Tag: Corporate news
Tech firm to replace Chevrolet as Man United jersey sponsor
MANCHESTER, England — Manchester United's jerseys will be sponsored by a technology company providing remote-access computer software after the Premier League club announced Friday...
EXPLAINER: Will you need a ‘vaccine passport’ to travel?
<p>Airlines and others in the travel industry are throwing their support behind so-called vaccine passports to boost pandemic-depressed travel, and authorities in <a href="https://apnews.com/article/eu-virus-pass-plan-allow-free-travel-summer-12408e4b968e03a289fe6aceac8f981f">Europe...
L.L. Bean sees sales boom amid pandemic’s push to outdoors
FREEPORT, Maine — With Americans hunkering down and hankering to get outdoors during the pandemic, L.L. Bean recorded its best annual sales growth in...
Report: DOJ investigating Visa over debit card business
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Visa is under investigation by the Department of Justice's antitrust division over whether the company pushes merchants into more expensive forms...
JetBlue considers whether to leave NYC and move to Florida
<p>NEW YORK — JetBlue Airways is considering whether to stay in New York, where it was founded two decades ago, or move its headquarters...
US sends investigators to probe another Michigan Tesla crash
LANSING, Mich. — For the second time this week, the U.S. government’s road safety agency is sending a team to investigate a Tesla crash...
Jury convicts former NW Indiana mayor of bribery in retrial
HAMMOND, Ind. — A federal jury convicted a former northwestern Indiana mayor on a bribery charge Friday in his retrial on allegations he solicited...
Fujifilm biotech firm to build massive plant in central NC
<p>HOLLY SPRINGS, N.C. — A subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate Fujifilm Holdings Corp. said Thursday that it will open a massive biopharmaceutical manufacturing plant in...
Port operator DP World sees 2020 profits drop 29% amid virus
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Dubai-based port operator DP World announced Thursday its profits slid 29% in 2020 from the previous year to $846...
Lawyer: Canada border questions violated Huawei CFO’s rights
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Lawyers for a senior executive for Chinese communications giant Huawei Technologies argued at an extradition hearing Friday that her detention...