Bloomberg Daimler AG, Siemens AG and other German manufacturers are under pressure to make concessions to employees as more disruptive walkouts loom in a contract dispute over wages and work hours. At talks, the IG Metall union is pushing employers to raise pay 6 percent and subsidise wages for workers reducing hours to care for kids or older family members. ...

Bloomberg Google is willing to pay more tax globally, Sundar Pichai, the CEO of the largest business unit of Alphabet Inc., said on Wednesday at the WEF in Davos, Switzerland. “We are happy to pay more tax, whatever the world agrees to,” Pichai said. But he said the question was where Google should pay it. Critics have accused large US ...

Bloomberg Billionaires, world leaders and investors are gathered in Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting to hobnob and discuss topics ranging from the global economy and harassment, to the risks and opportunities of artificial intelligence. Not to mention hear a speech by US President Donald Trump. The second day at Davos saw German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French ...