Just how big a deal is artificial intelligence? "AI is probably the most important thing humanity has ever worked on. I think of it as something more profound than electricity or fire." That's a ...

General Electric has been a piston of the American economic engine for 125 years. It pioneered the light bulb and the jet engine. It survived the Great Depression, the dot-com crash and the 2008 ...

KFC has issued a high-profile, humorous apology for its chicken shortages in the UK. The fast-food chain used a full-page ad in British newspapers to apologize for shutting down hundreds of ...

Editor's Note: Today, a Canadian payment processor named PacNet Services, Ltd. became one of the many targets of an unprecedented crackdown on global mail fraud, which was announced today by ...

A tiny porpoise finds itself in a battle for survival against the forces of fish mafias, drug cartels, and a Chinese black market. When US border agents raided the home of Song Shen Zhen, they ...

It was the year nothing seemed safe. Bombshell hacks were revealed one after another in 2017, from an Equifax breach that compromised almost half the country to global ransom campaigns that cost ...

Over the past several days, two major American companies found themselves facing public relations disasters. A fatal engine failure aboard a Southwest (LUV) flight left the airline scrambling to ...

Markets around the globe were shaken. Companies decried the plan. Economists condemned it. Foreign powers threatened to retaliate. President Donald Trump's plan to impose a 25% tariff on imported ...

Just this June, Fortune Magazine announced a new milestone in its list of Fortune 500 female CEOs. The number of women CEOs listed had reached an all–time high: 32 in a single year. The ...

Walmart is making its opioid policy more strict, limiting the duration of such prescriptions and requiring that they be filled electronically. The company announced on Monday that within 60 days ...

Aurora, a startup developing software for self-driving cars, had barely launched when it found its place among the biggest names in the car industry. The 17-month-old Silicon Valley-based startup ...

The head of the Japanese advertising giant Dentsu has resigned after the suicide of a junior employee was linked to a company culture that required staffers to work huge amounts of overtime.