Apple creates a new head of China role and names exec to run it amid falling sales in the region

Apple has created a major new executive role in China and appointed the head of its wireless technologies unit to run it, reporting into CEO Tim Cook, as the technology giant struggles with falling sales in the world’s second-largest economy. Isabel Ge Mahe will...

Travel to Texas? Not on California’s Dime, You Don’t

By ALAN BLINDER July 19, 2017 DALLAS — Phillip Jones, whose job it is to court visitors to this city, spent months warning anyone who would listen: Economic pain will follow if Texas lawmakers pass laws seen as hostile to gay and transgender people....