Equipment Leasing Small Business News + More Apps Empower Workers, Ease Scheduling + MORE 01/04/2017

Shell helped sell investors on its $50 billion acquisition of BG Group by promising to unload $30 billion in assets. Executing these asset sales has become crucial for retaining shareholder confidence and reducing the company’s mountain of debt.

By offering all three benefits of a price- and propostion-simplifier, Uber’s founders were able to create a service no one knew they needed.

Intel Corp. is acquiring a 15% stake in Here International, joining the digital mapmaker’s core shareholders BMW AG, Daimler AG and Volkswagen AG’s Audi unit in developing navigation technology for self-driving cars.

Before you take your passions and pursuits to the next level make sure you avoid these six pitfalls.

British American Tobacco terminated the supplier agreement for its long-delayed Voke nicotine inhaler, which the tobacco giant had promoted as setting it apart in the market for cigarette alternatives.

From public speaking to app development to building a personal brand with Gary Vaynerchuk, these courses are too good to pass by.

Lawyers representing owners of tainted Volkswagen diesel-powered cars in Germany filed the first lawsuit seeking consumer compensation for damages from the car maker’s diesel scandal in a test case that could turn up pressure on it to compensate millions of European customers.

New smartphone apps are putting technology directly into the hands of workers and allowing them to share information, make schedule changes, report labor violations and potentially organize for change. Employers are watching such apps warily.

Qualcomm thinks of its latest smartphone chip as a “connected device” chip, a bid to outdistance rivals such as Intel in the burgeoning market for gadgets and equipment with computing and communications capabilities built in.

Star Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly is leaving the cable news juggernaut to join NBC, where she will take on a variety of roles, NBC said Tuesday.

More than 170,000 people are expected to attend the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, walking through a maze of 3,800 exhibitors spread over 2.5 million square feet.

Xerox Corp.’s stock basked in its first day of trading since the legacy firm of the same name split in two—while the tandem’s other publicly traded company took a hit in its debut.

President-elect Donald Trump took aim at General Motors over Chevy Cruze cars that it imports from Mexico, while Ford scrapped plans for a new small-car factory in Mexico that Mr. Trump has criticized.