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Bloomberg Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has announced a new programme of investment days for London startups, as he tries to maintain the UK’s position as a European hub for young tech companies. The UK national trade body for early stage companies will help run 20 investment days in London over the next four years, providing coaching and connections to ...

Bloomberg The fact that US President Donald Trump’s Twitter account was deactivated by a rogue employee has raised questions about how much access and control Twitter Inc.’s workforce has over an individual user’s account. Trump’s personal page was shut down for about 11 minutes on Thursday evening by a customer support employee who was leaving the company. Though Twitter has ...

Bloomberg With Bank of England policy makers’ voting for a first interest-rate increase in a decade, Wm Morrison Supermarkets Plc is signalling that the UK’s Brexit-induced jump in food prices is already easing. “The rate of inflation fell as we went through the third quarter,” Trevor Strain, chief financial officer of the UK’s fourth-largest grocer, said. “In our business we ...

Bloomberg The $1,000 price tag on Apple Inc.’s new iPhone X didn’t deter throngs of enthusiasts around the world who waited—sometimes overnight—in long lines with no guarantee they would walk out of the store with one of the coveted devices. At Apple’s flagship Fifth Avenue store in Manhattan, the line coiled up and down several times along 58th Street and ...

Bloomberg China Literature Ltd., the online reading unit helping Tencent Holdings Ltd. build an entertainment empire, raised $1.1 billion alongside existing investors in its Hong Kong initial public offering, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The first-time share sale priced at the very top of a marketed range, the people said, asking not to be identified because the ...

Bloomberg SouChe.com, a Chinese car trading site, raised $335 million in a funding round led by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. as it expands in auto-financing and prepares for a potential US IPO. Alibaba will become the biggest backer of the site and integrate parts of the business with its own e-commerce services. Warburg Pincus, Primavera Capital and CMB International also ...

Bloomberg There’s another energy drink pouring out massive wealth in Thailand. Sathien Setthasit, chairman and chief executive officer of Red Bull challenger Carabao Group Pcl, has become a billionaire after the company’s shares rose 38 percent this year and lifted his net worth to $1.1 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The surge has also boosted the fortunes of ...

Bloomberg Grab, Southeast Asia’s largest ride-hailing app, is kicking off a new digital wallet service in Singapore as it stakes a claim to the region’s burgeoning mobile payments sector. Grab will enable its 4 million users in the city-state to scan a quick response, or QR, code to pay for local dishes such as chicken rice and prawn noodles at ...

Bloomberg The UK signalled it’s preparing to compromise over money in its stand-off with the EU, as a new round of Brexit talks offered the chance to break the deadlock. The deal on the divorce terms will probably be better for the remaining 27 EU countries than for Britain on the financial settlement, Brexit Secretary David Davis said. The first ...

Bloomberg UK manufacturing strengthened in October and measures of prices and capacity indicated an inflationary buildup within the industry. IHS Markit said costs rose and firms increased selling prices at the fastest pace in six months. A measure of hiring jumped to the highest in more than three years and there were “capacity pressures” in the supply of raw materials, ...