Consumers splurged this last holiday season, enticed by good deals even as they worried about growth and inflation.

Online shoppers spent a record $257.8 billion during the holiday season as they snagged major discounts on electronics, sporting goods and appliances, Adobe data show.

The San José company, which analyzes online transactions on ...Read more

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette will fold after nearly a century. The paper will cease operations entirely — both its digital and physical versions — on May 3.

The announcement comes on the heels of years of declining ad revenue and internal strife within the newsroom, including a years-long labor strike.

With the paper’s closure, there are ...Read more

Paramount's campaign to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery was dealt another blow Wednesday after Warner's board rejected the latest bid from the company.

The board cited the enormous debt load that Paramount would need to finance its proposed $108-billion takeover.

Warner's board this week unanimously voted against Paramount's most recent ...Read more

Barnes & Noble will open four new bookstores in the Chicago area by summertime, including a flagship location downtown on State Street, part of a national move to revive its brick-and-mortar retail presence.

The bookseller will open a store this summer in the former Old Navy outlet at 150 N. State St. Another Barnes & Noble store will open in ...Read more

Sometime around Christmas, Sarah Burzio noticed that the holiday sales bump for her stationery business included some mysterious new customers: a flurry of orders from anonymous email addresses associated with Amazon.com Inc.

Burzio, who doesn’t sell her products on the retail giant’s site, soon discovered that Amazon had duplicated her ...Read more

Back in the fall, Apple sent me the new iPhone 17 Pro Max and the thinner and lighter iPhone Air.

I reviewed the 17 Pro Max, and I’ve been using it daily — and it is still great — but what about the Air? Is it a phone I’d want to use every day?

The Air and 17 Pro Max are similar in a lot of ways. Where they differ in size and a few ...Read more

BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, Pennsylvania — One Trump supporter’s journey from a mall kiosk to a Bucks County strip mall is coming to an end this month.

The “Trump Store,” a Bensalem spot for merchandise and knickknacks celebrating President Donald Trump, is closing its doors after six years in business. The store’s final day is Jan. 31.

Mike ...Read more

Artificial intelligence dominated the conversation as CES 2026 opened Tuesday. Nearly every major exhibitor framed AI as a tool that can make daily routines smoother, faster and more efficient.

The emphasis was less on far-off science fiction and more on practical systems designed to improve how people live and work right now.

The four-day ...Read more

A small fleet of ships booked by Chevron Corp. is sailing to Venezuela as the company emerges as the only exporter of the country’s oil following the ouster of President Nicolas Maduro by U.S. forces.

Chevron is poised to export more Venezuelan oil this month than last, with at least 11 ships scheduled to arrive in the Venezuelan government-...Read more

The town of Telluride, Colorado, is staring down an economic crisis if the ski resort and its patrollers don’t settle their labor dispute in the coming days and reopen the mountain, local leaders said Tuesday.

Town council members assessed the impacts of the ongoing ski patroller strike and subsequent closure of Telluride Ski Resort during ...Read more

Las Vegas was shedding jobs toward the end of 2025 amid a prolonged tourism slump in America’s casino capital, a new report shows.

Employment in the Las Vegas area fell by 4,700 jobs from September to November, according to seasonally adjusted figures released Tuesday by the Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation.

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A gambling research company says prediction markets could become a $1 trillion industry nationwide when fully mature, with $435 billion of that coming from contracts on sports outcomes.

The battle between prediction markets and states that offer legal sports betting may not be resolved for months, even years.

Newport Beach, California-based ...Read more

Hybrid trucks and an expanded trim lineup contributed to Ford Motor Co.'s U.S. sales increasing 6% year-over-year in 2025, but keeping up the pace could come with challenges as fallout from an aluminum shortage continues, production of the Escape crossover has ended and analysts forecast market declines.

Ford sold 2.2 million vehicles last year...Read more

A Senate committee has postponed a hearing that was calling each of the Detroit Three automakers' CEOs for joint testimony for the first time since late 2008 amid the global financial meltdown.

The delay from Jan. 14 comes after Ford Motor Co. objected to sending its top brass to Capitol Hill in a standoff with U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, ...Read more

Growth in global sales of electric vehicles is expected to slow this year as China winds down some subsidies, Europe wavers on its phase-out of combustion engines, and U.S. producers and policymakers make a U-turn from the segment.

BloombergNEF expects drivers to buy 24.3 million passenger EVs this year, an increase of only 12% on 2025 and ...Read more

Millions of Amazon Prime customers received refunds from the company over the holidays, and there's a chance more members are still eligible.

Amazon agreed to disburse $1.5 billion to customers and pay a $1 billion civil penalty to settle a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit over its subscription service. About 35 million Prime customers who meet...Read more

Universal Music Group NV is partnering with Nvidia Corp. to boost the role of artificial intelligence in music discovery and creation, as record labels seek to capitalize on the fast-growing technology while managing the risks AI poses to their catalogs.

The collaboration between the world’s largest record label and the leading AI chipmaker ...Read more

WASHINGTON — In his first year back in the White House, President Donald Trump made good on campaign promises related to the auto industry.

He slashed emissions regulations, ended federal support for electric vehicles and rained tariffs down upon trade-reliant automakers and suppliers in a bid to reshore manufacturing capacity. The Republican...Read more

A recent lawsuit filed in San Diego Superior Court alleges that Sharp HealthCare recorded conversations between doctors and their patients without written consent, using the information to document visits with an artificial intelligence program developed by a private company in Pittsburgh.

While the lawsuit focuses on one particular medical ...Read more

ATLANTIC CITY — A decade after teetering on the edge of bankruptcy and being taken over by the State of New Jersey, Atlantic City has been given an investment-grade rating by Moody’s Ratings.

“Today is a tremendous day to start the new year,” Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small Sr. said Monday at a livestreamed news briefing. “The city of...Read more