McDonald’s Corp. is asking restaurant owners in the U.S. to make dozens of changes to ease coronavirus concerns before reopening their dining rooms, including commitments to clean bathrooms every half-hour and digital kiosks after each order.

The world’s largest fast-food company by sales is also asking its hundreds of U.S. franchisees to enforce social distancing in its restaurants, and either close their public soda fountains or deploy a staff member to monitor them, according to a 59-page dine-in reopening guide viewed...

Amazon.com hurt many retailers. Coronavirus will finish some of them off.

Even as malls and stores begin to reopen, the Covid-19 pandemic has taken a toll on an industry already battered by the shift to online shopping. More than two million retail jobs disappeared in April as many stores closed. The damage will be clear Friday when the U.S. government reports what is expected to be one of the worst months for retailers since World War II.

Delta Air Lines Inc. said it would remove Boeing Co. 777 aircraft from its fleet by the end of the year, a sign the airline believes international travel will recover slowly from the coronavirus pandemic.

Retiring the fleet will help “stop the bleeding” as the airline looks to conserve cash, Chief Executive Ed Bastian wrote in a letter to employees on Thursday. Delta is burning $50 million a day, Mr. Bastian said, a rate the airline wants to reduce to zero by the end of the year.

Comcast Corp.’s NBCUniversal said some original shows would be ready for the July launch of its streaming service, Peacock, although the status of some series anticipated for the platform remains uncertain because of production delays caused by the pandemic.

“Brave New World”—the series Peacock touted early on that is based on the Aldous Huxley novel and stars Demi Moore—will air July 15, when the streaming service is available across the U.S., the company said Thursday.

Ford Motor Co. executives tried to reassure investors Thursday the auto maker was on track with a plan to lift its beaten-down stock price, as a halting restructuring effort that began nearly two years ago has been complicated by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Executives told investors during a webcast of its annual meeting that 2019’s results fell short of goals, in part because of unexpectedly high warranty costs and a troubled rollout of a redesigned Explorer sport-utility vehicle.

Boeing Co. Chief Executive David Calhoun’s prediction of a major U.S. airline’s demise has prompted complaints from some of the plane maker’s biggest customers as they grapple with fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, people familiar with the matter said.

American Airlines Group Inc. CEO Doug Parker called the Boeing chief this week to express surprise and disappointment after Mr. Calhoun told a television interviewer that a major U.S. airline would most likely go out of business by this fall, one of these people said.

Cybersecurity firm Rapid7 Inc. last year installed tiny cameras around its Austin, Texas, office to track how its staff used the space. Now it’s using those same cameras to keep workers apart.

People-counting cameras, also known as artificial-intelligence-powered sensors, have become a niche tool in recent years to help companies better use their office space, and in some cases trim real-estate costs. They are now being repurposed to meet a surge in demand from employers eager to comply with government guidelines on social...

On-the-fly rule changes are bedeviling small-business owners who got government-backed loans meant to keep them afloat during the coronavirus shutdown.

Around three-quarters of the $670 billion loan program has been allotted, and some business owners approved for loans are wading through a thicket of rule changes to determine whether they still qualify.

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A Bangladeshi manufacturer expected to be paid shortly after it shipped in February more than $400,000 of jeans to Los Angeles to fulfil an order by a western apparel company.

Nearly three months later, the clothes maker still hasn’t received its money and doesn’t know where the jeans are. The company’s owner expected payment shortly after shipping, in line with what he said was the companies’ usual arrangement.

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Verizon Communications Inc. has agreed to buy videoconferencing company Blue Jeans Network Inc., according to people familiar with the matter, as an unprecedented number of people work remotely because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The carrier will pay less than $500 million for the Zoom Video Communications Inc. rival, a person familiar with the terms said. The deal is part of an effort to bolster Verizon’s business group as the carrier rolls out faster 5G networks and pitches new applications of wireless technology to its...

J.C. Penney Co. said it skipped a $12 million interest payment owed to bondholders, one of the first major retailers to buckle under the strains of the coronavirus pandemic.

With its stores shut, J.C. Penney said Wednesday in a securities filing that it skipped the payment to evaluate strategic alternatives. Other struggling chains, including Neiman Marcus Group Inc. and J.Crew Group Inc., also have been in negotiations with creditors this month, according to people familiar with the matter.

Public-safety call centers are confronting an unexpected 911 emergency: keeping the people who answer the phone healthy.

As the new coronavirus spreads in communities across the U.S., 911 call centers are grappling with how to ensure their dispatchers don’t get infected—and what to do if they run short on workers trained to field emergency calls.

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