.

Brazil's state-run oil company, Petrobras, reported a record quarterly loss of $10.2 billion Monday due to a large reduction in the value of some assets amid lower oil prices. Petrobras has been at the center of a sprawling corruption scandal that has ensnared…

Albert Allaham came to the United States from Syria in 1999 when he was 13 years old to live with family who had settled in New York City. After graduating high school at the age of 17, he went int...