In the latest irony of the Amazon age, the Seattle company is taking over the top six floors of the Macy’s building in downtown, giving the online retailer a good chunk of space formerly occupied by a brick-and-mortar icon.
Online home-furnishings giant Wayfair will have sales of about $4 billion this year, nearly double what it sold two years ago. But with its free delivery feature, Wayfair’s profit margins are considerably less than those of its competitors.
Qantas took delivery of its first Boeing 787 Dreamliner at Everett’s Paine Field. It will use the planes to fly the first nonstop routes from Australia to Europe.
The Fall Creators Update, the Windows 10 update that Microsoft will begin rolling out this week, adds support for newer, sometimes cheaper, virtual-reality headsets hitting the market.
CEO Satya Nadella brought home a little more than $20 million in the 2017 fiscal year that ended June 30, up 13.1 percent from last year. President Brad Smith’s compensation grew 19.9 percent.
The 76 businesses and organizations — including American Airlines, Apple, eBay, Facebook, Google, Starbucks and Microsoft — filed a brief Wednesday encouraging the high court to take up the issue of whether a federal law covers discrimination against someone because of their sexual orientation.
BEIJING (AP) — Asian stocks were little-changed Tuesday after Wall Street's major indexes rose to new highs as China prepared to open a key political meeting. KEEPING SCORE: The Shanghai Composite Index was off 0.1 percent at 3,374.66 while Tokyo's Nikkei 225 was unchanged at 21,260.89. Hong Kong's Hang Seng held steady at 28,707.80 and...
WAVERLY, Iowa (AP) — Officials say nearly 60 jobs will be lost in a cutback at a Nestle plant in northeast Iowa. The company plans to phase out 49 hourly jobs and seven salaried positions at its Waverly plant by the end of next year. The staff of nearly 255 workers makes various products, including...
