The commercial hub of Delaware is blocking startup ventures with past ties to Russia from maintaining their corporate standing in the state, ensnaring some tech firms that say they have little or no current connection to Russia following its invasion of Ukraine...

Larry Fink can’t catch a break. He’s chairman and CEO of BlackRock, the largest investment manager in the world, with $8.5 trillion of assets under management. In the battle over sustainable investing and the spread of environmental, social and governance policies across Wall Street, both sides are gunning for him...

Lawyers for Elon Musk and Twitter Inc. TWTR 1.37%▲ debated several pending requests for information in their continuing legal fight, with less than three weeks to go before a scheduled trial over Mr. Musk’s soured $44 billion takeover. Among the issues discussed were whether Mr. Musk’s team should have access to certain documents that Twitter has claimed are protected by attorney-client privilege and the proposed terms around allowing Mr. Musk to incorporate details about a Twitter whistleblower’s settlement payment into his argument for terminating the deal...

Biogen Inc. agreed to pay $900 million to settle allegations that it paid kickbacks to doctors to induce them to prescribe the company’s drugs, the Justice Department said Monday. From 2009 to March 2014, Biogen allegedly used speaking and consulting fees and other remuneration to persuade doctors to prescribe the company’s multiple sclerosis drugs such as Avonex and Tecfidera, which resulted in fraudulent payments by Medicare and Medicaid for the drugs, according to a federal whistleblower lawsuit filed in 2012 by former Biogen employee Michael Bawduniak. The suit was unsealed in 2015...

Oracle Corp.’s top executives are again among the highest-paid at big U.S. companies, thanks to a decision last year to give them more time to earn stock options. Oracle Corp.’s Chairman Larry Ellison and Chief Executive Safra Catz were each paid total compensation of more than $138 million in the company’s fiscal year ended May 31, the company said in its annual proxy statement Friday...

American Airlines Group Inc. AAL -3.93%▼ and JetBlue JBLU -2.68%▼ Airways Corp. will defend their partnership in a trial starting this week against government allegations that they are squelching competition in New York and Boston and harming consumers throughout the country...

A mix of regulation, investor demands and insurance requirements is pushing companies to elevate the oversight of cybersecurity, officials from the U.S. and other countries say. While some companies in specific critical infrastructure sectors, such as energy and banking, must already comply with certain cybersecurity requirements, greater investment in digital defenses is needed across the board, said Brandon Wales, executive director at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency...

Uber Technologies Inc. is responding to a cybersecurity breach after a hacker claimed to have gained widespread access to the company’s computer systems. “We are currently responding to a cybersecurity incident. We are in touch with law enforcement and will post any additional updates here as they become available,” a Twitter account for the ride-hailing company tweeted Thursday night...

Twitter Inc. shareholders appear to be shrugging off the impact of whistleblower Peiter Zatko’s Senate testimony on Elon Musk’s attempt to back out of his $44 billion deal to buy the social-media company...

Occidental Petroleum entered the thick of the pandemic among the worst prepared of its U.S. oil-and-gas peers. Struggling with debt from an ill-timed $38 billion deal, Chief Executive Vicki Hollub was fending off activist investor Carl Icahn, who controlled two board seats...

Vivek Ramaswamy is bringing ESG battle to oil patch by calling on Chevron to slow spending on its energy-transition plan...

The No. 2 managers in finance departments are playing a more prominent role, with compensation to match...

Lysol maker Reckitt Benckiser RBGLY 0.72%▲ Group PLC said its chief executive is stepping down in a surprise move that sent shares of the consumer-goods giant lower...

Republicans are stepping up their efforts to prevent investors from considering environmental and other factors in their decisions. They are running up against the trillions of dollars in investments committed to funds addressing such concerns...

Lawyers for Elon Musk sent a new letter to Twitter Inc., TWTR -1.04%▼ again seeking to terminate his $44 billion agreement to buy the social-media platform, this time citing recent allegations made by whistleblower Peiter Zatko, Twitter’s former chief security officer...

When the activist investor Dan Loeb announced earlier this month that his hedge fund had taken a new stake in Walt Disney Co., DIS -2.89%▼ he called for a wide-ranging menu of changes. One was a “refresh” of Disney’s board...

The Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday voted to require companies to disclose how well top management’s pay tracked with corporate performance over several years, the culmination of a long-delayed effort by the U.S. securities regulator...

A bankruptcy judge declined a request by Revlon Inc. minority shareholders to form an official committee to represent equity holders’ interests in the cosmetics company, which has rallied in the stock market despite its chapter 11 filing...

A whistleblower’s complaint opens up new political and legal challenges for Twitter Inc. TWTR -7.32%▼ in Washington, as lawmakers and regulators examine possible responses to the social-media company’s alleged missteps...

Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. BBBY -19.63%▼ suffered another blow this week when its highest-profile investor sold out, just months after buying up shares and securing seats on the board...

As Kewsong Lee’s five-year contract was drawing to a close, advisers to Carlyle Group Inc.’s CG -6.23%▼ CEO worked with representatives of the buyout firm to prepare an initial proposal for a new deal. Submitted this past spring, the contract proposal never got a response from Carlyle’s board, according to people familiar with the matter...

Carlyle CG -1.10%▼ Group Inc. Chief Executive Kewsong Lee is leaving the private-equity firm, as it struggles to expand and its shares lag...

Tesla Inc. TSLA 2.27%▲ investors on Thursday are expected to clear the way for the company to complete its second stock split in about two years...