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Didi halts Hitch service after 2nd customer killed

Bloomberg Didi Chuxing said it will suspend a carpool service and has removed two executives after a second female customer in three months was allegedly killed by a driver in China. The ride-hailing app company said in an emailed statement on Sunday that it will halt its Hitch service starting on Monday and reevaluate the carpool operation’s business model. Didi ...

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How Nestle’s Japan experiment could create a $1bn business

Bloomberg Nestle SA’s unit in Japan expects a fledgling business selling nutritional drinks and supplements to aging consumers to grow into a nearly $1 billion business within a decade as the food giant becomes the latest to employ genetics to market food. The world’s biggest food company has seen increasing demand for a Japanese subscription program for nutrition that can ...

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Airbus A320 engine fix won’t come for months: Lufthansa

Bloomberg Engine glitches that have disrupted Airbus SE A320neo jet operations around the world may take at least three more months to resolve amid a scarcity of upgraded turbines, according to comments from one of the planemaker’s biggest customers, Deutsche Lufthansa. Fixes for the snags afflicting the geared turbofan, or GTF, powerplant made by United Technologies Corp.’s Pratt & Whitney ...

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