Equipment Leasing Small Business News + More Franchise vs. Start-up: Which One Works for You? + MORE 11/14/2016

For Chinese billionaire Jia Yueting, who seemed to defy gravity as he pursued a vision of challenging Apple, Netflix, Amazon.com and Tesla all at once with his LeEco conglomerate, funding problems may mean a return to Earth.

Here are three things to consider when deciding if you should invest in commercial real estate.

This is how the newest crop of entrepreneurs balances full-time parenting with running a business.

Scott Kirby can be a whiz with airline numbers, and that is just what United Continental shareholders are craving as the carrier prepares for its first investor day in two years on Tuesday.

Shareholders are set to vote Tuesday on a $1.2 billion deal for AMC to acquire Carmike Cinemas. If that is cleared, and combined with AMC’s $650 million purchase of Europe’s Odeon & UCI Cinemas, AMC’s theatrical footprint would expand to about 900 locations, from about 388.

The presidency of Donald Trump is poised to usher in a new era for the U.S. economy that forecasters say could boost economic growth, bring higher interest rates and inflation, and a new set of potential risks including international trade wars.

Here are some pros and cons of each model — decide which works best for you.

Startups fail for a lot of reasons: a lack of money (duh), poor marketing, a pivot gone awry, legal challenges. But another, different reason tops the list year after year.

Moviegoers drained by the drama of the U.S. presidential election sought refuge at the movies over the weekend, where ticket sales were robust. Marvel’s “Doctor Strange” led the North American box office for the second week with $43 million, according to estimates Sunday.

Columnist Christopher Mims says U.S. manufacturing industries have an opportunity to use technology innovations to revolutionize production.

Donald Trump campaigned on a promise to resurrect the ailing U.S. coal industry and put miners back to work. Delivering on that vow could prove nearly impossible.

The push to offer consumers battery-powered electric cars is building even as the market share for these vehicles remain less than 1%, and cheap gasoline makes the marketing job much tougher.

Slack Technologies built up a $3.8 billion valuation by getting millions of office workers to use its group messaging app. Now some of the tech industry’s biggest players want to be part of the conversation.

As the battle for control of the $40 billion media empire spanning Viacom and CBS was escalating over the summer, the grandson of controlling shareholder Sumner Redstone secretly reached out to Viacom’s embattled CEO to begin settlement talks.