Note 7 fires cause to be announcedSEOUL, South Korea — Samsung Electronics said today it will announce on Jan. 23 the reason why its Galaxy Note 7 smart phones overheated and caught fire.The announcement will be livestreamed in Chinese, English and Korean on its websites. Samsung’s mobile president will give details of the probe.The Galaxy Note 7 was a fiasco for the world’s largest smart phone maker. Samsung recalled and eventually discontinued it after numerous reports of it overheating and bursting into flames.Initially, Samsung said it found a small error in the manufacturing process for some of the batteries in the phones was to blame.The recall cost Samsung at least $5 billion.

Over 652K vehicles being recalledDETROIT — Thirteen automakers are recalling more than 652,000 vehicles in the U.S. in the latest round of dangerous Takata air bag inflator recalls.Automakers with recalls posted Thursday are Audi, Nissan, Jaguar-Land Rover, Subaru, Daimler Vans, Tesla, Mitsubishi, BMW, Ferrari, Mercedes, Mazda, McLaren and Karma. All the recalls are to replace front passenger inflators.Sixteen people have died worldwide and more than 180 have been hurt due to the problem.

Pizza Hut plans to hire 11,000NEW YORK — Pizza Hut is gearing up for the Super Bowl by hiring 11,000 people in the U.S. to cook up its pies, deliver them to hungry customers or manage its restaurants.The Super Bowl is the busiest day of the year for Pizza Hut, and it expects to sell more than 2 million pizzas during the game.It plans to fill as many of the positions as possible before the Super Bowl.

U.S. ends probe of Tesla fatal crashWASHINGTON — Tesla Motors Inc. won’t face a recall or fine as a result of a fatal crash involving its Autopilot system, but U.S. safety regulators are warning auto manufacturers and drivers not to treat semiautonomous cars as if they were fully self-driving.The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Thursday it found that the system had no safety defects at the time of the May 7, 2016, crash in Florida, and that it was primarily designed to prevent rear-end collisions rather than other crash scenarios.