Bloomberg McDonald’s Japan took a series of hits starting in 2014 that threatened to crack its Golden Arches: a supplier was selling expired chicken, a human tooth was found in french fries and a child was injured by a plastic shard inside a sundae. Sales plummeted to their lowest since the company went public in 2001, and the chain closed ...

Bloomberg Tata Group’s feud with one of India’s richest families deepened after the country’s biggest conglomerate moved to change its holding company’s legal status to one that would restrict the Mistry family’s ability to sell its stake to external investors. Shareholders of the closely held company, Tata Sons Ltd., are scheduled to vote September 21 on changing its registration to ...

Bloomberg To see the future of artificial intelligence, look East, said venture capitalist Jim Breyer. “China right now represents about half of the most interesting AI investment opportunities in the world,” Breyer said at the CNBC Institutional Investor Delivering Alpha conference in New York. Breyer’s bullishness about China stems from the accelerated deployment of internet technologies in urban and rural ...