Business Highlights
WASHINGTON (AP) — Air travelers across the country have endured lengthy security lines, some snaking up and down escalators, or through food courts and into terminal lobbies.
[...] facing a potential backlash, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson asked fliers "to be patient" as the government takes steps to get them onto planes more quickly.
SHANGHAI (AP) — An anti-counterfeiting group said Friday it was suspending Alibaba's membership following an uproar by some companies that view the Chinese e-commerce giant as the world's largest marketplace for fakes.
Apple will become a strategic investor alongside Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group and Tencent Holdings Ltd., an online games and entertainment service, Didi Chuxing announced Friday.
Shoppers who once crowded malls are now ordering online, siphoning sales from physical stores, which face growing pressure to reinvent their businesses.
The company is waking up to the overall seismic shift in consumer spending that is started to wreak havoc on mall-based retailers.
DETROIT (AP) — General Motors Co. is telling dealers not to sell about 60,000 SUVs in the U.S. because the gas mileage listed on the window stickers was inadvertently overstated.
The FDA said Thursday that the potential side effects of fluoroquinolone anti-bacterial drugs often outweigh their benefits when it comes to treating people with bronchitis or basic sinus or urinary tract infections.
Potential serious and disabling side effects related to the drugs can include tendon, muscle and joint pain, a "pins and needles" tingling sensation, confusion and hallucinations.
MOSCOW (AP) — Once a rather stolid operation focused on business news, the RBC group in recent years had become a standout among Russia's constricting field of independent news media.
[...] that could indicate that management wanted to rein in the reporting, which has included accounts of corruption, the lucrative a