Honda reports annual loss for the first time in nearly 70 years
The Japanese automaker posted its first annual loss since it became a publicly traded company in 1957.

JetBlue CEO Joanna Geraghty says airline will survive, despite volatile industry and rising jet fuel costs
In the ashes of Spirit Airlines, which shut down in early May, JetBlue has risen anew.

Consumers beware: Not all personal finance info should be shared with chatbots
Artificial intelligence can be a game changer for people looking to synthesize complicated information. But consumers should be careful sharing sensitive information.

eBay rejects GameStop's proposed $55 billion deal to combine companies
eBay called the big from GameStop“neither credible nor attractive.”
How Spirit's shutdown is reverberating across the travel industry
Spirit Airlines shut down Saturday morning after talks for a government bailout fell apart.
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Experimenting with different rural grocery store models
Rural grocery stores in the Midwest have been trying different business models to keep their doors open.

Supreme Court considers Monsanto's Roundup
The Supreme Court is considering whether Monsanto and its parent company, Bayer, should be shielded from lawsuits claiming that the weedkiller caused cancer.
Will Spirit Airlines get a federal bailout?
Spirit irline filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in November 2024 and again in 2025.
Meta announces its laying off 10% of its workforce
Meta is the latest technology giant to announce layoffs in 2026, amid heavy investment in artificial intelligence.
This man has allegedly been buying and returning an anvil on Amazon for almost a year
A guy in Illinois claims to be buying and returning anvils through Amazon, as a form of protest, or maybe just performance art.

The tariff refund process has begun for businesses. What about customers?
Businesses are finally able to request their tariff refunds. But customers should not expect to get most of the money they spent on tariffs back.
Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders approve $110B merger with Paramount Skydance
The merger will unify two of the oldest studios in Hollywood
What challenges will new Apple CEO face?
Apple CEO Tim Cook will step down in September and be replaced by longtime hardware and engineering lead John Ternus.

Apple's Tim Cook to step down as CEO
Senior vice president of hardware engineering, John Ternus, will become CEO in September.

The familiar strategy behind the Allbirds AI pivot
Shares of the shoe brand Allbirds soared this week after the company announced a surprising pivot to artificial intelligence.

WHOOP founder Will Ahmed on how a desire to avoid overtraining turned into a $10 billion company
As the team captain of the Harvard squash team, Will Ahmed found himself constantly overtraining. So, he decided to come up with a device that would solve that problem: WHOOP...

Jury finds Live Nation acted as a monopoly and inflated prices
A federal jury in Manhattan ruled Wednesday that Live Nation, the concert giant that owns Ticketmaster, is acting as an illegal monopoly that is driving up ticket prices for consumers.
United CEO floats American Airlines merger, Bloomberg reports
The move could create a new aviation giant.
Why some American workers are responding to pitches from other countries to move abroad
Wall Street Journal columnist Callum Borchers has been talking to people about why they’re weighing that option.

Bombas co-founder on the sock company's values and business challenges
When Randy Goldberg and David Heath learned that socks were the single most requested item at homeless shelters, they decided to do something about it.