Category: Business

The impact of Korean pop band BTS on the global music scene is hard to overstate. Time magazine recently named BTS Entertainer of the Year in its annual tradition of highlighting exceptionally influential figures. Time writer Raisa Bruner called them an “outsize success” for what the boy band has been able to accomplish in 2020: […]

Shares of Tesla (TSLA) are up nearly 700% so far this year, more than double 2020’s current top performer on the index. The stock has surged almost 65% since the mid-November announcement of its S&P 500 inclusion. The second best performing stock in the S&P 500 this year is also a recent addition. E-commerce firm […]

That means a lot of people will be shopping in person this weekend, and the inevitable rush to brick-and-mortar stores is likely to be an even bigger headache for retailers this year as they try to maintain social distancing requirements. The National Retail Federation, which tracks industry sales trends, estimates more than 150 million Americans […]

So much of the technology we use in our daily lives is meant for life on the go—whether we’re commuting to work, connecting with friends while out and about, or taking a trip. But for most of us at CNN Business, 2020 consisted of doing little and going hardly anywhere as we adapted to life […]

Suspected Russian hackers who broke into U.S. government agencies also spied on less high-profile organizations, including groups in Britain, a U.S. internet provider and a county government in Arizona, according to web records and a security source. More details were revealed on Friday of the cyber espionage campaign that has computer network security teams worldwide […]

SACO, Maine — The coronavirus pandemic has been a struggle for much of American seafood, but at least one sector of the industry has found a way to grow during the crisis — the seaweed business. Seaweed harvesting and farming, based largely along the rocky and chilly coast of Maine, has grown for several years […]

Perhaps the most influential executive at Google is a man who can’t write a line of code. That is Kent Walker, the company’s chief legal officer and head of global affairs, whose role puts him at the center of the search giant’s antitrust challenges. It also gives him the power to lead the defense that […]