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Bloomberg Ola, India’s biggest ride-hailing startup, is heading down under. It’s the overseas debut for Ola, which will start inviting drivers in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth to sign up, it said. Ola will be competing with Uber Technologies in Australia. The two companies have been going head-to-head in India’s $10-billion ride-hailing market where the ramshackle public transportation systems in cities ...

Bloomberg Three quarters of companies surveyed by the American Chamber of Commerce in China say they feel unwelcome, reflecting perceptions foreign firms aren’t treated equally to domestic competitors. The disparity in some cases comes from uneven enforcement of the law, which some firms say has become a version of protectionism, according to a survey. Protectionism is one of the top ...

Bloomberg SAP SE Chief Executive Officer Bill McDermott has backed US President Donald Trump’s tax plan, and revealed a $2.4 billion deal for Callidus Software Inc., its biggest acquisition in more than three years. SAP said it will pay $36 a share for Dublin, California-based Callidus, known as CallidusCloud, to give Europe’s biggest software company access to new sales analytic ...

Bloomberg Varian Medical Systems Inc. agreed to buy Australia’s Sirtex Medical Ltd. for about $1.3 billion in a bid by the US company to add radiation medicine to its portfolio for cancer treatments. Sirtex investors will receive A$28 in cash for each share, Palo-Alto, California-based Varian said in a statement. That’s 49 percent higher than the stock’s latest closing price ...

Bloomberg Chinese billionaire Wang Jianlin’s Dalian Wanda Group Co. has put its last two overseas property developments up for sale, according to people familiar with the matter, in the latest unwinding of a decade-long overseas buying spree that put it in the cross-hairs of Chinese regulators. Wanda is seeking buyers for a hotel, office and apartment complex in Chicago and ...

Bloomberg India cannot rule out a pause in its fiscal consolidation plan in the year through March, a key government adviser said, setting the government’s tone ahead of Thursday’s budget. “Setting overly ambitious targets for consolidation—especially in a pre-election year—based on optimistic forecasts that carry a high risk of not being realised will not garner credibility,” Chief Economic Adviser Arvind ...

Bloomberg Tencent Holdings Ltd. is leading the acquisition of 14 percent of billionaire Wang Jianlin’s Wanda Commercial Properties Co. for $5.4 billion, a deal that will begin the target company’s retreat from real estate development. Online mall JD.com Inc., Sunac China Holdings Ltd. and Suning Commerce Group Co.—a retailer backed by e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.— will also take ...

Bloomberg The sun never sets on China’s trade and infrastructure ambitions. With the addition of the Arctic and Latin America, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s signature Belt and Road Initiative has become truly global. Only the US, its neighbour Canada and ally Japan have yet to be included in the plan, which seeks to build or upgrade a network of highways, ...

Bloomberg Google faced a Monday deadline to defend changes to its shopping service that left old foes clamoring for a new wave of European Union antitrust fines. Still smarting from 2017’s record 2.4 billion euro ($3 billion) penalty, Google must submit the first report to the EU on how it has met a strict demand from regulators to give smaller ...

Bloomberg Sanofi agreed to buy Belgium’s Ablynx NV for $4.8 billion, outbidding rival Novo Nordisk A/S to gain a potential blockbuster for a rare blood clotting disease. Paris-based Sanofi will pay 45 euros a share in cash for all outstanding shares of Ablynx, it said. The price is 48 percent above Novo’s unsolicited offer of as much as 30.50 euros ...