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The lead shareholders of shipping giant AP Moller-Maersk agreed to buy Swedish engine part maker Concentric for 8.58 billion Swedish krona ($843 million).

DraftKings Inc. is looking to bolster its in-game betting technology, announcing a deal Wednesday to acquire Simplebet Inc.

Nvidia Corp. co-founder and Chief Executive Jensen Huang wasn’t able to completely assuage all the concerns from Wall Street on Wednesday, as the chip designer is seeing some of its heady growth slow amid a slightly delayed new-product launch.

Yelp Inc. took its long-simmering feud with Google to the next level Wednesday, filing an antitrust lawsuit against the tech giant and accusing it of using its dominant position to crush competition.

Following a steep rise in food prices, big restaurant chains like McDonald’s Corp. and Starbucks Corp. this year have warned of a more circumspect customer. But not everyone in the industry is seeing it.

Days after Lowe’s Cos. backed away from its diversity, equity and inclusion plans, Ford Motor Co. said it has done the same over the past year as DEI practices face attacks in court and from conservative activists.

Shares of Nutanix rose after the cloud-software company posted better-than-expected quarterly results and projected revenue for the current year ahead of Wall Street estimates.

BJ’s Restaurants said its chief executive Gregory S. Levin has stepped down, and that board member and former Darden’s Restaurants’ Chief Financial Officer C. Bradford Richmond has taken over as interim CEO.

While high home prices remain an obstacle to prospective home buyers even as mortgage rates fall, pent-up demand should benefit home builders in the stock market, according to Yardeni Research.

NFT exchange OpenSea just received bad news from the securities regulator.

Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. said Wednesday that it was speeding up its leadership changeover process, after its top ranks were shaken up by its chief executive’s pending departure for Starbucks Corp. and its chief financial officer’s plans to retire.

Victoria’s Secret & Co.’s stock rose in extended trading Wednesday after the intimate-apparel company swung to a profit in its second-quarter results and raised its 2024 sales outlook, boosted by North American sales.