Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc will spend $800 million in the current quarter to reduce delivery times for top customers to one day from two, trying to revive its main e-commerce franchise and ward off greater competition. The announcement came after the online retailer reported first-quarter profit that exceeded analysts’ estimates, demonstrating the company’s focus on cloud-computing, advertising, and other high-margin businesses ...

Bloomberg The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) next month will brief international aviation regulators on the agency’s work evaluating when the Boeing Co 737 Max can return to service, which some countries have signalled they intend to decide on their own. The FAA called the May 23 meeting “to provide participants the FAA’s safety analysis that will inform its decision ...

Bloomberg Carrefour SA’s growing sales of organic food helped the French retailer make up for continued weakness in its non-grocery business in the first quarter. Comparable sales rose 2.7 percent to $22.4 billion, the company said, a result that met analysts’ estimates. Growing sales of organic food are boosting Chief Executive Officer Alexandre Bompard’s effort to revamp the company’s sprawling ...