PHILADELPHIA — Bonnie Arbittier keeps a list on her phone of every jacket, bag and article of clothing she’s resisted buying so far this year.

More than three months into 2025, the list has held Arbittier accountable to her New Year’s resolution: No clothing purchases. Not even from thrift stores. Not even for special occasions.

When she...Read more

When Artie R. Williams decided it was time to kick his gas habit, he narrowed his search to three options: the Cadillac Optiq, a Porsche Macan EV and the Polestar 3. — none of which has been on the market for more than a few months.

Tesla wasn’t on the table.

“Nothing against Elon (Musk), but those vehicles have been out for so long,�...Read more

Former Medtronic chief executive and Harvard Business School executive fellow Bill George calls these times for corporate leaders “the most challenging I’ve ever seen.”

The White House this month briefly imposed, and then later paused for 90 days, many new tariffs President Donald Trump proposed on what he called “Liberation Day.” But...Read more

Alaska Airlines lost $166 million in the first quarter of 2025 but is confident it will weather the impact of tariffs and economic uncertainty as it looks to launch new trans-Pacific nonstop routes later this year.

SeaTac-based Alaska Air Group, with newly absorbed Hawaiian Airlines, reported quarterly revenue of $3.1 billion, according to ...Read more

In the three months since a Whole Foods in Philadelphia became the first unionized store in the Amazon-owned chain, at least eight employees have been fired. Some workers and their union believe they were targeted because of their support for the union.

United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1776, which represents the employees at 2101 ...Read more

Ford Motor Co.'s director of electrified propulsion engineering on Wednesday hailed a "breakthrough" in battery chemistry from the Dearborn automaker's battery research and development center in Romulus.

Ford is working to scale lithium manganese-rich cell chemistry and integrate the batteries into Ford's lineup within this decade, Charles Poon...Read more

It’s been 40 years since Atlanta-based Coca-Cola launched a new formula for its famed namesake cola, called it New Coke and prompted a national outcry — forcing the company to walk back the decision on its biggest blunder ever.

The company has never been able to live it down, and the flub became a case study in what not to do in business.

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Intel Corp. is poised to announce plans this week to cut more than 20% of its staff, aiming to eliminate bureaucracy at the struggling chipmaker, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.

The move is part of a bid to streamline management and rebuild an engineering-driven culture, the person said, asking not to be identified because ...Read more

Alphabet Inc. pays Samsung Electronics Co. an “enormous sum of money” every month to preinstall Google generative AI app, Gemini, on its phones and devices, according to court testimony, even though the company’s practice of paying for installations has twice been found to violate the law.

The company began paying Samsung for Gemini in ...Read more

The basic technology behind Ambient Photonics’s solar cells is so simple that it’s routinely assembled as a high school science experiment. In labs across the U.S., students sandwich blackberries’ potent pigment between glass to create dye-sensitized cells capable of harnessing energy from the sun.

Ambient Photonics’s process is more ...Read more

A San Diego federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a rule that the government said would crack down on money laundering but that a San Diego small business owner argued would likely force her to close down.

The rule, enacted last week by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement ...Read more

Tesla is off to a bumpy start this year.

The electric vehicle giant’s profit plunged 71% in the first quarter to $409 million as the company faced a flurry of setbacks, including looming tariffs and a brand crisis perpetuated by Chief Executive Elon Musk’s prominent role in the Trump administration.

The Austin, Texas-based company reported...Read more

Up to 100 workers at Volvo Group’s engine and transmission plant in Hagerstown will be part of hundreds of layoffs in three states amid market uncertainty and recent tariffs.

Volvo Group, a maker of heavy-duty trucks, plans to lay off as many as 800 people at facilities in Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia, a spokesman said Tuesday.

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President Trump's tariffs, along with growing land-use and environmental regulations, could devastate Southern California's nearly $300 billion trade and logistics industry in the coming years, according to a Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp. report released Tuesday.

The report, commissioned last year by the public policy group ...Read more

Amazon is obligated to collectively bargain with warehouse workers at its San Francisco distribution facility, the U.S. federal labor board says.

A complaint issued Monday by a regional director of the National Labor Relations Board accused Amazon of illegally refusing to negotiate with employees after a majority signed union authorization ...Read more

ST. LOUIS — Attorneys general from about 30 states, including Missouri, say the popular DNA testing company 23andMe shouldn't be allowed to decide on its own how to handle the genetic data of its 15 million customers as the company goes through bankruptcy.

The states are asking the court to appoint an independent consumer privacy ombudsman ...Read more