Bloomberg BlackBerry Ltd. shares reached their highest price in more than two years after short-seller Citron Research said the company was a likely target for a buyout at a high premium. The stock gained 7.9 percent to $11.40 at 1:20 p.m. in New York, after earlier hitting $11.74, the highest intraday price since January 2015. Citron recommends investors buy shares, ...

Bloomberg SoftBank Group Corp. is in discussions with potential investors in Canada and the Middle East to raise $7 billion of additional capital for its technology fund, according to people familiar with the matter. The Japanese company is in talks with Canadian pension funds, sovereign wealth funds in Kuwait and Qatar and technology companies, the people said, asking not to ...

Bloomberg Cloudflare Inc. hired Symantec Corp.’s former chief financial officer to fill the same role at the network security company as it prepares for an initial public offering. Thomas Seifert will join San Francisco-based Cloudflare, according to the company. After considering about 30 candidates over a two-and-a-half year search process, Seifert was the first person Cloudflare made a formal offer ...