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By THE NEW YORK TIMES from NYT Business Day It’ll be concise, informative and entertaining, with three essential items from the past week and three for the week ahead. Read More

Samsung Gives First Glimpse of Foldable Phone

By REUTERS from NYT Business Day Samsung Electronics Co Ltd unveiled its much-anticipated foldable phone in San Francisco on Wednesday, urging Android developers to start writing apps for it. Read More

Your Boss Wants to Friend You on Facebook. What if You’d Rather Resist?

By ROB WALKER from NYT Business Day An employee is ignoring social-media contact from a manager. That might work in the short term. But here’s how to handle this situation and prepare for the next one. Read More

The Racecars Are Allards. He’s an Allard. There’s Just One Issue.

By JIM MOTAVALLI from NYT Business Day Head-turning Allards, precursors to the hugely popular AC Cobra, are being built again by Roger Allard, who is not related to the original family. Read More

The Confusing Sprawl of SoftBank’s Investments

By RICHARD BEALES from NYT Business Day The company’s Vision Fund held 38 stakes at the end of September, but they didn’t include names like Uber and Didi that you may expect to see on the list. Read More

Siemens Expects Moderate Growth Next Year

By REUTERS from NYT Business Day Shrugging off global trade tensions, the German conglomerate said it saw limited risks next year and expected sales to increase. Read More

When Robots Ring the Bell

By JANET MORRISSEY from NYT Business Day A recent episode at the New York Stock Exchange was designed to prove that robots and people can happily coexist. Business research proves it’s possible — with certain caveats. Read More

Fortune Magazine Sold to Thai Businessman for $150 Million

By CHRISTINE HAUSER and EDMUND LEE from NYT Business Day Meredith acquired the title with a $2.8 billion acquisition of Time Inc. last November, in a deal that made it the largest magazine publisher in America. Read More

A Year After #MeToo, Hollywood’s Got a Malaise Money Can’t Cure

By BROOKS BARNES from NYT Business Day Reforms are in doubt. Consolidation is threatening jobs. And Netflix is changing the very definition of film. Read More

Trump Threatens to Retaliate Against Reporters Who Don’t Show ‘Respect’

By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM from NYT Business Day The president, speaking on the South Lawn before leaving for a brief jaunt to Paris, also targeted the reporter April D. Ryan with an unprompted diatribe in which he called her a “loser.” Read More

Tech C.E.O.s Are in Love With Their Principal Doomsayer

By NELLIE BOWLES from NYT Business Day The futurist philosopher Yuval Noah Harari thinks Silicon Valley is an engine of dystopian ruin. So why do the digital elite adore him so? Read More

Fact-Checking Trump’s Claims About the Chinese Economy

By RAYMOND ZHONG from NYT Business Day At a news conference, the president answered a question about healing national divides by saying, falsely, that he had forced China to back down from a plan to strengthen its manufacturing industry. Read More

Disney’s Profit Soars, but Focus Remains on Its Coming Streaming Service

By BROOKS BARNES from NYT Business Day Despite Disney’s record annual profit of $12.6 billion, Wall Street is waiting for its high-risk plan to roll out a streaming service late next year. Read More

DealBook Briefing: Why Corporate America Is Content With the Midterms

By Unknown Author from NYT Business Day Gridlock in Washington means that there will be few nasty surprises in store for businesses in the coming months. Read More

A Flashy Qatari Deal Hints at the Nation’s New Investment Style

By GEORGE HAY from NYT Business Day The Gulf state’s wealth fund is under new management, and looks to be prioritizing the acquisition of trophy assets. Read More

The Mad Dash to Find a Cybersecurity Force

By PAULETTE PERHACH from NYT Business Day Employers and educators are rethinking the way they attract and train potential employees to meet the demands of an increasingly vulnerable online world. Read More

Midterm Elections Deliver a Ratings Surge, With Fox News in the Lead

By JOHN KOBLIN from NYT Business Day CNN placed second in total viewers, with NBC taking first place among the major broadcast networks. Read More

Evelyn Y. Davis, Shareholder Scourge of C.E.O.s, Dies at 89

By EMILY FLITTER from NYT Business Day For more than 50 years she harangued executives, sometimes wearing a costume to make a point. And sometimes this gadfly got results. Read More

