Bloomberg Google’s top executive said the search giant would welcome higher taxes. Uber Technologies Inc.’s new CEO said it must be more accommodating with regulators. Salesforce.com Inc.’s veteran leader Marc Benioff said Silicon Valley has been arrogant and compared Facebook to the tobacco industry. At the World Economic Forum in Davos this week, technology executives struck a conciliatory note in ...

Bloomberg Germany’s most powerful union IG Metall failed to reach a labour deal for some 3.9 million workers in Europe’s largest economy, setting the stage for potentially disruptive 24-hour strikes at industrial giants from Siemens AG to Daimler AG. Talks with IG Metall broke off with no deal after 16 hours of negotiations, employer organisation Suedwestmetall said. The union, which ...

Bloomberg Uber Technologies Inc., whose losses have piled up in the quest for growth around the world, will be profitable in three years as its ride-hailing business matures and the company reaps the rewards from investments in areas such as autonomous vehicles, said Chief Executive Officer Dara Khosrowshahi. Bending the company’s financial trajectory out of the red would be a ...