Bloomberg The appointment of Dara Khosrowshahi as head of Uber Technologies Inc. this summer was supposed to mark the beginning of a new chapter. The company had been racing from one disaster to the next, leading to boycotts, lawsuits, criminal probes, an executive exodus and an investor-led mutiny against the co-founder. Somehow, the new chief executive officer keeps finding more …

Bloomberg As UK consumers start to suffer from Brexit jitters, British retailers have extended the Black Friday discounts they borrowed from America over as much as two weeks to lure wary shoppers online and in stores. They need a push. The slide in the pound after the UK’s vote to leave the European Union has driven up the cost of …

Bloomberg The UK regulator in charge of data privacy is looking into the major hack of Uber Technologies Inc.’s user data, opening up yet another front in the ride-hailing firm’s battle to manage one of its most successful markets. “Uber’s announcement about a concealed data breach last October raises huge concerns around its data protection policies and ethics,” James Dipple-Johnstone, …