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Facebook Inc. is joining an increasingly crowded market for local services, competing with Yelp Inc. and Angie’s List Inc., as well as tech giants Amazon.com Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and LinkedIn Corp.

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Amazon.com Inc. was spared Monday in a vote by the Seattle City Council to allow contract drivers to unionize.

Amazon.com Inc. was spared Monday in a vote by the Seattle City Council to allow contract drivers to unionize.

Amazon.com Inc. was spared Monday in a vote by the Seattle City Council to allow contract drivers to unionize.

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said on Tuesday he won't "second-guess" the decisions made by Los Angeles officials to close their schools after receiving threats. Authorities made decisions in the best interests of their communities. Photo: AP

Facebook Inc. is joining an increasingly crowded market for local services, competing with Yelp Inc. and Angie’s List Inc., as well as tech giants Amazon.com Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and LinkedIn Corp.

Facebook Inc. is joining an increasingly crowded market for local services, competing with Yelp Inc. and Angie’s List Inc., as well as tech giants Amazon.com Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and LinkedIn Corp.

The volume of ads airing in the Republican primary race is up 45% from the same period in 2011—but more ads aren’t necessarily pushing up poll numbers, according to a new report released Tuesday.

This year was a turning point for Windows and Windows laptops. WSJ's Joanna Stern tested 20 of the latest machines, and presents her top picks. Photo: F. Martin Ramin/The Wall Street Journal.

The musical story of Jesus Christ's final hours is coming to Fox on March 20, 2016. The event will be hosted and narrated by filmmaker and actor Tyler Perry.

U.S. soldier Bergdahl may face life sentence in court-martial over desertion, President Obama says coalition hitting Islamic State 'harder than ever' and get ready for a terrible slate of NFL games.

What if your small business data is held for ransom; profiting from the climate agreement in Paris; and the race to make a hand-held device to scan food for bacteria.

A year after being battered by a hurricane, the Baja hot spot is buzzing again. A guide to the best places to eat, drink and stay.

Kids tech company Fuhu had a terrific Black Friday sales promotion, featuring $149 Nabi-branded tablets for $99. But the tablets haven’t shown up. Fuhu sent out emails warning the Black Friday sale was such a hit, deliveries could be delayed, though the company is hoping to catch up on orders soon.

What they refused to ask Tashfeen Malik.

Federal Reserve officials say they are nearly ready to raise rates after years of easy money, but they won’t know until they try if the tools they have devised will work or create new problems.

Three of the nation’s largest landlords have held discussions with Airbnb about allowing apartment dwellers to market rooms through the company’s global network in exchange for a slice of the revenue.

LightSquared and Trimble Navigation have settled their long-running legal fight over the wireless venture’s Global Positioning System network interfered with Trimble, the latest in a string of recent deals that moves the company closer to deploying its mobile wireless network.

Sweet, sour and salty, this radicchio salad from Justin Severino of Pittsburgh’s Cure and Morcilla comes together in minutes. Loaded with citrus, avocado, pistachios and goat cheese, it makes a light and satisfying meal.

FedEx’s fiscal second-quarter results should benefit from the booming e-commerce market and positive expectations for the holiday season.

The class-action litigation over the Ashley Madison data breach is testing how much privacy courts are willing to grant plaintiffs who sue companies for failing to protect their personal information.

Chip maker Qualcomm made the right call in staying together, but that doesn’t make its problems go away.

Embattled drugmaker Valeant Pharmaceuticals’ books look very different from those of its peers. Here are three ways its accounting is unusual.

Bonnie Baha, director of global developed credit at Doubleline, tells Jack Otter of Barron's that neither inflation nor recent hiring trends offer good reasons for the Federal Reserve to increase interest rates.