Bloomberg Verizon Communications Inc. suffered its worst quarter of subscriber growth in more than six years amid intensified price competition from smaller rivals, adding pressure on the company’s media and advertising ventures to take up the slack for a rapidly maturing wireless business. The nation’s largest wireless carrier signed up 442,000 total subscribers in the third quarter, falling far ...

  Paris / AFP European sugar producers will target export markets in addition to looking for new domestic customers when the EU lifts quotas next year and fully embraces free-market farm policies, officials and analysts say. However, some analysts believe exports will face tough competition in attractive Middle East and North African markets while some producers, especially in Italy, fear ...

  Bloomberg Monsanto Co. talked to three other companies about potential transactions in the months leading up to its agreement to be acquired by Bayer AG for $65.7 billion, the largest ever agricultural takeover. Details of the talks were revealed in the seed company’s proxy statement filed Wednesday. While talks with Germany’s BASF SE about a possible combination of their ...