Facebook joined YouTube, Twitter and payment service Venmo on Wednesday in demanding that a facial recognition company stop harvesting user images to identify the people in them, which the startup does as part of its work with police.

Federal regulators on Thursday cleared the way for a Mountain View startup to use self-driving robot vehicles on the nation’s roads for its grocery delivery service, the company announced in its blog.

A federal jury has decided that Apple Inc. and Broadcom Inc. must pay $1.1 billion to the California Institute of Technology for infringing on patents.

Dozens of Lyft employees will lose their jobs in what the San Francisco-based ride-hailing company is calling a corporate restructuring, according to a report in the New York Times.

Netflix is holding its ground in the video streaming wars.

California is considering raising taxes on some of the country’s largest companies, but the size of the tax increase would depend on how much its highest-paid executive makes compared to its employees.

California lawmakers are considering upending the state’s struggling bottle and can recycling program by requiring beverage distributors to create a new system to take back their own containers, similar to one that has been successful in neighboring Oregon.

It has been a bad week for robots in the San Francisco Bay Area. A Silicon Valley company that used robots to make its pizzas closed this week, and three coffee shops in downtown San Francisco that used robots as baristas also shuttered. Zume Pizza said it is cutting 172 jobs in Mountain View and eliminating another 80 jobs at…

Uber sent an email to riders Thursday detailing some changes the company says are intended to keep as many drivers on the road as possible. But it means users won’t always know what their ride will cost until it’s over.

Tesla’s global deliveries rose more than 50% last year, meaning the company surpassed the low end of its sales goals for 2019.

Whether its too expensive to operate or not enough family interest, the Bay Area is seeing several go-to restaurants closing. On Tuesday, two more popular restaurants with a combined 130 years in business shut their doors for good.

Ride-share company Uber and on-demand meal delivery service Postmates sued Monday to block a broad new California law aimed at giving wage and benefit protections to people who work as independent contractors.

Global shares fell sharply once again Wednesday as fears over the speed of the new coronavirus around the world accentuated

Shares are mixed in Asia after Wall Street suffered its worst session in two years, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunging more than 1,000 points on worries over the impact of the viral outbreak from China.

Shares skidded, oil prices sank and the price of gold surged on Monday as the number of people infected or killed by the viral outbreak that began in China surged, heaping more uncertainty on the economic outlook.

U.S. regulators have approved a new type of cholesterol-lowering drug aimed at millions of people who don’t get enough help from widely used statin pills like Lipitor and Crestor

Millions of households that hustled to get their tax returns to the IRS early could be waiting until March for their refunds. If you’re claiming the additional child tax credit or the earned income tax credit, the IRS cannot issue your refund before mid-February.

Gap is the latest retailer to dip its toes into the secondhand apparel market, following the lead of Macy’s, Nordstrom and others, in a bid to stay relevant in an industry shaken by changing consumer tastes.

Kia is joining its affiliate Hyundai in recalling thousands of vehicles in the U.S. because water can get into a brake computer, cause an electrical short and possibly a fire.

Refund checks totaling more than $34 million will be sent to consumers who allegedly were tricked by Office Depot, Inc. and a software provider into buying computer repair products and services, the Federal Trade Commission announced.

Victoria’s Secret, which once defined sexy with its leggy supermodels in their lacy bras and oversized angel wings, has a new owner

When you’re in the market for a home, saving up for a hefty down payment typically won’t be enough to secure a mortgage. Lenders also expect borrowers to have a decent credit score — 90% of home buyers had a score of at least 650 in the first quarter of 2019 — and an income high enough that they are confident...

Tax season is in full swing — and that means it’s hunting time for scam artists hoping to rip off taxpayers.

Europe’s biggest bank has reported that its net profit fell 53% in 2019 to $6 billion.

Apple Inc. is warning investors that it won’t meet its second-quarter financial guidance because the viral outbreak in China has cut production of iPhones.

In a somewhat expected move, Fort Worth-based Pier 1 announced Monday that it began Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings and is pursuing a sale of the company.

