Bloomberg Rico Zorkendorfer, among several members of Apple Inc’s industrial design team to leave the company in recent months, has joined Bumblebee Spaces, a startup seeking to merge robotics with home furnishings. Zorkendorfer left Apple in April and is now leading design at the San Francisco-based startup that is combining smart home products and robotics, Sankarshan Murthy, the company’s co-founder …

Bloomberg Ford Motor Co is preparing to make a bigger push in electric vehicles (EV), according to Morgan Stanley. The company doesn’t currently offer any electric cars although it has been heavily investing in such technology. The carmaker’s ongoing discussions with Volkswagen AG promise to take its electric-car ambitions “to the next level,” analysts led by Adam Jonas wrote in …

Bloomberg European governments are actively discussing nominating Bank of England (BOE) Governor Mark Carney as the next head of the International Monetary Fund, according to a person familiar with the matter. While a Canadian by birth, Carney holds British and Irish passports, so his selection would technically preserve the seven-decade practice of a European running the Washington-based lender. The BOE …