Bloomberg American business enthusiasm in Southeast Asia is bent but far from broken even as the region grapples with a new trade framework and less US government involvement, according to a survey by the American Chamber of Commerce in Singapore. Eighty percent of executives see their firms’ level of trade and investment in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or …

Bloomberg Volkswagen AG is putting its full force behind a shift into electric cars as the world’s largest automaker accelerates away from combustion engines and tries to draw a line under the emissions-cheating scandal that’s weighed on the company for two years. Speaking on the eve of the Frankfurt auto show, Chief Executive Officer Matthias Mueller announced sweeping plans to …

Bloomberg The venture capital firm led by LinkedIn Corp. co-founder Reid Hoffman has invested in Entrepreneur First, a London-based hub for start- ups, alongside Mosaic Ventures and Founders Fund. Greylock Partners led the $12.4 million funding, which also included Lakestar Capital, and Demis Hassabis and Mustafa Suleyman, the founders of DeepMind, according to a statem- ent from Entrepreneur First. Hoffman’s …