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Lufthansa bids with MSC for Alitalia successor ITA

  Bloomberg Deutsche Lufthansa AG confirmed that it made a joint bid with container giant MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company SA to buy Italia Trasporto Aereo, known as ITA, the successor to failed carrier Alitalia. That sets up a possible two-horse race for ITA, with Lufthansa and MSC likely to face off against a group backed by the German carrier’s European ...

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Ex-Just Eat CEO mulls raising VC fund

  Bloomberg David Buttress, the former chief executive officer of UK food delivery firm Just Eat, is weighing plans to create his own venture capital fund after a making nearly a dozen investments on his own. Buttress joined venture capital firm 83North as a venture partner after stepping down from Just Eat in 2017, and has also made 10 so-called ...

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N Korea fires suspected ICBM as Biden wraps up Asia tour

Bloomberg North Korea appears to have fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in a defiant show of force just hours after US President Joe Biden wrapped up a visit to the region, testing his efforts to strengthen defense ties with South Korea and Japan. South Korea said a suspected ICBM reached an altitude of about 540 kilometres (335 miles) and ...

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