Bloomberg Even before ballots are counted from the elections, some clear winners have emerged, as Google and Facebook Inc. reap windfalls from political advertising after a season of controversy over online political speech. Political ad spending is on course to set a record, exceeding expenditures in the 2016 presidential election year, with a total of perhaps $9 billion. Political ad ...

Bloomberg Dell Technologies Inc. has reached out to investors to determine what it would take to win their support for its plans to return to the public markets, a person familiar with the matter said. Shareholders, including activist investor Carl Icahn, have balked at the terms of Dell’s proposed deal to take the technology giant public through a $21.7 billion ...

Bloomberg Qualcomm Inc. suffered a setback in its fight with US antitrust regulators who accuse the semiconductor maker of abusing a monopoly in chips for cell phones and raising costs for consumers. US District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California, sided with the Federal Trade Commission on part of the agency’s antitrust case against Qualcomm ahead of a trial ...