Tara Lachapelle

To snag some of this year’s Black Friday deals, a car won’t do you much good — try an ocean liner. Plenty of would-be holiday gifts are still at sea, caught up in a mess of global shipping delays. But shoppers who can’t find what they’re looking for this week may have another savings event to look…

Television fans have been willing to give just about every new streaming-TV service a shot. But “Squid Game” shows how Netflix Inc. has uniquely mastered the art of keeping its subscribers. Netflix surpassed expectations Tuesday when it reported 4.38 million net new members for the third quarter…

Disney+ could never play “Squid Game.” By now, many viewers have probably heard of Netflix Inc.’s creepy series out of South Korea, which has become a streaming sensation in recent weeks. A “dystopian survival story kind of like ‘Hunger Games,’” is how Netflix’s co-chief executive officer, Ted…

While streaming-video services such as HBO Max, Disney+ and Paramount+ and are still trying to develop Netflix-size followings among TV and movie fans, Netflix Inc. is already on to the next thing: video games. It just might help the streaming pioneer get out of a growth rut. After hinting…

As earnings season begins, one of the biggest emerging storylines is that Netflix Inc.’s most formidable rivals, led by Walt Disney Co., already may be starting to falter. If Disney can’t get to where Netflix is, can anyone? Netflix is set to kick off the industry’s quarterly reports next week…

Never mind the return to normal, Wall Street’s private equity shops are staging a return to abnormal. Leveraged buyouts are happening at a speed and extravagance that had been unique to 2006 and 2007, the run-up to the financial crisis. Private equity firms have already made $470 billion of…

Chess sets commemorating a recently popular television series are selling for upwards of $99. But “The Queen’s Gambit,” Netflix Inc.’s hit miniseries about a fictional chess prodigy, isn’t the theme. It’s HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” a fantasy drama that has nothing to do with the game: Why did …

Last year was painful for many. Along with those who lost loved ones to Covid-19, perhaps no one felt that pain more than the essential worker, the low-income single parent, the isolated, the marginalized. Often they were the same person. Whether Black and poor in a densely populated city, or White…

There are no fireworks over Cinderella Castle these days, and yet investors remain captivated by Walt Disney Co. Are they caught up in fantasy? The whimsical palace overlooking Disney’s Magic Kingdom in Orlando, Florida, has long stood as a symbol of the company and its status as both a source…

The post-Covid-19 “return to normal” that Americans long for is far enough away that not even a company built on dreams can see it. Walt Disney Co. on Tuesday said it will let go of an astonishing 28,000 employees at its US theme parks, which include Walt Disney World and Disneyland, as the…