10:24 AM EDT, 04/10/2025 (MT Newswires) -- General Motors ( GM ) is temporarily laying off about 200 employees at its Factory Zero plant in Detroit, Reuters reported Thursday, citing a company statement. The company reportedly said the layoffs are necessary to adjust production based on current market conditions. The job cuts are not connected to the recent auto tariffs,...

April 10 (Reuters) - BMW is considering adding shifts to its Spartanburg plant in South Carolina to boost output by up to 80,000 units, executives said on an analyst call on Thursday, according to a note by Bernstein Research. The premium carmaker had around 30 days' worth of inventory in the United States as well as some stocks and components,...

SYDNEY, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Google agreed on Monday to pay a A$55 million ($35.8 million) fine in Australia after the consumer watchdog found it had hurt competition by paying the country's two largest telcos to pre-install its search application on Android phones, excluding rival search engines. The fine extends a bumpy period for the Alphabet-owned internet giant in Australia,...

BERLIN (Reuters) -BMW is considering adding shifts to its Spartanburg plant in South Carolina to boost output by up to 80,000 units, executives said on an analyst call on Thursday, as carmakers brainstorm ways to appease the Trump administration and ward off a mounting trade war. The premium carmaker had around 30 days' worth of inventory in the United States...