What Walmart Raises Mean for President Biden’s $15 Minimum-Wage Plan
Walmart Inc.’s pledge to lift its average hourly pay above $15 comes in the middle of a Washington debate on...
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Walmart Promises Raises for 425,000 Workers After Strong Holiday Sales
Walmart Inc. WMT -5.26% said it would raise wages for about 425,000 of its employees after a year in which...
U.S. Retail Sales Rose Strongly on Stimulus in January
U.S. shoppers sharply increased spending in January, buoyed by stimulus payments that many households received in the most recent virus-relief...
Parler Resurfaces Online After Monthlong Service Disruption
Parler, the social network popular with conservatives, has come back online after going dark when some tech companies withdrew their...
Walmart’s Covid-19 Vaccine Rollout Heads to Small Towns
Skowhegan, Maine—Pat and John Thomas were watching the news one night last week when they saw that Walmart in this...
Super Bowl Ads Go for Comedic Catharsis
Most Super Bowl advertisers took a cautious approach with their commercials Sunday night, often trying to project a sunny tone...
Everyone Wants Sushi to Go, and It’s Saving Some Restaurants
At a bleak moment for restaurants, sushi takeout is on a roll. Customer appetites for to-go sushi are rising, from...
Amazon’s New CEO Can Either Help Workers and Sellers—or Automate Them Away
Andy Jassy is taking over a very unusual “tech” company. Amazon AMZN 0.63% has many times more employees than any...
How Big Tech Got Even Bigger
The tech industry’s titans were already huge before Covid-19, the subject of soaring valuations and snowballing antitrust investigations. The pandemic...
Amazon Union Election to Proceed as Labor Board Denies Delay Request
Federal labor authorities rejected Amazon.com Inc.’s AMZN 0.63% request to delay a union election at one of its warehouses in...
Alibaba Sells $5 Billion of Bonds
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. BABA 1.34% sold $5 billion of bonds, showing investors remain eager to back the Chinese e-commerce...
Alibaba Plans Up to $5 Billion Bond Sale
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. BABA -3.85% plans to sell billions of dollars of bonds, in what will be a test...
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to Transition to Executive Chairman
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos plans to hand over the CEO role to Andy Jassy in the third quarter of 2021....
Amazon Faces Familiar Opponent in Alabama Union Election
Amazon.com Inc. AMZN -0.97% for years has successfully fended off attempts by its U.S. employees to unionize. Now the tech...
Elon Musk Joins GameStop Melee With More Jabs at Short Sellers
Retail investors are taking short sellers to the cleaners at least for now, and Elon Musk is loving it.The chief...
