McDonald's Upgrades Quarter Pounder, Using Fresh Beef

McDonald's will switch to fresh beef from frozen in its Quarter Pounder burgers at the majority of its restaurants nationwide by mid-2018 in one of the biggest moves the company has made to turn around its struggling U.S. business.

 
Ford Hires BlackBerry Employees to Work on Connected Cars

Ford Motor is hiring 400 engineers from BlackBerry's mobility-solutions unit to help develop internet-connected vehicles, giving a boost to the auto maker's software development efforts, according to people briefed on the matter.

 
GE Chief Says 'Climate Change Is Real' in Rebuke to Trump Policy

General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt defended efforts to reduce emissions and fight climate change after President Donald Trump reversed rules pushing U.S. utilities to use cleaner-burning fuels.

 
H&M Falters as Zara Owner Inditex Speeds Ahead

Sweden's Hennes & Mauritz reported a 3% fall in first-quarter net profit from a year earlier on lower-than-expected sales growth and increased markdowns. The results come as a blow amid strong momentum at its main rival, Zara owner Inditex.

 
'You Are All Liars': Toshiba Shareholders Vent After Westinghouse Bankruptcy

Toshiba shareholders, some of them in tears, denounced management at a shareholders' meeting and asked why the Japanese conglomerate had plowed billions of dollars into a now-bankrupt U.S. nuclear business.

 
EU Mulls New Online Rules

The European Union is considering changes to online rules to help investigators better fight crime and terror, the bloc's justice chief said in an interview.

 
States' Next Target on Sales Taxes: Sellers on Amazon

After spending years fighting Amazon.com to force it to collect sales taxes, U.S. states are turning their attention to the individuals and small companies that account for a growing share of the online marketplace's sales.

 
Telecom Giants Get the OK to Mine Your Web History

Congress has voted to overturn Obama-era internet privacy rules. Now the path is clear for telecom giants like Verizon and AT&T to build detailed profiles of their customers' behavior and sell that information to marketers.

 
Departed Disney Executive Linked to Firm That Used Brand Without Approval

A Chinese executive who left Walt Disney after an internal inquiry has links to a Hong Kong company that used Disney's brand for a project in China without approval, documents show.

 
ConocoPhillips to Sell Chunk of Canadian Oil-Sands Assets

ConocoPhillips is selling a large portion of its Canadian oil-sands assets to Cenovus Energy to pay down debt and significantly increase stock buybacks, marking the latest exit from the oil sands by non-Canadian player.

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