Trump Administration Uses Video From Conspiracy Site to Justify Barring of CNN Reporter

By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM and ELIZABETH WILLIAMSON from NYT Business Day The White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, posted a clip from a contributor to Infowars, the far-right site banned by YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. Read More

The 16-oz. Beer Can: A Cold One That’s a Hot One

By WENDY MACNAUGHTON from NYT Business Day Something nebulous about the slightly larger size signals high quality and high taste — with high sales to match. Read More

Ford Buying San Francisco-Area e-Scooter Startup Spin

By REUTERS from NYT Business Day Ford Motor Co said Thursday it will join the mushrooming micro-mobility movement with the acquisition of 2-year-old Spin, an electric scooter rental firm based in San Francisco. Read More

Your Office Doesn’t Have Nap Time Because You Are Not a Child

By CHOIRE SICHA from NYT Business Day Being a grown-up means being responsible for your choices. Like many grown-ups, you can also decide you don’t need to care. Read More

Sundar Pichai of Google: ‘Technology Doesn’t Solve Humanity’s Problems’

By DAVID GELLES from NYT Business Day Growing up in India, he slept on the floor of a house without a refrigerator. Today, the chief executive is steering Google through the most turbulent period in its history. Read More

Tesla Names Robyn Denholm as Chairwoman, Succeeding Elon Musk

By CARLOS TEJADA from NYT Business Day The car company tapped Robyn Denholm, one of its independent directors, as it seeks a counterbalance to Elon Musk, its chief executive. Read More

Facebook Had a Good Election Day. But It Can’t Let Up Now.

By KEVIN ROOSE from NYT Business Day Facebook made strides toward cleaning up its service in the last two years. But it continues to behave most responsibly only when placed under a microscope. Read More

Give Gig Economy Workers Equity? The S.E.C. Is Considering It

By DAVID GELLES from NYT Business Day Contractors like Uber drivers can’t receive stock in private companies. But that could soon change, in a move supported by tech companies. Read More

What Democratic Control of the House Could Mean for Your Wallet

By PATRICIA COHEN from NYT Business Day A change in control will block renewed tax-cut initiatives, but there may be room for accord on drug pricing and even stimulus, if the recovery falters. Read More

‘You Are a Rude, Terrible Person’: After Midterms, Trump Renews His Attacks on the Press

By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM from NYT Business Day At a tense White House news conference, the president lashed out at CNN’s Jim Acosta and repeatedly told other reporters to “sit down.” Read More

How CNN, Fox News and MSNBC Covered the Midterm Elections

By JACLYN PEISER, ZACH WICHTER and TIFFANY HSU from NYT Business Day An hour-by-hour guide showing how anchors and political pundits across the ideological spectrum grappled with a topsy-turvy night. Read More

From Day Trips to Sleepovers: How Regional Theme Parks Are Evolving

By CHRISTINE NEGRONI from NYT Business Day Smaller amusement parks have added restaurants, shops and hotels to take advantage of a strategy that dates back to the 1960s: Get visitors to stay longer. Read More

Wary Networks Dawdled on House Call, Until Fox News Led the Way

By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM and JOHN KOBLIN from NYT Business Day Early on, CNN’s Van Jones called it a “heartbreaking” night for liberals. Then came a bold projection from an unlikely source. Read More

Visions of a Tech Hub? Landing Amazon Is Just a Start

By BEN CASSELMAN from NYT Business Day How the company and local officials flesh out plans for the new corporate presence will be crucial to the economic lift it produces. Read More

Important European Financial Firm Bows to Trump’s Iran Sanctions

By PETER EAVIS from NYT Business Day Belgium’s Swift sits at the heart of the global financial system. Under pressure from the United States, it is cutting off Iranian banks. The European Union is not pleased. Read More

Sean Hannity Erased a Line by Taking the Stage With Trump

By JIM RUTENBERG from NYT Business Day A vague statement of disapproval from Fox News did not conceal how the network’s biggest star has gone from pundit to political player. Read More

