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QIA mulls abandoning Credit Suisse office sale

  AP The Qatar Investment Authority is considering abandoning the sale of 1 Cabot Square, an office building in London’s Canary Wharf financial district leased to Credit Suisse Group AG, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. QIA was reviewing the sale plan even before the U.K. voted to leave the European Union, the people said, asking not ...

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Silicon Valley’s latest startup offering is a whole city

  Bloomberg Y Combinator, the startup accelerator and investment firm that helped produce Airbnb, Dropbox, and Instacart, is embarking on a creation project arguably more ambitious than any company. “We want to build cities,” wrote Y Combinator partner Adora Cheung and President Sam Altman in an announcement slated for release Monday. YC Research, Y Combinator’s nonprofit arm, plans to solicit ...

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Vistara vie with Gulf carriers

  Singapore / Bloomberg Within weeks of India easing aviation rules, Singapore Airlines Ltd.’s local venture is charting a course to take on carriers from the Middle East. It’s counting on a surge in international traffic from the world’s fastest growing major air-travel market. Vistara, in which the city-state’s flag carrier owns 49 percent, is considering buying or leasing wide ...

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