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Airbnb's quarterly results are likely to show the pandemic may have helped the home rental company lure leisure travelers away from big hotels during the global travel collapse of 2020.

Costco Wholesale Corp said on Thursday it would raise the minimum wage for its hourly staff to US$16 per hour starting next week, a dollar more than what its competitors Walmart Inc, Amazon.com Inc and Target Corp pay their staff.

Coinbase, the biggest U.S. cryptocurrency exchange, moved a step closer to listing on the Nasdaq with a filing on Thursday to go public, revealing that it had swung into profit last year as bitcoin surged.

SINGAPORE: Members of Parliament (MP) on Thursday (Feb 25) discussed issues involving women, youths, sustainability and Singapore’s fiscal position on the second day of the Budget 2021 debate. In particular, they suggested how to better support women, hear youth voices, preserve parks and forests ...

Fewer Americans filed new claims for unemployment benefits last week amid falling COVID-19 infections, but the near-term outlook for the labor market is unclear after winter storms wreaked havoc in the South region in the middle of this month.

SINGAPORE: The issue of foreign workers in Singapore was again raised in Parliament during the Budget debate on Thursday (Feb 25), with MPs from both sides of the aisle speaking up on the matter. Non-Constituency MP Leong Mun Wai (PSP) said there was an “urgent need” to rebalance the...

Wix.com, which helps small businesses build and operate websites, said on Thursday it had reached 200 million users globally after adding by more than 31 million users in 2020.

Twitter Inc said on Thursday it expects to double its annual revenue to at least US$7.5 billion in 2023.

Tesla Inc has told workers it will temporarily halt some production at its car assembly plant in California, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing a person familiar with the matter.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, unions and elected U.S. officials are urging Congress to take speedy action to dramatically boost spending on crumbling U.S. infrastructure.