­­­­­­­­­­­Bloomberg Facebook Inc. is working on a video chat device for the home — the first major hardware product from its experimental Building 8 lab. Featuring a laptop-sized touchscreen, the device represents a new product category and could be announced as soon as next spring’s F8 developer conference, according to people familiar with the matter. They say the large screen ...

Bloomberg UK manufacturing growth accelerated for the first time in three months in July, bolstered by the strongest jump in export orders in seven years. A measure of factory output rose to 55.1 from a revised 54.2 in June, according to IHS Markit’s Purchasing Managers’ Index. That exceeds the advance to 54.5 forecast by economists in a Bloomberg survey and ...

Bloomberg Nineteen cities from Amsterdam to Bucharest applied to host the European Union’s drugs regulator and eight sought to be the home of the bloc’s banking authority, kicking off a four-month campaign to win agencies being forced out of London by Brexit. The list of locations wanting the European Medicines Agency also included Lille, Milan and Bonn, while Dublin, Frankfurt ...