KFC has issued a high-profile, humorous apology for its chicken shortages in the UK. The fast-food chain used a full-page ad in British newspapers to apologize for shutting down hundreds of ...

General Electric has been a piston of the American economic engine for 125 years. It pioneered the light bulb and the jet engine. It survived the Great Depression, the dot-com crash and the 2008 ...

Over the past several days, two major American companies found themselves facing public relations disasters. A fatal engine failure aboard a Southwest (LUV) flight left the airline scrambling to ...

Editor's Note: Today, a Canadian payment processor named PacNet Services, Ltd. became one of the many targets of an unprecedented crackdown on global mail fraud, which was announced today by ...

Just this June, Fortune Magazine announced a new milestone in its list of Fortune 500 female CEOs. The number of women CEOs listed had reached an all–time high: 32 in a single year. The ...

The ongoing protests and violence that have occurred over the past several days in Milwaukee are about more than the police killing of Sylville Smith. They are about years of inequity, high ...

Longstanding doubts about the accuracy of China's economic data just got a big piece of supporting evidence: The governor of an entire province has admitted that local officials cooked the books ...

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says he didn't mean to promote the Lego Batman movie. On Friday, Mnuchin, who was a former Hollywood producer, tried to clarify remarks he made last week in an ...

A tiny porpoise finds itself in a battle for survival against the forces of fish mafias, drug cartels, and a Chinese black market. When US border agents raided the home of Song Shen Zhen, they ...

See how revenues and profits at America's 25 largest companies have risen and fallen over the past decade.

The billionaire bromance between Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer fell apart, like many of today's relationships, because one of them spent too much time on smartphones. Ballmer, the former Microsoft ...

Last week, Facebook users around the world were greeted with a mysterious change. There, atop the usual news feed, was a row of circles. Inside each circle, a photo of one of their friends.