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  Bloomberg Arctic chill and heavy snowfall left tens of thousands of households in southeastern Europe without electricity as rivers froze over, cables failed and power stations had unplanned outages. From Greece to Hungary, hydroelectric production plummeted as temperatures fell as low as minus 20 degrees Celsius (minus 4 Fahrenheit) and parts of the Danube river were almost entirely covered ...

  Bloomberg The egg-shaped flying river taxi is gaining support, as SeaBubbles seeks to close its third funding round in under a year and aims to firm up interest from potential customers, including the city of Paris and companies in the San Francisco Bay. To build the first battery-powered bubble-shaped ships that hover a few inches above the water and ...

  Bloomberg Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., the main assembler of Apple Inc.’s iPhones, recorded its first annual revenue decline after the global smartphone market went through its worst year on record. The company, also known as Foxconn, posted a 2.8 percent fall in 2016 sales to NT$4.36 trillion ($136.5 billion), it said in a filing to Taiwan’s stock exchange, ...

  Bloomberg Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. will expand its footprint in the US oncology market with the $4.66 billion purchase of Ariad Pharmaceuticals Inc., adding one potential blockbuster in lung cancer and another already on-the-market therapy. Takeda will pay $24 a share for Ariad, the companies said in a statement, 75 percent more than its Friday close of $13.74. The deal ...

  Bloomberg Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co., Itochu Corp. and Chinese builders are among companies that may bid for a $5 billion contract to build a network of roads and a suspension bridge across Turkey’s Dardanelles waterway, according to people familiar with the matter. At least five bidding groups may compete in the January 26 auction, the people said, asking ...

  Bloomberg Yahoo! Inc. Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer is among six directors who plan to leave the board of the investment company that will be left after the closing of the proposed sale of Yahoo’s main internet properties to Verizon Communications Inc. The new company, a shareholder in Alibaba Group Holding Inc. and Yahoo! Japan, will change its name ...

  Bloomberg Toyota Motor Corp., whose investments in Mexico have drawn criticism from US President-elect Donald Trump, said it plans to invest $10 billion in the US over the next five years, maintaining the pace of spending it established during the last half decade. Jim Lentz, Toyota’s chief executive officer for North America, outlined the company’s intentions during an interview ...

  Bloomberg Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc., the embattled Canadian drugmaker, agreed to sell about $2.1 billion in assets to get cash to streamline its businesses and begin easing its debt burden. L’Oreal SA will pay Valeant $1.3 billion for three skin-care brands, the Paris-based company on Tuesday said in a statement. Earlier in the day, Valeant said it would sell ...

  Bloomberg Indian real-estate websites PropTiger.com and Housing.com are merging to create the country’s top portal for residential listings and property services, as Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. boosts its investment in the growing sector while Masayoshi Son’s SoftBank Group Corp. scales back. REA Group Ltd., an Australian real-estate company controlled by News Corp., is putting $50 million into the new ...

  Bloomberg China’s producer price index rose at the fastest pace in more than five years in December as the factory to the world swings from being a drag on global inflation to another potential force pushing prices higher. PPI jumped 5.5 percent last month from a year earlier, compared to the median estimate of 4.6 percent in a Bloomberg ...