U.S. companies rebounded from a lackluster showing in the first quarter of the year with a surge in profits that’s expected to fuel even more economic growth in the months ahead. The Commerce Department reported this week that after-tax profits among U.S. companies jumped 16.1 percent on a year-over-year during the quarter that ended June 30, qualifying as the largest such increase since 2012. The boom was especially pronounced in the banking industry, which pocketed more after-tax profits than…

Recent changes that might increase federal tax bills for entrepreneurs and executives could turn the trickle out of California into a wave.

New apartment openings are projected to drop nearly 40 percent in the city of Seattle, but the number of planned rental units is skyrocketing in Redmond.

Mikaela Kiner, CEO of UniquelyHR, argues that artificial intelligence can help solve tech’s diversity issue by creating bias-free resume review processes and other systems.

Amazon.com Inc. looks to be ramping up its Amazon Go store openings, launching its third store in Seattle a week after opening the second. The newest cashierless store (300 Boren Ave. N.) is at the corner of Boren and Thomas in the Troy Block of Amazon’s South Lake Union headquarters campus in Seattle. The third store is the largest, coming in at 2,100 square feet, according to the Seattle Times. Amazon opened the first of its grab-and-go convenience stores to employee testers in 2016 and allowed…

Disneyland will serve up alcoholic drinks at its new cantina when the Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge expansion opens next year. This will be the first time the park has sold alcoholic beverages to general visitors since it opened in 1955. It has served alcohol to members of Club 33, a private dinner club at Disneyland’s New Orleans Square. Nearby California Adventure Park, which opened in 2001, sells beer, wine and mixed drinks at some of its restaurants, while in 2012, alcoholic drinks were sold…