Some residents and businesses in rural America face a perplexing problem: They know people are trying to call their phones and sometimes failing, but they don’t know why.

Activist investor Starboard Value has taken a stake in Dollar Tree and is pushing the retailer to sell its Family Dollar business and tweak its pricing model.

Federal Reserve officials, after navigating the U.S. economy through the financial crisis and its rebound, face a fresh test in 2019: managing an economic soft landing.

The industry sold about 17.3 million vehicles in 2018, up less than 1% from a year earlier. That marked a record fourth straight year, surpassing the 17-million level, a resilient showing for an industry prone to boom-and-bust cycles.

Delta Air Lines said it isn’t raising fares as much as expected, fanning concerns that major carriers will struggle to maintain profits as lower fuel prices lead customers to expect cheaper flights.

Bristol-Myers Squibb agreed to acquire Celgene for about $74 billion, creating a cancer-drug powerhouse, but one with questions about its long-term prospects.

Apple has slipped to the fifth-biggest phone seller in China, trailing four homegrown producers that have all been growing in popularity.

Apple shares fell steeply after the iPhone maker slashed its quarterly revenue forecast as it deals with shrinking demand in China and fewer owners upgrading their phones.

CEO Mark Bristow said he is optimistic Barrick Gold will soon resolve a tax and revenue-sharing dispute in Tanzania that has idled most of the company’s mining operations in the country.

Apple lowered its sales outlook for its fiscal first quarter, a rare revision to its guidance, blaming slowing sales of smartphones and other devices in China.

Tribune Media’s television stations and the WGN America cable channel have gone dark for Charter Communications’s Spectrum customers after the companies failed to reach an agreement over content fees.

Blake Nordstrom, the 58-year-old heir to the Nordstrom Inc. fortune who ran the department-store chain with his two brothers, died unexpectedly Wednesday morning.

Tesla reported Model 3 sedan deliveries that missed Wall Street’s estimates and said it would cut prices on all its vehicles, news that drove shares of the electric-car maker down nearly 7%.

Miners in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana are leaving more of the fossil fuel in the ground as prices fall for alternatives including natural gas.

Despite world-wide concerns about unmanned aircraft buzzing around airports, suppliers of commercial drone-detection equipment generally have been looking elsewhere for sales.

Americans’ growing battle against illegal robocallers has reached a boiling point, with victims of one form of phone-related malfeasance now lashing out at those impacted by a different form: phone-number spoofing.

U.S.-led efforts to curb Huawei should have been good news for telecom-equipment makers Nokia and Ericsson—but things haven’t turned out to be so simple.

More car dealers, as well as startups, are offering direct sales through their websites, as consumers become more comfortable buying big-ticket items online.

An annual roundup of the technology that will affect your life in the year ahead: Mobile 5G will finally making its U.S. debut, there will be more reasons than ever to cut the cord, and of course Harry Potter, who will unite wizards and teach us the true meaning of augmented reality.

Newspapers printed by Tribune Publishing were delivered on time across the U.S. on Sunday, a day after a cyberattack against the publisher hobbled the distribution of some of the nation’s biggest titles.

Former Nissan Motor Chairman Carlos Ghosn can be held in jail without the possibility of bail until Jan. 11, lengthening a detention that has gone on for a month and a half.

Amazon.com is planning to build and expand Whole Foods stores across the U.S. to put more customers within range of the e-commerce giant’s two-hour delivery service.

Edward Lampert’s ESL Investments moved forward with an offer to save Sears stores, but the retailer’s survival isn’t guaranteed.

Smaller, ultraefficient long-range airliners are overtaking the once celebrated giant of the sky. It is a mixed blessing for passengers, who can pick from more direct flights, but often end up in crammed planes offering fewer perks.

Dell Technologies made its re-entry to the public markets, five years after its eponymous founder and a big private-equity firm took it private in the biggest-ever technology leveraged buyout.

Despite vigorous efforts to court customers who would otherwise have shopped at the shuttered retailer, the toy industry appears to have largely missed out on the holiday spending spree during that critical time of year.

Tesla named two new independent directors including Oracle’s Larry Ellison, a public booster of Tesla CEO Elon Musk, as the board has been under pressure to increase oversight of its outspoken founder.

After years of thriving under Beijing’s relatively light hand, China’s fast-growing technology sector is facing an unfamiliar situation: stepped-up government scrutiny.

More primary-care doctors work directly for hospitals, and they are being pushed to keep lucrative referrals for specialists, surgeries and MRIs in-house. That can mean a smaller pool of potential doctors to see and higher out-of-pocket costs.

McDonald’s is adding meatier sandwiches and $1 sandwiches to its breakfast menu, focusing on mornings to address a softening in U.S. sales and rivals’ new breakfast offerings.

American energy companies have spent billions of dollars in the past decade exploring for natural gas. But in parts of Texas and New Mexico, there is now so much of it that it is sometimes worthless.

The latest investigation by Tokyo prosecutors into Nissan Motor’s Carlos Ghosn centers on his relationship with a Saudi Arabian businessman, Khaled Al Juffali, who runs part of Nissan’s Middle East business.

Blue Apron Holdings, the meal-kit pioneer, has entered a partnership with WW, formerly known as Weight Watchers, giving it potential access to millions of customers interested in healthy eating.

“Black Panther” and other Disney superheroes powered Hollywood to a record year at the box office, which is expected to finish 2018 with ticket sales up about 6% from last year’s returns.

Former Nissan Motor representative director Greg Kelly was released on bail, breaking Japanese prosecutors’ monthlong hold over one of the defendants in their case against former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn.