Google agreed to pay close to 1 billion euros ($1.10 billion) to French authorities to settle a fiscal fraud probe that began four years ago in a deal that may create a legal precedent for other large tech companies present in the country.

The Ruby Tuesday in the Shops at Rockvale closed suddenly earlier this month. The restaurant along Route 30 at the eastern edge of the outlet center was among more than a dozen locations the restaurant chain closed this month.

U.S. e-cigarettes maker Juul Labs Inc, which faces a widening crackdown on vaping at home, has entered China, with online storefronts on e-commerce sites owned by Alibaba Group and JD.com to tap the world’s largest market of smokers.

Chinese companies have started to inquire about prices for U.S. agricultural goods purchases, Beijing said on Thursday, in a further sign of potential de-escalation in the bitter and protracted trade war between the world’s two largest economies.

Walmart said Thursday it will be expanding a new “unlimited” grocery delivery service, which costs users $98 annually, to 1,400 stores this fall.

GreenWorks Development plans to build a mixed-use commercial and residential development on a parking lot at 320 Reilly St. that is currently being used as a temporary parking lot for the midtown campus of HACC.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday continued his verbal assault on the Federal Reserve, which he blames for slowing the economy, tweeting that the central bank should cut interest rates to zero or even set negative interest rates. 

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing said Wednesday it had made a proposal to the LSE to combine the two companies in a cash and share deal worth £29.6 billion, or £31.6 billion ($39 billion) including debt.

Back in 2016, Walgreens and East Pennsboro Township-based Rite Aid agreed to sell 865 stores to Memphis retailer Fred’s as part of an agreement with the Federal Trade Commission in hopes of pushing the merger forward. That merger failed and now almost three years later Fred’s has filed for bankruptcy.

China just waived import tariffs on more than a dozen US goods. It's the first time Beijing has issued such exemptions since the US-China trade war began.

A federal appeals court revived a lawsuit by Spirit Airlines passengers who said the low-cost carrier blindsided them by imposing unexpected carry-on bag fees on tickets bought through Cheapoair, Expedia, Priceline and Travelocity.

U-Gro Learning Centres broke ground Tuesday morning for an early education child-care center near Brownstown, its seventh Lancaster County location and the 14th overall for the Hershey-based firm.

Effective April 22, 2020, it will stop having single-use plastic bags at its checkouts, becoming the first supermarket company in the county to do so, Stauffers says.

Target said Tuesday it’s looking to hire more than 130,000 seasonal workers to help it meet demand during the holiday shopping season, up from its goal for 120,000 workers in 2018.

About 27 years ago, a nine-month-old Genesis Ortega left the Dominican Republic with her parents for a new life in the United States. The family eventually settled in Allentown, leaving the unstable political environment of their homeland behind, in hopes of better opportunities.