Bloomberg Nomura Holdings Inc.’s second-quarter profit jumped 31 percent, beating analysts’ estimates as a surge in trading income made up for a slump in brokerage commissions and investment banking. Net income climbed to 61.2 billion yen ($585 million) in the three months ended Sept. 30 from 46.6 billion yen a year earlier, Japan’s largest securities firm said in a …

  NEW YORK / AP Sale or no sale, Twitter users are bound to see changes as the beleaguered communications service tries to broaden its appeal to more people and advertisers. A new owner could clean up Twitter and curb some of the nastiness that’s become synonymous with it. Or perhaps a new owner would just show more ads. Or …

  Bloomberg Apple Inc. announced that its anticipated AirPods, a pair of wireless headphones, will no longer ship this month as planned. The AirPods were introduced in September alongside the iPhone 7, which was designed without a standard headphone jack. “We don’t believe in shipping a product before it’s ready, and we need a little more time before AirPods are …