International News

Bloomberg New York state is opening an investigation into a data breach at Capital One Financial Corp that involves the personal information of 100 million consumers. The breach allowed for illegal access to names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, addresses and other highly sensitive personal information, New York Attorney General Letitia James said in a statement.

Bloomberg Surescripts, a company that enables electronic prescribing of drugs, terminated its contract with a vendor that it says improperly requested access to patients’ medication histories to give to Amazon.com’s PillPack subsidiary. Surescripts, which is partially owned by two of the largest pharmacy-benefit managers, said in a statement it has alerted the FBI and stopped its vendor, ReMy Health, from ...

Bloomberg SoftBank Group Corp will invest $2 billion in Indonesia through ride-hailing giant Grab over the next five years and plans to explore investment opportunities in the country’s electric battery and renewable energy sectors. The Japanese conglomerate, which announced plans last week to raise a total of $108 billion for its second Vision Fund, will also increase its investment in ...

Bloomberg With no let-up apparent in global and regional trade tensions, Singapore’s business community has slashed its expectations for the near-term economic outlook. “Because we are hugely export-dependent, because of the slowing down in the economy, because of tension, because of loss of business confidence — we need to adjust” growth expectations, Ho Meng Kit, CEO of the Singapore Business ...

Bloomberg India’s growing affluence is seeing its population turn more carnivorous, leading the country with the world’s highest number of vegetarians to import more corn for chicken feed than ever before. Corn purchases by Asia’s second-biggest grower are set to climb to a record 1 million tons in the year starting in November, said Jaison John, general manager for procurement ...

Bloomberg China Evergrande Group may be a long way from challenging Tesla Inc, but it’s at least thinking about how customers can charge their electric cars more cheaply. The property developer has established a joint venture with State Grid Corp of China to co-develop smart car-charging technology, according to a statement on Evergrande’s website. In China, electric-vehicle owners pay about ...

Bloomberg Japan’s unusually long and cool rainy season dampened demand for apparel, furniture and other goods, with some retailers already reporting steep drops in merchandise sales. Shimamura Co, a chain of affordable clothing shops, reported that same-store sales through July 20 fell 18 percent from a year earlier. Many of Shimamura’s customers reach the company’s 1,433 locations in Japan via ...

Bloomberg Deutsche Telekom AG is the closest it’s ever been to securing the US wireless mega-merger that Chief Executive Officer Tim Hoettges has attempted to clinch three times. The German phone company rose the most in almost 10 months on Monday after clearing a major hurdle for the $26.5 billion takeover of Sprint Corp by its T-Mobile US Inc unit ...

Bloomberg Neither the European Union nor Britain is ready for a no-deal Brexit on October 31, according to a study of contingency plans by the UK’s biggest business lobby group. “There are no areas of relevance to the economy where the UK, EU and the business community are all prepared well enough for no deal,” the Confederation of British Industry ...

Bloomberg Facebook Inc’s “Like” button makes third-party websites responsible for processing people’s data under the European Union’s privacy rules, according to the EU’s top court. The EU Court of Justice weighed in on a dispute after an online fashion retailer was accused of violating EU law by embedding a Like plugin, which a consumer association said allowed the social media ...