DAVID HAMILTON

AP Business Writer

FILE - A Ford dealership in Springfield, Pa., Tuesday, April 26, 2022. Ford reports earnings on Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023 (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Ford earnings fall short of estimates after it strikes a tentative deal with the United Auto Workers

Ford has reported significant growth in the third quarter, although its financial results fell short of Wall Street estimates.

FILE - Lachlan Murdoch appears at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Feb. 9, 2020. Rupert Murdoch is stepping down at Fox and News Corp, son Lachlan will take over as chairman of both companies. For Lachlan Murdoch, this has been a long time coming — assuming, that is, his moment has actually arrived. On Thursday, his father Rupert Murdoch announced that he’s stepping down as the head of his two media companies — News Corp. and Fox Corp. -- as of November. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Meet Lachlan Murdoch, soon to be the new power behind Fox News and the Murdoch empire

For Lachlan Murdoch, this has been a long time coming — assuming, that is, his moment has actually arrived.

FILE - Kanye West, known as Ye, watches the first half of an NBA basketball game between the Washington Wizards and the Los Angeles Lakers, March 11, 2022, in Los Angeles. Adidas CEO Bjørn Gulden said on a recent podcast that he didn't believe that Ye “meant what he said” when he made a series of antisemitic remarks in 2022. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis, File)

Adidas CEO doubts that Kanye West really meant the antisemitic remarks that led Adidas to drop him

Adidas CEO Bjørn Gulden said he doubts that Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, “meant what he said” when he made a series of antisemitic and offensive remarks last year.

FILE - The lights of the state Capitol glow into the night in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. California, which already has some of the strongest digital privacy laws in the U.S., is on the verge of handing consumers a major new tool to combat the sale and secret use of personal information they may never have agreed to share. Both houses of the state legislature have passed the Delete Act, which would establish a “one stop shop” where individuals could order hundreds of often shadowy data brokers to delete information such as their location history and financial details.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Imagine making shadowy data brokers erase your personal info. Californians may soon live the dream

California has some of the strongest digital privacy laws in the U.S. and is on the verge of handing consumers a major new tool to combat the sale and secret use of personal information they may never have agreed to share.

FILE - The new iPhone 14 smartphones are on display at an Apple Store at The Grove in Los Angeles, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. Almost a week after the Apple faithful collectively gasped at the first evidence that the iPhone’s red “end call” button might soon be vacating its center position to take up residence one column to the right, it looks like it might have been mostly a false alarm. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

OK, we can relax. The iPhone ‘hang up’ button might not be moving much after all

Almost a week after the Apple faithful collectively gasped at the first evidence that the iPhone’s “end call” button might soon be shifting upward and a column to the right, it looks like the whole thing might have been a false alarm.

HP fails to derail claims that it bricks scanners on multifunction printers when ink runs low

HP Inc. has failed to shunt aside claims in a lawsuit that it disables scanners and other functions on its multifunction printers whenever the ink runs low.

Disney to boost prices for ad-free Disney+ and Hulu services and vows crackdown on password sharing

Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger vowed to make its streaming services profitable via a planned October price hike on its ad-free Disney+ and Hulu plans and a crackdown on password sharing expected to extend through next year.

FILE - Manager Nick Reynoza holds a 100-watt incandescent light bulb at Royal Lighting in Los Angeles, Jan. 21, 2011. New federal rules governing the energy efficiency of lighting systems went into full effect Tuesday, effectively ending the sale and manufacture of bulbs that trace their origin to an 1880 Thomas Edison patent. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Prepare to flick off your incandescent bulbs for good under new US rules that kicked in this week

Thomas Edison’s pioneering incandescent light bulb, which cast illumination by heating a filament until it glowed, is fading into history.

An unsold 2023 Model X sports-utility vehicle sits outside a Tesla dealership Sunday, June 18, 2023, in Littleton, Colo. Tesla earnings are reported on Wednesday. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Tesla income jumps 20%, but shares fall after hours amid profit concerns

Elon Musk’s big bet that Tesla price cuts can boost sales and profits amid increasing competition and poor economic sentiment appears to be yielding mixed results.

In this image provided by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, blue threads can be seen in a six shillings Delaware note printed by J. Adams on January 1, 1776. Counterfeiters found it difficult to duplicate the note. (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences via AP)

How Benjamin Franklin laid groundwork for the US dollar by foiling early counterfeiters

Benjamin Franklin, the colonial inventor, publisher, diplomat and U.S. founding father, was so busy that it’s easy to lose track of his accomplishments.

FTC investigating ChatGPT creator OpenAI over consumer protection issues

Ford Explorer recall prompts Transportation Department investigation

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating a Ford Motor Co. recall of more than a quarter-million Explorer SUVs in the U.S.