General Motors says it’s pulling out of Australia, New Zealand and Thailand as part of a strategy to exit markets that don’t produce adequate returns on investments, dismaying officials concerned over job losses

President Donald Trump’s $1.5 billion proposal to prop up the country’s nuclear fuel industry has emboldened at least one company to take steps toward boosting operations at dormant uranium mines around the West, including outside Grand Canyon National Park

United Airlines won’t use the Boeing 737 Max at all this summer, while American Airlines is still holding out hope for a late August return

A federal court has ordered the Pentagon to temporarily halt work with Microsoft on a $10 billion military cloud contract that Amazon was initially favored to win

Medtronic has recalled some of its insulin pumps after one death and more than 2,000 injuries were reported, according to a Wednesday announcement from the Food and Drug Administration. Certain Medtronic MiniMed 600 Series pumps were administering incorrect insulin doses to diabetes patients.

Nissan, reeling from a scandal over its former superstar executive Carlos Ghosn, says it sank into red ink for the latest quarter as its vehicle sales fell around the world.

Barclays chief executive Jes Staley has said he deeply regrets his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

Organizers of the world’s biggest mobile technology fair are pulling the plug over worries about the viral outbreak from China.

President Donald Trump says he’s working on a trade deal with Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno, who on Wednesday became the South American nation’s first chief of state in 17 years to meet with an American president in Washington.

The U.S. men’s national team urged the U.S. Soccer Federation to sharply increase pay of the American women and accused the governing body of making low-ball offers in negotiations with the men

An undercover video recorded by animal welfare activists shows vendors at a recent trophy-hunting convention promoting trips to shoot captive-bred lions in Africa, despite past public assurances by the event’s organizers that so-called canned hunts wouldn’t be sold

Having a new baby can not only change your sleep patterns, it can also change how you file your taxes.

Samsung on Tuesday unveiled a new foldable phone, the Galaxy Z Flip

China is denying involvement in any hacking activities after the United States indicted four members of the Chinese military for allegedly breaking into the computer networks of the Equifax credit reporting agency and stealing the personal information of tens of millions of people

As mall-based retailers struggle to compete with the onslaught from online shopping, the companies that own and manage the malls are finding their own business models severely challenged.

More than a month after the outbreak of China’s deadly virus, the economic damage is being felt by more businesses and is threatening the outlook for the global economy

The CEO of Swiss bank Credit Suisse is resigning after nearly five years on the job, saying that a spying scandal caused “anxiety and hurt” and tarnished the firm’s reputation

Tax season has just started, but you can still find opportunities to cut your 2019 taxes if you know where to look. The IRS started accepting tax returns on Jan.27, kicking off the long march to April 15 — the deadline for taxpayers to pay last year’s liabilities.

This should have been a good year for global tourism, with trade tensions gradually easing, certain economies growing and banner events like the Summer Olympics taking place in Tokyo.

China has cut tariffs on $75 billion of U.S. imports including soybeans, pork and auto parts in a trade truce with Washington as Beijing struggles with a costly virus outbreak.

Beauty retailer Sephora has big growth plans, at a time when many businesses are shutting their doors for good.

The Shanghai Composite index has tumbled nearly 8% as Chinese regulators move to stabilize markets jolted by a virus that has spread to more than 20 countries, slamming regional tourism and threatening global growth.

Stocks fell sharply on Wall Street as investors feared that a virus outbreak that originated in China will dent the global economy

The Hummer is making a comeback, only this time it won’t guzzle gas or spew greenhouse gases

Home buying is expected to keep picking up in 2020, with mortgage rates around a full percentage point lower than they were this time last year. Prices are getting a boost in many markets, too, with housing inventory low across the country. To get a sense of how much you can expect to pay if you are in the market for...

Asian shares are sliding on deepening worries over the expanding outbreak of a new virus in China

State and federal authorities are suing imprisoned drug entrepreneur Martin Shkreli over tactics that shielded a profitable drug from competition after a price hike made the so-called “Pharma Bro” infamous

Kobe Bryant was best known for bringing his competitive spirit to the basketball court — the “mamba mentality” as it was called — but in recent years, he also applied it to the business world, according to NBC News.

Planters confirmed that Mr. Peanut died during a pre-Super Bowl ad and nut lovers everywhere Wednesday are mourning his death, NBC News reports.

It is often said that it’s lonely at the top, but loneliness on the job is a growing issue well beyond the corner office.

American workers are feeling more isolated, and younger workers are experiencing loneliness more so than their older co-workers, according to a new Cigna study.

Federal regulators have slapped former Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf with a $17.5 million fine for his role in the bank’s sales practices scandal

The Trump administration has approved a right-of-way allowing the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline to be built across U.S. land

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that the U.S. economy’s GDP growth would have been closer to 4% if it weren’t for the lingering effect of Federal Reserve rate hikes.