The Economist Business

Investors rush to sample the streaming boom

The business world’s commonest greeting is going out of fashion

A venture capitalist reinvents the military-industrial complex

They think that solid-state technology will help them do so

Talk of the importance of stakeholders is just that

The brain trust at the heart of the $550bn semiconductor industry

Big retailers must cope with shortages and with consumers’ stampede back to the aisles

It accuses online darlings like Coupang and Naver of picking up the old conglomerates’ bad habits

But only a bit

The case for shuffling staff around was looking stretched even before the pandemic

Who will be next?

We test three prevailing hypotheses about American business

It is not the end of a regulatory war

It is another foray by the French oil supermajor into dicey countries

Satellite and cable are now more popular in France and Germany than in America

Suits v sweatpants

Has Illumina found the holy GRAIL?

E-merchants also put profitability ahead of growth at all cost

Forty is the new 30

America’s historically hermetic semiconductor giant opens up—and tries to shake up its industry in the process