Bloomberg T-Mobile US Inc. and its German owners are advancing towards a long-awaited telecommunications union that would value merger partner Sprint Corp. at about $24 billion, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Under the terms being discussed, T-Mobile backer Deutsche Telekom AG would receive a 42 percent stake and 69 percent voting interest in the combined company, said ...

Bloomberg Xerox Corp.’s plan to sell itself to Japanese rival Fujifilm Holding Corp. was temporarily blocked by a New York judge who determined the chief executive officer behind the deal was trying to preserve his own job. Investor Darwin Deason sued to block the transaction, accusing CEO Jeffrey Jacobson of acting without authorisation to strike a deal with Fujifilm that ...

Bloomberg Johnson & Johnson persuaded an appeals court to throw out a $151 million award against the company over its Pinnacle artificial hips in a ruling that will affect thousands of lawsuits over the devices. A judge’s error in allowing hip recipients’ lawyers to use “highly prejudicial” evidence about bribes paid by officials of J&J units in their 2016 case ...