Amazon.com Inc. loves to tinker and test. Sometimes projects that seemed like mindless fiddling — the Kindle e-reader, the Prime shopping club, its Amazon Web Services cloud-computing operation — turned out to be important advances for the company, its customers and the technology industry. Despite that history, I have to ask: Does Amazon know what it’s doing in groceries? When ...

Bloomberg Italy risked failure in its latest attempt to bail out bankrupt airline Alitalia, after two companies involved in the rescue got cold feet, raising the prospect of at least a temporary nationalisation of the carrier. State rail operator Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane SpA (FS) said that conditions aren’t in place to form a group to save the airline from ...

Bloomberg A Boeing Co lawyer said the aircraft maker has reached settlements in more than 60 wrongful death cases filed after a 737 Max 8 plane flown by Lion Air crashed in Indonesia last year, killing all 189 people aboard. Attorney Dan Webb told US District Judge Jorge L Alonso in Chicago that Boeing has reached agreements involving 63 or ...