Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc. is taking a stab at the mattress business, joining the competition against startups such as bed-in-a-box pioneer Casper Sleep Inc. and retail rivals including Walmart Inc. The AmazonBasics foam mattress, starting at $130, was spotted by TJI Research, which monitors the e-commerce giant’s growing list of more than 120 private label products, including kitchen goods, batteries, clothing …

Bloomberg Just days after taking the top job at Air France-KLM, Chief Executive Officer Ben Smith is learning the hard way about the difficulties of running a French state-backed business. Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire publicly took the Canadian to task for being quoted in the Financial Times as saying that the government was prepared to sell its 14 percent …

Bloomberg Delta Air Lines Inc. blamed a “physical device issue” for a systems failure that forced the carrier to briefly ground all domestic flights earlier this week. Chief Executive Officer Ed Bastian provided few details about the cause of the disruption. Speaking at the Skift Global Forum in New York, he referred to the September 25 problem as “a hiccup” …