Bloomberg Walt Disney Co. is warning New York-area customers of Altice USA cable systems that they will lose ESPN, ABC and the Disney Channel if the companies fail to reach a new programming agreement. The world’s largest entertainment company plans to air warnings and run messages across viewers’ screens in the affected markets. Altice, which took over pay-TV systems owned …

Bloomberg More home buyers are resorting to mortgages to purchase London’s most expensive houses and apartments as rising prices drag them into higher tax brackets. Seventy-four percent of homes costing 1 million pounds ($1.4 million) or more in the UK capital were bought with a mortgage in the three months through July, up from 65 percent a year earlier, according …

Bloomberg Instagram’s most beloved cookie dough confectioner is facing a proposed class action alleging the not-baked goods cause food-borne illness. Cookie Dō, which boasts over 180,000 followers on the social media destination, sells cookie dough made from pasteurized egg product and heat-treated flour. “That means NO chance of food-borne illness or the risk that comes along with eating raw flour …