Veggie dogs are finally coming to Nathan’s Famous. Beginning Monday, the century-old frankfurter emporium will begin serving meatless hot dogs at 13 eateries across the New York metro area, including at its famous Coney Island flagship.  Nathan’s unveiled its plans for the veggie dogs in April when it announced a partnership with Meatless Farms, which...Read More

Customers are noshing on free samples in the grocery aisle again — albeit with more pandemic protections than before. Two weeks ago, grocery chain Stew Leonard’s began handing out bite-sized samples of its homemade cheesecake stuffed into tiny paper cups — but only after building 28 plexiglass booths to keep employees at a safe distance...Read More

United Airlines said Thursday it will spend $3 billion to buy 15 supersonic, zero-emissions jetliners from aviation startup Boom Supersonic. The jet maker says its “Overture” model jets will fly at double the speed of today’s fastest airliners, carrying up to 88 travelers each from New York to London in 3.5 hours and San Francisco...Read More

Bristol-Myers Squibb was sued for $6.4 billion on Thursday for allegedly delaying its Breyanzi cancer drug to avoid payments to shareholders of the former Celgene, which the drugmaker bought in 2019. According to a complaint in Manhattan federal court, Bristol-Myers failed to use contractually required “diligent efforts” to win US Food and Drug Administration approval for...Read More

Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling’s stealth energy investment venture has launched, two people familiar with the matter said this week, staffed with former McKinsey & Co. consultants like himself and offering a technology edge to oil and gas returns. Skilling was convicted of securities fraud and insider trading in connection with manipulating financial reports ahead of the...Read More

Hometown International — the New Jersey company valued at more than $100 million on the stock market despite running just a single deli — is in fact a shell company that’s part of a complex, international reverse-merger plan, according to a report. Peter Coker Jr., the Asia-based chairman and recently appointed CEO of Hometown, approached a Hong...Read More

Kraken, a cryptocurrency exchange with a reported $20 billion valuation, is launching a new trading app — but don’t expect digital confetti showers when you use it to buy Bitcoin. The San Francisco-based crypto platform already has a “Kraken Pro” app targeted at professional investors, but its newest product is a bet it can bring...Read More

Twitter on Thursday said it will roll out a new subscription service — initially in Australia and Canada — which will let paying users edit their tweets before posting and change the color theme of their app. Details of the feature, called Twitter Blue, were first uncovered last month by software engineer Jane Manchun Wong,...Read More

Amazon will start requiring law enforcement to publicly request videos captured by its Ring doorbell security system amid growing criticism of its video-sharing agreements with police departments. In a blog post on Thursday, Amazon’s Ring unit said police and fire departments will be required to request Ring’s home surveillance videos via public posts on its...Read More

The head of unprofitable data analytics company Palantir has become one of the highest-paid executives in history, raking in more than $1.1 billion in total compensation last year. Peter Thiel-founded Palantir — which conducts secretive data-processing work for US government agencies and corporate clients like Morgan Stanley and Airbus — paid CEO Alex Karp $798...Read More