Airbnb unveiled a new set of services for guests on Wednesday, adding car rentals, airport pickup and grocery delivery to its online marketplace that connects travelers with local hosts.

Customers can now get groceries delivered to their Airbnb through a partnership with Instacart and have a driver meet them at the airport with Airbnb's Welcome...Read more

Live Nation Entertainment Inc. should be required to divest its Ticketmaster unit to fix its illegal monopolization of the live music industry, state attorneys general told a court Thursday.

The request for a court-ordered breakup puts U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian in Manhattan center stage in deciding the fate of the U.S.’s largest ...Read more

The giant roadside thermometer between Las Vegas and Los Angeles — a towering sight for legions of highway drivers — is for sale.

A spread of real estate in Baker, California, along Interstate 15 roughly 90 miles southwest of the Las Vegas Strip, recently went on the market for $1.85 million, listing sites show.

The 4.3-acre tract includes...Read more

SAN JOSE — Waymo is rolling its driverless car service deeper into the South Bay.

On Wednesday, the Mountain View-based company, which was already serving central San Jose, started picking up riders in the San Jose neighborhoods of Willow Glen and Vista Park, as well as the West Valley cities of Campbell and Cupertino.

The expansion adds ...Read more

Intuit Inc. suffered its worst stock decline in more than two decades after announcing plans to cut about 17% of its staff and reporting slower TurboTax sales than anticipated.

The job reductions, which will affect about 3,000 workers, will trim costs while the financial software company invests in artificial intelligence products. They’re ...Read more

Buying a condo in some parts of the U.S. has become harder due to recent changes in Fannie Mae’s condo policies, according to local real estate experts.

The government-sponsored mortgage enterprise recently increased the required due diligence for condo loans, and that could make some purchases harder to close in the months ahead, Las Vegas-...Read more

Agriculture leaders said the trade deals struck on President Donald Trump’s trip to China are encouraging.

But whether the export framework that emerged after Trump’s meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping will result in real deals and lift farmers’ profits remains uncertain.

After the high-profile trip, which included several chief ...Read more

Many Seattle area residents feel like the bar to owning a home just keeps getting higher, and they're not imagining things.

The cost of a monthly mortgage payment is now well beyond double the cost of median rent here — among the largest gaps in the country.

While the typical renter who recently moved is spending an already eye-watering $2,...Read more

For Vince Gervasi, chief executive of Triscenic Production Services, it was yet another body blow.

His company, a leading supplier of set and scenery storage and transportation for the film industry, was poised for a turnaround after nearly three years of losing money.

Then, last week, he said a line producer on “Shark Tank,” one of his ...Read more

Stellantis NV CEO Antonio Filosa on Thursday morning was unveiling a new five-year, nearly $70 billion business turnaround plan for the struggling transatlantic automaker that will channel a bulk of its brand and product resources to four of the company's 14 nameplates: Jeep, Ram, Peugeot and Fiat.

Filosa and other executives were detailing the...Read more

Najimah Roberson, a lifelong renter, spent the past two years searching around Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, for a home she could afford — getting outbid nearly 30 times along the way.

The ordeal had the 42-year-old daycare business owner “in tears for weeks” before she finally found a five-bedroom fixer-upper for $340,000. It has an ...Read more

In Granbury, Texas, city council meetings begin with a prayer.

But at a session back in January, one local invoked the Almighty in a way that would have been unimaginable just a decade ago.

“I want to pray in Jesus’ name that the land annexed will not become a data center,” said Matt Long, a member of the development commission in ...Read more

Schlitz beer will be brewed for the last time on Saturday.

Wisconsin Brewing Co. brewmaster Kirby Nelson told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that he’ll make an 80-barrel batch of Schlitz that adheres to the specifications set by the company in its 1948 heyday to retire the beer with “dignity and respect.”

Pre-orders begin Saturday for ...Read more

Completion of a planned $3.5 billion General Motors Co. battery plant in Indiana has been paused as the Detroit automaker and partner Samsung SDI adjust to lower-than-expected demand for electric vehicles.

GM aims to finish construction of the exterior of the New Carlisle, Indiana, plant as soon as possible. After that, it's unclear what will ...Read more

Aldermen voted to freeze Chicago’s “One Fair Wage” ordinance Wednesday, halting required raises for tipped workers like waiters who now get paid below the city minimum.

The City Council’s move stops the increases for at least two years. The veto-proof majority — just one alderman voted against the change — hardly marks an end to the...Read more

Elon Musk wants to take investors on a ride to the moon — and beyond.

His pioneering rocket company SpaceX filed Wednesday for what's expected to be the largest initial public offering in history, potentially raising at least $75 billion and valuing the company at well over $1 trillion.

The registration statement with the Securities and ...Read more

The top U.S. securities regulator is delaying the launch of a wave of novel exchange-traded funds that would let investors wager on events such as elections and economic data as the agency weighs how far the $15 trillion ETF wrapper can stretch.

Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins said Wednesday that he has instructed staff ...Read more

A day after declaring it would cost $8 billion to rebuild Penn Station — and a day before the Amtrak Board was scheduled to meet — Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Wednesday that a coalition of Halmar, the U.S. arm of Italian company ASTM Group, and the construction firm Skanska would be in charge of the massive project.

The ...Read more

A Californian is suing Fashion Nova after receiving multiple early-morning texts from the retailer.

The Beverly Hills-based retailer violated federal law that bars companies from sending telephone solicitations before 8 a.m. or after 9 p.m. local time, the lawsuit filed in Northern California last month claims.

Fashion Nova's "unlawful conduct...Read more