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U.S. liquor exports fell more than $90 million last year, which a trade group blamed on trade friction with Canada and Europe after President Donald Trump imposed emergency tariffs that the Supreme Court has since overturned.

Fifty years ago, Steve Wozniak knew he built a great personal computer, but the young engineer couldn't convince his employer, Hewlett-Packard, to buy into the big idea.

It's been a tough few years for Panera and its restaurants, often still branded locally as St. Louis Bread Co. Corporate decisions to shrink portions, change ingredients and raise prices turned off customers. Last fall, CEO Paul Carbone promised a makeover. ...

NEW YORK – A federal judge on Monday granted Verizon Wireless a preliminary injunction blocking rival T-Mobile from running ads promising consumers more than $1,000 of annual savings if they switch cellphone carriers.

Global streaming revenue surged to $150 billion last year, driven largely by an increase in prices by Netflix and other streamers, according to a new report. In 2025, global streaming subscription revenue grew by 14%, reaching a total of over $157 billion, the report from Ampere Analysis found. In the last five years, revenue has tripled from the $50 billion seen in 2020. Streamers continue to ...

Major broadcast station owners said on Monday that U.S. regulators should address the trend of Big Tech companies acquiring the rights to broadcast football, baseball and other sporting events, saying it could weaken local ​TV news.

Chocolate products from a Californian company have been recalled after they were found to have been spiked with the potentially dangerous ingredients used in Viagra and Cialis. The San Francisco Bay Area's Gear Isle recalled the products after they were found to contain undeclared prescription drug ingredients used to treat erectile dysfunction, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced ...

Meta Platforms Inc. was looking like the best Big Tech stock in the market when the year began. But investors’ fears of legal risks and heavy spending on artificial intelligence are bubbling to the surface, culminating in last week’s 11% rout.

Air Canada CEO Michael Rousseau will retire by October, the airline said on Monday, after he sparked a backlash for failing to offer condolences in French, one of Canada's two official languages, over ​a crash that killed two pilots.

Companies like Virgin Galactic and Scaled Composites LLC envisioned a booming market for space tourism when said in the early 2000s they would launch humans into suborbital space. Space tourism will become a “multi-billion-dollar industry,” said Eric Anderson, co-founder of the space exploration company Space Adventures Inc., in a 2003 issue of Space Times. Now, the industry’s in crisis.

The war in Iran has sparked chaos across financial markets, leaving some investors and market makers reluctant to take on risk, making trading harder and costlier - a scenario regulators watch closely.

Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson recently signed a law that makes noncompete agreements illegal statewide. The measure, spearheaded by state Rep. Liz Berry (D-Seattle), outlaws noncompete agreements: in general, contracts that let employers forbid workers from creating or joining a competing business for a set amount of time.

 Automakers have long tried to eliminate AM radio capabilities from new vehicles. But after years of tussling between Detroit and Washington, lawmakers appear poised to pass legislation this year that would mandate automakers keep AM receivers in cars.

U.S. consumer sentiment slid to a three-month low in March and year-ahead inflation expectations jumped as the war in the Middle East drives up gasoline prices.

The European Union economy is in danger of enduring low growth combined with high inflation because of the war in the Middle East, according to the bloc’s economy chief.

The U.S. Department of Justice has sent subpoenas in its investigation of Paramount Skydance's acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Global stock markets fell and oil prices rose on Friday as fears over the Middle East conflict persisted, despite U.S. President Donald Trump's extension of a deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.