Jeff Bezos is reportedly closing in on surpassing another major milestone. Amazon’s Prime program — which has boasted impressive growth in recent years — should finally be in more than 50 percent of American homes before the year is over, Cowen & Co. has predicted. According to the firm’s monthly …

Getty Images U.S. Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV) (C) is surround by members of the media as he is on his way to view the details of a new health care bill July 13, 2017 at the Capitol in Washington, DC. A frequent Nevada political candidate will challenge the state’s vulnerable …

Ethan Miller | Getty Images Reed Hastings, Netflix CEO Netflix is one of the market’s best performing stocks and one Wall Street firm says its shares will continue to surge due to more impressive growth in foreign markets. Piper Jaffray told its clients the company’s international subscriber base will nearly …

Photo Arcade Fire’s “Everything Now” is the band’s third straight album to open at No. 1. Credit Rob Grabowski/Invision, via Associated Press When Arcade Fire first hit No. 1 on the Billboard album, with “The Suburbs” in 2010, it was a big deal, marking the band’s ascension from indie-rock darlings …

Photo Jimmy Kimmel said that he realized that President Trump was hard at work. “Just yesterday, he brokered a peace deal between the groundskeeper at the golf course and some gophers,” he said. Credit ABC Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown that lets you sleep — and lets …

In that interview, Mr. Nakajima recalled Godzilla’s creator, Eiji Tsuburaya, struggling amid Japan’s postwar shortages and rationing to find enough rubber and latex to construct the costume. “You don’t learn this from a textbook but by doing,” Mr. Nakajima said of those early days. “There is no chance to learn …

A pedestrian walks past an advertisement for McDonald’s in Shenzhen, China, on August 4, 2014. Fast-food giant McDonald’s plans to accelerate its expansion in China increasing the number of restaurants in the country by 2,000 by the end of 2022, to a total of 4,500 nationwide. The chain hopes the …

“Someone is trying to make a fortune off these important historical events,” Ye Daying, a grandson of Ye Ting, a Communist military commander, wrote on Weibo, a microblogging site. Photo Since its debut, the film has taken in just over $51 million. That success probably has much to do with …

After the Department of Education criticized the debt loads in January, the institute halted admissions for a year — and then, last month, extended the freeze to three years. Some students and alumni worry that the resulting notoriety will sully the institute’s name and the value of their degrees. In …

Joby Sessions | Maximum PC Magazine | Getty Images Detail of a Razer gaming mouse, taken on March 2, 2016. Besides moving Razer beyond “just making nuts and bolts,” Koh also noted it wasn’t obvious to others in the business community at the time just how large the gaming industry …