FTC launches inquiry into how big tech companies such as Microsoft, Amazon and Google are holding sway over AI startups

Billionaire whose family trust owns the Tottenham Hotspur soccer club pleads guilty to insider trading in New York

SANTA FE, N.M. — An effort to modernize state oversight of a thriving petroleum industry in the nation’s No. 2 state for oil production advanced past its first committee vetting Thursday at the New Mexico Legislature. The bill would rewrite portions of the state’s 1930s-era Oil and Gas Act in order to help regulators keep…

Apple has unveiled a sweeping plan to tear down some of the competitive barriers that it has built around its lucrative iPhone franchise, but the new choices opening up to consumers and app developers will only be available within Europe to start. The announcement Thursday comes as Apple moves to comply with upcoming European regulations…

JPMorgan Chase is reshuffling its leadership team, a move that many consider a succession plan even though its longtime chief executive, Jamie Dimon, has signaled he is staying put. Mr. Dimon, 67, has been head of what is now the largest bank in the United States for nearly two decades, and repeatedly brushed off suggestions…

Procter & Gamble’s price hikes boosted its earnings in the latest quarter, the company reported Tuesday, indicating that inflation-battered consumers haven’t turned away from the company’s higher-priced household items. Aside from price increases largely fueling sales growth, shoppers also bought more products across P&G’s beauty lines and health and family care offerings. P&G said that…

A proposed tax that would help fund new stadiums for the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs and baseball’s Kansas City Royals was shot down by a local Missouri legislator. Jackson County Executive Frank White vetoed an ordinance Thursday that would have put a 3/8th-cent sales tax renewal on the April ballot to fund the…