Nissan, BMW of North America and Ford claim their airbag supplier Takata withheld information about faulty inflators, which have caused airbags to rupture and injure people.

Ivanka Trump's products weren't always the hottest items online. That changed dramatically in February - and continues even as major department stores have said they stop selling her brand.

Plans for a free trade agreement between Australia and the European Union have hit another big delay, which trade minister Steven Ciobo has blamed on the EU.

​Having reached the top of a major corporation and amassed a fortune, chief executives often wonder: What's next?

Company boards are on notice. The world's third largest asset manager will use its proxy voting powers to influence greater gender diversity.

US President Donald Trump has won preliminary approval to register 27 new trademarks in China for industries including restaurants and advertising, business interests that could add to criticism over his potential conflicts.

Airbnb is considering an expansion in the long-term rental business, sources say.

These days it is not so uncommon to meet people who say they predicted Donald Trump was going to win well before the shock election.

Snap said last week it expected investors buying up to a quarter of the shares in the IPO to agree not to sell them for a year.

Wall Street visitors and tourists will notice a new addition if they're walking down Broadway in New York this week.

Travis Kalanick, chief executive of Uber, is seeking a No. 2 executive to lend him a hand after a bumpy start to his year.

Superstar railroad executive Hunter Harrison is demanding compensation in the nine figures to take the top job at CSX Corp, much of it tied to stock awards.

After a euphoric public market debut, Snap shares dropped for the first time in three days after analysts began weighing in with their thoughts on the company's true valuation.

The Snuggie case and others like it show how companies may go to great lengths to avoid the barriers governments impose on imported products.

Cream, cheese and butter are seldom used in commercial Chinese kitchens. Now dairy exporters like Fonterra are working to change that.

Deutsche Bank plans to raise capital, list its asset management business and overhaul its business structure as it tries to reinvent itself after spending two years dealing with its past misdeeds and huge losses.

In the US and Europe, about a quarter of the billionaires on the index are age 80 or older, compared to 20 per cent in Asia.

​The world's largest technology investor is preparing to ramp up his bet on the Trump economy.

Uber has for years engaged in a worldwide program to deceive authorities in markets where its low-cost ride-hailing service was being resisted by law enforcement, or in some instances, had been outright banned.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP's epic screw-up at the Oscars could carry a high cost if jurors arrive at a malpractice trial next week suspecting the global accounting firm is error-prone.

A typical year sees seven or eight movies with toy tie-ins. This year there are about 25, an unprecedented number for the $26.5 billion toy industry.

• ANALYSIS

At its current price, Snap makes its much bigger rival Facebook - not to mention internet stalwarts such as Google, Amazon and even Netflix - look like bargain-basement "value" stocks.

Jason Chang's enthusiasm for doing business in Indonesia is as clear as it is unusual.

Mexico's biggest cement maker said it would be willing to provide supplies for the US border wall proposed by President Donald Trump, ending months in which the company declined to comment on the potential project.

The witness statements from a $211m lawsuit against a pair of billionaire property developers, Nick and Christian Candy, read like a film script. The allegations are so lurid they could be made into a thriller — although audiences might have some trouble believing the more colourful scenes.

Asia Pacific is the world's most exposed region to natural disasters.

Y​ahoo's top lawyer Ronald Bell has resigned, and its chief executive Marissa Mayer lost her 2016 bonus, after a board investigation of the 2014 theft of information on more than 500 million user accounts.

No one on earth has lost more in the past months - from a dollar and cents standpoint, at least - than Mexican telecom billionaire Carlos Slim, Donald Trump' nemesis south of the wall he's planning to build.

Imagine if your net worth increased by $US2 billion ($2.6 billion) a day for the past week. That's what happened when shares of China's largest parcel delivery company, S.F. Express, made their debut and turned founder Wang Wei into the country's third-richest man.