Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is planning to lay off 8,000 employees, or roughly 10% of its workforce, in May, as it seeks to cut costs to better prepare to do more with artificial intelligence.

Meta told its employees about the layoffs in a Thursday memo that said the company will also close 6,000 open roles. Bloomberg ...Read more

As work from home and work in the office continue to bleed into each other, legal questions are being raised over when, exactly, you’re working for your employer.

The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday that a Dakota County employee who was injured while loading her car with work equipment after being told to return to the ...Read more

Microsoft is offering voluntary retirements to thousands of its employees in the United States — for the first time in the tech giant’s 51 years.

The retirement program, which doesn’t have much precedent in the tech industry, is Microsoft’s latest effort to manage its head count.

The Redmond-based software maker, like other tech ...Read more

Bellevue, Washington-based T-Mobile could become part of the world’s biggest phone company.

The company is in talks with its German majority-owner Deutsche Telekom AG to combine under one holding company, according to a Bloomberg report.

Deutsche Telekom already owns a 53% stake in T-Mobile. The combined entity would be jointly owned by ...Read more

After years of dampened 737 Max product, Boeing is hoping to bring its troubled workhorse back to pre-crisis production levels.

Boeing plans to increase monthly production of its 737 Max this summer – marking its second increase since the midair panel blowout upended its manufacturing system more than two years ago and bringing the planemaker...Read more

Joe Petrocco, a fourth-generation vegetable farmer in Colorado, is facing one of the toughest seasons he can remember, with rising costs for fertilizer and fuel as well as a looming water shortage after a dry winter.

But one part of his business is providing some optimism: As farms like his across the U.S. get going on the planting and ...Read more

Paramount Skydance’s proposed takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery cleared a major hurdle Thursday as Warner stockholders overwhelmingly embraced the $111 billion deal.

Approval was expected. Paramount Chairman David Ellison’ s proposal would pay Warner investors $31 a share — four times the price of the company’s stock a year ago. Warner...Read more

Phillips 66 and Kinder Morgan have announced plans to move forward with a pipeline project that would provide Southern California a much-needed connection to gasoline and other refined products via fuel terminals in other parts of the country.

In a joint statement, the two companies said there’s been more than sufficient interest from ...Read more

Seattle-based real estate giant Redfin failed to disclose pay in its job openings, a new lawsuit claims.

Skagit County resident Shannon Spencer alleges in the lawsuit filed Tuesday in King County Superior Court that Redfin’s job advertisements did not include wage scales or salary ranges, as required by Washington law.

In 2023, Washington ...Read more

Tracy Cambron couldn't afford to buy a house in Seattle when she moved here a decade ago. Still, she wanted to give her two kids a childhood like hers — one where they could play in a yard, trick-or-treat at neighbors’ houses and pass a football in the street.

She rented single-family homes in Seattle neighborhoods to give them that ...Read more

Sky-high office vacancy rates still haunt the downtowns of San Jose, Oakland and San Francisco, despite bursts of tech lease deals in Silicon Valley that have largely bypassed the urban cores of the Bay Area’s three largest cities.

The vacancy levels for office space remain stuck above 30% in San Jose’s, Oakland’s and San Francisco’s ...Read more

How renters pay for utilities in Seattle has become a hot topic over the last year.

A system that divides a building’s total utility bills between units instead of a flat rate has raised fairness and transparency concerns among tenants. Some claim the system allows landlords to rake in more money while circumventing recently imposed rent ...Read more

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