Bloomberg Shortly after taking over Uber Technologies Inc. in September, Dara Khosrowshahi told employees to brace for a painful six months. US officials are looking into possible bribes, illicit software, questionable pricing schemes and theft of a competitor’s intellectual property. The very attributes that, for years, set the company on a rocket-ship trajectory—a tendency to ignore rules, to compete with …

Bloomberg The US ambassador to Turkey said that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is engaged in talks to try and resolve a major diplomatic break between the two NATO allies, sparking a rally in the Turkish lira even as the envoy said he couldn’t predict the outcome of those efforts. Speaking to reporters at his residence in Ankara, Ambassador John …

Bloomberg Kenya is bracing for street protests as the East African nation awaits the electoral commission’s response to opposition leader Raila Odinga’s decision to withdraw from a presidential vote rerun that’s threatening a constitutional crisis. Opposition supporters gathered on Wednesday in the capital, Nairobi, and in the western city of Kisumu to join demonstrations called to protest what Odinga said …