Tesla Inc. anticipates billions of dollars in additional spending this year to support Elon Musk’s ambitions to transform the electric-vehicle pioneer into an AI and robotics company.

Capital expenditures this year will exceed $25 billion, the company revealed Wednesday, roughly three times last year’s outlay. The planned investment is up ...Read more

Air miles are becoming a precious commodity as uncertainty grows about the outlook for ticket prices and the availability of flights.

Frequent flyers are increasingly using their miles to hedge against global travel chaos by making overlapping bookings across different routes per trip, according to travel experts. Because award tickets ...Read more

It’s not every U.S. CEO who gets complimented by the U.S. president on their way out of their company — or gets insulted in vulgar terms at the same time.

But Tim Cook now has that double-edged distinction, after President Donald Trump this week declared he was a fan of the outgoing Apple CEO, but also recalled what he described with a ...Read more

American Airlines Group Inc. and Alaska Air Group Inc. are pursuing potential revenue-sharing agreements and other strategic partnerships, people familiar with the matter said, in a push for scale as the U.S. carriers grapple with higher costs and fierce competition.

The idea of a merger was raised as part of the talks around a stronger ...Read more

A Boisean’s simple act-of-kindness-gone-viral is now the inspiration for a coupon code coming to Domino’s nationwide.

With a new code rolling out April 30, Domino’s and The Coca-Cola Company are teaming up to honor Dan Simpson, a 68-year-old pizza delivery driver, for going the extra mile on one recent Friday night delivery in Boise.

But...Read more

For Corie Barry, any decision on a CEO transition comes down to a simple test: timing.

“Philosophically, I think any CEO transition begins with two things,” Barry said in an interview with the Star Tribune. “Hopefully, it’s the right time for the person. More importantly, it needs to be the right time for the company.”

After 27 years...Read more

Operation Metro Surge led to an estimated $600 million loss in revenue to businesses in St. Paul and Minneapolis, according to a new filing in a lawsuit against the federal government.

The lawsuit says St. Paul and Minneapolis residents also missed out on an estimated $240 million in wages.

Filed by the state of Minnesota and both Twin Cities ...Read more

A former female staffer who worked for Beast Industries, the media venture behind the popular YouTube channel MrBeast, is suing the company, alleging she was sexually harassed and fired shortly after she returned from maternity leave.

The employee, Lorrayne Mavromatis, a Brazilian-born social media professional, alleges in a lawsuit she was ...Read more

Boeing lost $7 million in the first three months of the year, failing to turn a profit but marking a drastic turnaround from the same time period a year ago, when it lost $31 million.

The company again spent more money than it brought in during the first quarter, burning through $1.5 billion in cash from January through the end of March. But ...Read more

DETROIT — Detroit ToolBank opened its doors on Tuesday evening, offering the opportunity for nonprofits, churches, student organizations and other volunteer groups to rent shovels, rakes, and other equipment for community development projects in the state.

Dearborn's Ford Motor Co. through Ford Philanthropy and Carhartt Inc. are behind ...Read more

As the magnitude of Starbucks’ ambitions in Nashville comes into focus, reaction in the global coffee giant's home base of Seattle is also sharpening.

On Tuesday, Starbucks said that its new Nashville office will grow to up to 2,000 workers over the next five years. With that headcount, Nashville's workforce would be more than half as big as ...Read more

Demand for weight loss drugs is ballooning across the U.S. — and Amazon wants in.

The Seattle-based tech giant launched its own GLP-1 program Tuesday aimed at streamlining access to weight loss drugs, with primary care, upfront pricing and doorstep delivery.

The new program integrates Amazon One Medical, a primary care service that combines ...Read more

Several private equity firms and Hollywood power players, including United Talent Agency and longtime agent Patrick Whitesell, have expressed interest in buying parts of Casey Wasserman's music and sports management firm after it abruptly went up for sale.

Wasserman became ensnared in controversy earlier this year after his salacious decades-...Read more

Streaming entertainment giant Netflix is in negotiations to buy the historic Radford Studio Center lot in Studio City.

Netflix plans to purchase the Los Angeles studio that has been home to generations of landmark television shows, including "Gunsmoke" and "Seinfeld," according to two people with knowledge of the pending deal who were not ...Read more

Strong financial results show UnitedHealth Group is making headway on turnaround plans, alongside sweeping leadership changes under CEO Stephen Hemsley.

The Eden Prairie-based health care giant raised its profit outlook and reported quarterly revenue and earnings that beat Wall Street expectations on Tuesday, April 21.

The company also pointed...Read more

Starbucks is cutting staff in its technology organization, according to an internal communication sent to employees Tuesday.

Starbucks declined to share the exact number of layoffs or confirm whether they were Seattle-based roles.

The cuts, which had been rumored internally for several days, according to several employees, were part of the ...Read more

SpaceX and the California Coastal Commission have settled a lawsuit filed by Elon Musk's rocket company over the agency's attempt to regulate its flights from Vandenberg Space Force Base.

The settlement was reached last week by the two sides, but the details won't be made public until it is approved by Los Angeles U.S. District Court Judge ...Read more

Four years ago, Mark Zuckerberg, feeling like the admiral of the good ship Meta Platforms Inc., sent a memo to employees encouraging them to refer to themselves by the nautical term “Metamates,” apparently to foster a sense of camaraderie and shared mission or something. Now he plans to spy on his own Metamates to help train the robots that ...Read more

A gig drivers organization filed a lawsuit against Uber, alleging the company violated their rights by not providing a sufficient appeals process for deactivated accounts.

The lawsuit was announced Monday during a news conference by Rideshare Drivers United, an independent organization that represents more than 20,000 app-based drivers in ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he would like to see a buyer emerge for Spirit Aviation Holdings Inc. and was open to the government coming to the aid of the airline, while opposing a merger between American Airlines Group Inc. and United Airlines Holdings Inc.

“Spirit’s in trouble, and I’d love somebody to buy Spirit,” Trump said Tuesday ...Read more