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Morgan Stanley plans sale of ‘Walkie Talkie’ tower stake

  Bloomberg Morgan Stanley’s real estate investing unit plans to sell its stake of almost 12 percent in the London skyscraper known as the Walkie Talkie, according to three people familiar with the plan. China Investment Corp., which owns a portion of the 20 Fenchurch Street building, is considering bidding for the stake, which is valued at about 120 million ...

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Connecting through ‘wormhole’

  Bloomberg Forget email, Slack and the humble telephone. When workers at one Australian company want to talk to colleagues in China, they just turn their heads and look down the “wormhole”. Large screens at the end of each row of desks offer a digital window between offices in Melbourne and Xi’an—7,000 kilometers apart—at real-estate company REA Group Ltd. The ...

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Line outlines new AI strategy

  Bloomberg Line Corp. outlined an ambitious artificial-intelligence strategy that promises to transform Japan’s most popular messaging service while pitting it against Google, Facebook Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. The company is launching a suite of AI software tools to power an online digital assistant capable of conversing in Japanese and Korean, Line said at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. ...

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