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In October 2021, when Facebook was still riding high, Mark Zuckerberg changed the company’s name to Meta, signaling his new focus on “the metaverse” — a nascent blend of virtual reality and...

The real estate brokerage firm Redfin said on Wednesday that it was laying off 13 percent of its work force, the company’s latest move to cut costs amid a slowing housing market.Glenn...

A relatively subdued election night on Tuesday yielded relatively subdued ratings: The overall television audience was 25.4 million viewers, the smallest total for a midterm year since 2014, according to Nielsen.The viewership...

“When the ability to govern decreases, even in the absence of any particular policy from the top, the ineptitude, brutality, and ignorance of lower-level officials will brew disasters for the common people...

The Brooklyn Nets and the Anti-Defamation League sent a letter to Amazon asking the company to address the “deeply and unequivocally antisemitic” documentary and related book at the heart of the Brooklyn...

Nike is facing plenty of challenges this year.A glut of sneakers and sports clothing has built up in recent months, leading to concerns that Nike will have to heavily mark down prices...

What’s Up? (Oct. 30-Nov. 5)A Jumbo Rate IncreaseWhen the Federal Reserve raised interest rates another three-quarters of a point on Wednesday, the fourth-consecutive increase of that size, the central bank sent mixed...

Twitter announced on Saturday that it would begin charging customers $7.99 a month to receive a verification check mark on their profiles, one of a raft of product changes that the company...

Job growth remained stubbornly robust in October despite higher interest rates, defying policymakers’ efforts to dampen the labor market and curb the fastest inflation in generations.Employers added 261,000 jobs last month on...

“There is nothing visionary or innovative about summarily firing” workers by email, he said, especially people who have “specialized expertise and deep institutional knowledge” and before Mr. Musk “even seems to have...