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Fans wanting to see the hottest shows often struggle to compete with re-sellers and brokers when tickets go on sale. Some Broadway productions are turning to a new online system for ticket-buying that aims to keep more tickets in the hands of fans. Known as Verified Fan, the program from Ticketmaster requires people to register for a specific show in advance.

President Donald Trump is losing another informal adviser: billionaire investor Carl Icahn, who gave the White House guidance on its deregulation efforts.

The CEO of 21st Century Fox has denounced racism and terrorists while expressing concern over President Donald Trump's reaction to the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

The Chinese government is moving to curb domestic companies' investments abroad in property, sports, entertainment and other fields, following a series of high-profile, multibillion-dollar acquisitions by Chinese firms.

The CEO of India-based outsourcing and information technology company Infosys, Vishal Sikka, has resigned following differences with some founders of the company, including Narayana Murthy.

NEW YORK — It took bloodshed in Charlottesville to get tech companies to do what civil rights groups have been calling for for years: take a firmer stand against accounts used to promote hate and violence. In the wake of the deadly clash at a white-nationalist rally last weekend in Virginia, major companies such as Google, Facebook and PayPal are banishing a growing cadre of extremist groups and individuals for violating service terms. What took so long?

China has warned "there is no winner in a trade war" after an aide to President Donald Trump called in published comments for a tougher stance toward Beijing. A foreign ministry spokeswoman, Hua Chunying, said Thursday both sides have benefited from trade. In comments to The American Prospect posted online, Trump's chief strategist, Steve Bannon, said the United States is in an "economic war" with China. Asked about Bannon's comments, Hua said at a regular new briefing, "There is no winner in a trade war.

Japan reports it saw strong growth in both exports and imports in July reflecting a recovery in demand in China, Southeast Asia and the U. S. The data released Thursday showed exports rose more than 13 percent from a year earlier to 6.5 trillion yen ($59 billion) while imports jumped 16 percent to 6.1 trillion yen ($55 billion), helped by a surge in oil and coal shipments. The trade surplus slipped 17 percent from a year earlier to 419 billion yen ($3.8 billion). Japan's exports to the U.

Thousands upon thousands of cans are filled with beer, capped and washed, wrapped into six-packs, and boxed at dizzying speeds — 1,500 a minute, to be exact — on humming …

A federal judge in San Francisco has ordered LinkedIn to stop blocking a startup company from scraping LinkedIn personal profiles for data. U. S. District Judge Edward Chen has sided with San Francisco-based hiQ Labs, Inc., a company that analyzes workforce data scraped from public profiles. LinkedIn had told hiQ to stop and installed technical blocks to prevent hiQ from accessing otherwise publicly available information on LinkedIn users.

Preliminary data show U. S. motor vehicle deaths and injuries were down slightly in the first six months of 2017, although they were still significantly higher than they were two years ago, the National Safety Council said Tuesday.

The American workplace is grueling, stressful and surprisingly hostile. So concludes an in-depth study of 3,066 U. S. workers by the Rand Corp., Harvard Medical School and the University of California, …

Critics are throwing shade at Gov. Andrew Cuomo's pricey plan to install high-tech, color-changing lights on New York City's bridges, questioning whether the investment is the best use of public money.

Walmart says an internal investigation shows it was the victim of a prank when a photograph showed up on social media showing a sign reading "Own The School Year Like A Hero" atop a gun…

A judge will decide Saturday if the owner of an amateur-built submarine should be held in custody during an investigation into whether he is responsible for the disappearance of a Swedish woman who had been onboard his submarine that sank off Denmark's east coast. The woman's boyfriend alerted authorities that the sub had not returned, prompting a major search involving two helicopters, three ships and several private boats. Kristian Isbak, who had responded to the Navy's call to help locate the ship, sailed out immediately Friday and saw Madsen standing in the submarine's tower while it was still afloat.

Chinese authorities on Saturday released from jail a top Australian executive at a casino company following the completion of his sentence on gambling-related offenses. Jason O'Connor, head of Australia's Crown …