Business Highlights
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A major phishing scheme has tricked several major companies — including messaging service Snapchat and disk-drive maker Seagate Technology — into relinquishing tax documents that exposed their workers' incomes, addresses and Social Security numbers.
The scam, which involved fake emails purportedly sent by top company officials, convinced the companies involved to send out W-2 tax forms that are ideal for identity theft.
Dubbed the "go nowhere" generation, they weren't getting driver's licenses, never mind buying cars.
NEW YORK (AP) — A group of New York City women filed a lawsuit last week arguing that it is unconstitutional for the state to levy sales tax on tampons and sanitary napkins while offering medical-product exemptions to many other items used by both genders, like lip balm and dandruff shampoo.
Horn's sudden departure comes as the company continues to grapple with the fallout from its admission last year that nearly 600,000 cars were sold in the U.S. with software that regulators say was designed to cheat on required emissions tests.
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — European Central Bank head Mario Draghi has all but promised more monetary stimulus for the 19-country eurozone economy at Thursday's meeting of the bank's governing council.
Expectations at a minimum are that the ECB's governing council will cut the deposit rate for funds from commercial banks even farther below zero, a step aimed at pushing banks to lend.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The government would standardize the way airlines disclose fees for basic services like checked bags, seat assignments and ticket changes so that passengers can more easily comparison-shop the full cost of flights under a bipartisan Senate bill introduced Wednesday.
The bill would require the Department of Transportation develop a way to display fees that's easy for consumers to understand and require that airlines and ticket agents use the