Bloomberg America’s working class is falling further behind. The rich-poor gap — the difference in annual income between households in the top 20 percent and those in the bottom 20 percent — ballooned by $29,200 to $189,600 between 2010 and 2015, based on Bloomberg calculations using US Census Bureau data. Computers and robots are taking over many types of …

  Bloomberg Daimler AG plans to ratchet up development spending throughout the year as the inventor of the automobile scrambles to keep pace with a disruptive shift to electric, self-driving vehicles. Research-and-development expenses jumped 24 percent to 2.1 billion euros ($2.3 billion) in the first quarter and will continue to rise in the course of 2017, the Stuttgart, Germany-based company …

  Bloomberg Emma Walmsley pledged to spur growth at GlaxoSmithKline Plc’s pharmaceutical unit less than a month after taking over as chief executive officer of the UK’s largest drugmaker. “We are a science-based company,” Walmsley, who had been head of Glaxo’s consumer products division before her appointment in September, told reporters on Wednesday. “Our focus has got to be around …