Bloomberg Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp. and Toyota Motor Corp. are betting on a future when consumers and businesses will order up their transportation needs on demand, forming a new venture that will develop and deploy ride-hailing and self-driving car technologies. Monet Technologies Corp. will initially introduce ride-hailing services for Japanese public agencies and private companies, followed by a rollout of ...

Bloomberg Secretary of State Michael Pompeo arrived on Saturday in Japan on a trip that will take him to North Korea, as US disarmament demands are increasingly undermined by calls for sanctions relief and President Donald Trump’s eagerness for a second summit with Kim Jong-un. Pompeo will spend less than a day on the ground in Pyongyang on Sunday meeting ...

Bloomberg The chances of getting a Brexit deal have increased over the past few days, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker told Austrian newspapers in an interview released on Saturday. “I assume that we’ll find an agreement about the terms of the exit treaty,” Juncker in the interview with daily newspapers Der Standard and Kurier, and weekly Falter. “We also need ...