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Bloomberg Singapore, among the world’s most expensive places to own a vehicle, will stop increasing the total number of cars on its roads next year. The government will cut the annual growth rate for cars and motorcycles to zero from 0.25 percent starting in February, the transport regulator said. “In view of land constraints and competing needs, there is limited ...

Bloomberg Haier Electronics Group Co. opened its first office in Israel this week, expanding its search for smart home technologies. “The decision to open an innovation center is fully aligned with Haier’s strategy: the world is our lab,” said Mr. Wang Ye, vice president and general manager of the Advanced Innovation Center in Haier’s appliance group. Not only will the ...

­­­­­­­­­­­Bloomberg HelloFresh, the meal-kit startup backed by Rocket Internet SE, is targeting a market valuation of as much as 1.5 billion euros ($1.8 billion) in an initial public offering this week, the company said in a statement. The company, which sells meal kits in 10 markets and remains unprofitable, set a price range of 9 to 11.50 euros a share. ...

Bloomberg Cisco Systems Inc. agreed to buy BroadSoft Inc. for about $1.9 billion to expand further into software and cloud services. The $55-a-share cash offer announced on Monday is a 28 percent premium over BroadSoft’s closing price on August 29, a day before Reuters reported that the Gaithersburg, Maryland-based company was working with bankers to pursue a possible sale. The ...

Bloomberg President Emmanuel Macron’s government wants to change French culture to make the population less instinctively hostile to private enterprise. “I’m struck by the difference of the reality of life in companies and the way they are perceived in public discourse—especially by politicians,” Stanislas Guerini, a lawmaker in Macron’s Republic En Marche party, said. “There is often a black and ...

Bloomberg Drivers of the most polluting diesel vehicles will pay a charge to enter central London starting from Monday in the latest attempt by the city’s mayor to crack down on air pollution. The 10-pound ($13) T-Charge targets older, more polluting vehicles that are causing London to have some of the worst air in Europe. Almost 8 million people live ...

Bloomberg The UK government is boosting its push to promote electric and driverless cars with a draft law requiring gasoline retailers across the country to install more charging points. The provisions are included in the Automated and Electric Vehicles Bill, which is scheduled to be debated in Parliament for the first time on Monday after being published last week. It’s ...

Bloomberg The way Tina Huang tells it, the path to her resignation from Twitter Inc. was a Kafkaesque experience. She said she was denied a promotion, led to believe her coding skills were inferior, asked to take a leave of absence, and scolded for taking that leave. Two years ago, she sued, contending that the company systematically thwarts the advancement ...

Bloomberg As money rushes into China’s fledgling biotechnology sector, Eli Lilly & Co. and other foreign drugmakers are scaling back. Eli Lilly, along with GlaxoSmithKline Plc, announced plans the past few months to cut research teams in China, after Novartis AG shuttered a biotech research unit there a year ago. “This closure comes after careful study and consideration, and is ...

Bloomberg The US has been disappointed this year at China’s lack of progress in pursuing market-oriented reforms, said a senior administration official, ratcheting up the pressure on the world’s second-largest economy ahead of President Donald Trump’s visit there next month. While China made progress in previous decades toward market pricing and reducing the number of state-owned enterprises, the US is ...