Bloomberg Facebook Inc knew in early 2015 that it misled advertisers about the average time users spent viewing online video clips — and then lied about it, according to a lawsuit. The owner of the world’s largest social network acknowledged in September 2016 that it had inflated the metric for marketers, and said it fixed its calculations. Crowd Siren, the ...

Bloomberg Europe’s car lobby said a no-deal Brexit would threaten the very business model of companies operating in the UK and on the continent, urging negotiators to do everything in their power to avert a worst-case scenario on the eve of a summit in Brussels. Carmakers and suppliers’ steps to prepare for the event of a disorderly withdrawal from the ...

Bloomberg UK inflation slowed more than expected in September, dragged lower by the cost of food and transport fares. Annual consumer-price growth dip-ped to 2.4 percent from 2.7 percent in August, the Office for National Statistics said on Wednesday. The rate was lower than the median 2.6 percent forecast in a Bloomberg survey. Downward pressure came mainly from food prices, ...