Bloomberg The UK Treasury is planning new measures to encourage investment in machinery and factories to help revive Britain’s flagging productivity, two officials familiar with the matter said. Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond may use the budget on October 29 to announce the measures, with tax breaks under active consideration, according to the officials, who declined to be named ...

Bloomberg US authorities have opened investigations into whether shares in Broadcom Inc. and CA Technologies Inc. were the target of a stock-manipulation scheme, according to people familiar with the matter. The inquires are related to Broadcom’s announcement that lawmakers were given what purported to be a US Defense Department assessment of national-security concerns surrounding Broadcom’s planned purchase of CA. That ...

Bloomberg Facebook Inc. said intimate information, including search results, recent locations and hometowns, were stolen from 14 million users by attackers in a major hack of the social network disclosed two weeks ago. The company said the cyber-attack, one of the worst to hit Facebook, affected 30 million people rather than about 50 million the company first reported September 28. ...