Equipment Leasing Small Business News + More Car Suppliers Vie for Major Role in Self-Driving Boom + MORE 01/10/2017

VW executive Oliver Schmidt is suspected of participating in a conspiracy to defraud the U.S. in connection with the company’s emissions-cheating scandal.

Automotive suppliers are showcasing their new self-driving technology in an effort to become sellers of something more than commodity parts.

Alibaba executives are betting that a new leadership program will produce China-trained, globally minded leaders able to make and manage partnerships with Western retailers.

The company that has given consumers M&M’s chocolates and Skittles for years is making a bid to dominate the fast-growing pet-care business with a $7.7 billion purchase of veterinary and dog day-care company VCA.

Valeant agreed to sell three skin care brands including CeraVe to French cosmetics giant L’Oréal for $1.3 billion, the latest effort by the beleaguered drugmaker to unload assets and pare debt.

Auto makers, betting that rising gasoline prices won’t spoil America’s love affair with pickups and SUVs, are increasing their exposure to a light-truck segment that let the industry down a decade ago. But executives say it’s different this time.

The potential sale of Google’s satellite-imagery unit, Terra Bella, would be a rapid about-face for the company, which has recently shed some of its bolder ventures.

Yet another metaphor for entrepreneurship.

When television executives present their winter lineup of shows to media critics this week, officials from three of the nation’s four major broadcasters will sit out a panel to answer questions about the season or the industry, a break in tradition that signals the waning importance of press coverage.

As chief of Exxon Rex Tillerson hammered out multibillion-dollar deals with government leaders of all stripes. On the other hand, a company is not a country. The Senate, which is expected to consider Mr. Tillerson’s nomination on Wednesday, will weigh if this kind of expertise prepares him for the job of secretary of state.

Like a lot of good things in life, it is hiding in plain view.

Oil and gas companies, airlines and others have launched lobbying blitzes amid renewed hope for pro-business policy changes under a Trump administration.