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Bloomberg Oyo Hotels, an Indian startup for booking reliable rooms in the country’s chaotic lodging market, is raising $1 billion to fund expansion into China and other global regions. Existing investors including SoftBank Vision Fund, Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners have put in $800 million, with commitments for another $200 million, the company said. About $600 million of the ...

Bloomberg Buy the businesses that hold the real-estate assets rather than the ones that sell them. That’s the message from a growing number of analysts in Singapore who say REITs, or real estate investment trusts, are a better bet than developers in light of the island’s recent cooling measures. For much of 2017 and the first half of this year, ...

Bloomberg North Korea signalled it wants investments from South Korean companies to help modernise the secluded country, said a top executive in the business delegation that visited Pyongyang last week. North Korea wants to have economic cooperation and technical assistance from the South, Sohn Kyung-shik, the 79-year-old co-chairman of CJ Group and the head of the Korea Employers Federation, told ...

Bloomberg The founders of Instagram are leaving Facebook Inc. after growing tensions with Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg over the direction of the photo-sharing app, people familiar with the matter said. The stock dropped 2 percent in pre-market trading on Tuesday. Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, who have been at the company since Instagram’s acquisition by Facebook in 2012, had ...

Bloomberg Johnson & Johnson’s latest trial over claims that its baby powder causes cancer ended in a stalemate when jurors couldn’t agree on a verdict. A state judge in Pasadena, California, declared a mistrial after jurors deadlocked on Carolyn Weirick’s request for at least $25 million in damages over her mesothelioma, a cancer linked to asbestos exposure. Weirick said she ...

Bloomberg Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai said he will meet with lawmakers on Capitol Hill this week as his company and other internet giants face increasing scrutiny from conservatives who allege that their views are being censored online. “I look forward to meeting with members on both sides of the aisle, answering a wide range of questions, and explaining ...

Bloomberg In Rupert Murdoch’s six decades of media dealmaking, UK broadcaster Sky Plc stands out as the one that got away. The octogenarian may still have the last laugh. While Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox Inc. lost out to Comcast Corp. in a weekend auction of the UK pay-TV company he launched almost three decades ago, the global media magnate now ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The UAE will host the Interfaith Alliance Forum in the nation’s capital, Abu Dhabi on November 19-20, under the auspices of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces. The announcement came during a press conference held at the Ministry of Interior ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The UAE-Saudi non-oil trade has grown 1230 percent since the establishment of the GCC Customs Union in 2003 until H1 2018, according the statistics of the UAE Federal Customs Authority (FCA). The total non-oil intra-trade between the two countries amounted to AED720 billion ($196 billion) during the monitored period, with total UAE imports from the Kingdom ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Al Dahra has announced that following its acquisition of Agricost and Braila Island, the largest consolidated farm in Europe, the company plans on investing an additional $500 million in Romania over the coming five years, in various sectors. This announcement coincides with a visit to Romania by a delegation comprising the executive leadership team from Al ...