Steve King Bars Some in News Media From Election Night Event

By MATT STEVENS from NYT Business Day The Des Moines Register was denied a request for credentials, the newspaper’s editor said. In an email, a campaign staff member called it “leftist propaganda.” Read More

China Grants Ivanka Trump Initial Approval for New Trademarks

By AUSTIN RAMZY from NYT Business Day The 16 new trademarks cover a broad array of goods and services, including purses, swimsuits, fire extinguishers and senior citizens’ homes. Read More

In China, Bill Gates Encourages the World to Build a Better Toilet

By SUI-LEE WEE from NYT Business Day The Microsoft co-founder’s Reinvented Toilet Expo featured innovative approaches to a global problem — the fact that billions have no access to safe sanitation. Read More

Google Workers Reject Silicon Valley Individualism in Walkout

By NOAM SCHEIBER from NYT Business Day Last week’s protest could be a sign that highly-paid workers are losing patience with the technology industry’s worldview and embracing collective action. Read More

Introducing ‘Work Friend,’ an Advice Column on Careers and Money and Other Gigantic Pains

By CHOIRE SICHA from NYT Business Day Submit your questions, and get devilish yet practical advice from an evolving cast of confidants. First up: Choire Sicha. Read More

Aretha Franklin Gospel Film Finally Has a Release Date, 46 Years After It Was Made

By BROOKS BARNES from NYT Business Day An Oscar push is planned for “Amazing Grace,” which captures a transcendent performance by the Queen of Soul at a Baptist church in Los Angeles in 1972. Read More

Iran Sanctions and Oil Prices: Who’ll Feel the Pain?

By CLIFFORD KRAUSS from NYT Business Day Markets have taken the Trump administration’s move in stride so far. But experts differ on whether a reduction in output could yet prove disruptive. Read More

SoftBank Chief Won’t Shun Saudi Arabia Despite Killing

By MICHAEL J. de la MERCED and SUI-LEE WEE from NYT Business Day Masayoshi Son, the chief executive of Japan’s SoftBank Group, condemned the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi but added that “we cannot turn our backs on the Saudi people.” Read More

Crazy Work Hours and Lots of Cameras: Silicon Valley Goes to China

By LI YUAN from NYT Business Day A group of Silicon Valley executives went to China and discovered a parallel tech universe that can be equally impressive, alienating and dystopian. Read More

On Election Night, Their Maps Show the Lay of the Land

By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM and JOHN KOBLIN from NYT Business Day Buckets of voters. Obscure swing counties. How John King, Steve Kornacki and Bill Hemmer bring the data to life with their whiz-bang “boards.” Read More

DealBook Briefing: SoftBank’s Chief Stands by the Saudis

By Unknown Author from NYT Business Day Masa Son says that the company has “a responsibility that we must uphold for the future of the people in Saudi Arabia.” Read More

Their Soybeans Piling Up, Farmers Hope Trade War Ends Before Beans Rot

By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM from NYT Business Day North Dakota’s soybean crops are flourishing. But China has stopped buying. Read More

China Seeks Allies as Trump’s Trade War Mounts. It Won’t Be Easy.

By KEITH BRADSHER from NYT Business Day President Xi Jinping kicks off a Shanghai event showing a growing Chinese appetite to buy from the rest of the world. Even critics of the U.S. have doubts. Read More

Election Ads Turn Nasty, but Candidates Still ‘Approve This Message’

By JIM RUTENBERG from NYT Business Day In 2002, lawmakers tried to save voters from election-season sludge. Their plan didn’t count on the ugly campaign tactics of President Trump. Read More

U.S. Sanctions on Iran Oil Take Effect, and the Fed Will Meet on Rates

By THE NEW YORK TIMES from NYT Business Day BMW’s earnings may show the effects of the trade war, Disney’s earnings are expected to be strong and E.U. ministers will discuss trade relations with the U.S. Read More

As Nigerian Fashion Booms, Women Lead Its Coverage

By ADENIKE OLANREWAJU from NYT Business Day Spurred by the leadership of entrepreneurial women and Nigeria’s cultural cachet around Africa and the world, the country’s fashion magazine industry has found a receptive audience. Read More