Corporate

News Hour: Music streaming service Spotify said on Thursday it has renewed a nine-year-old licensing deal with independent digital agency Merlin that has proven essential to its enduring appeal to dedicated music fans even as it...

News Hour: Motorcycle maker Harley-Davidson Inc said on Thursday it will lay off 118 workers at its York, Pennsylvania, plant and shift employment to Kansas City, Missouri. The company said it told employees in November 2015...

News Hour: Ford Motor Co is taking a cautious approach to producing electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles for the Chinese market, citing uncertainty about consumer interest and government policy, despite a rush by carmakers to jump...

News Hour: China’s auto industry is charging ahead with aggressive plans to electrify cars even as policymakers scale back subsidies aimed at building sales from relatively low levels and consider tapping the brakes on sales quotas...

News Hour: The state-backed fund Innovation Network Corp of Japan is looking at the auction of Toshiba Corp’s chip unit but did not participate in the first-round bidding, INCJ Chairman Toshiyuki Shiga said on Tuesday. Sources...

News Hour: Shares of Snap fell 1.5 percent on Monday as the Snapchat owner faced criticism for comments allegedly made by its CEO about not prioritizing growth in India and Spain because they were “poor” countries....

News Hour: Netflix Inc made a bullish forecast for subscriber additions by mid-year, a positive sign for its push to expand around the world that sent its shares toward an all-time high. The streaming video company...

News Hour: EagleClaw Midstream Ventures LLC, the largest privately held operator of pipelines and processing facilities in West Texas’ Delaware Basin, said it agreed to be bought by funds managed by Blackstone Group LP for about...

News Hour: Russian anti-monopoly watchdog FAS and Alphabet Inc’s Google have reached an out-of-court settlement in a case over the Android operating system, FAS said on Monday. The deal was approved by a Russian court earlier...

News Hour: U.S. video streaming service provider Netflix is in talks with Indonesia’s top telecom firm PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk (Telkom) to roll out its service in the country, a spokesman for the Indonesian company said....