­­­­­­­­­­­Bloomberg Facebook Inc. is working on a video chat device for the home — the first major hardware product from its experimental Building 8 lab. Featuring a laptop-sized touchscreen, the device represents a new product category and could be announced as soon as next spring’s F8 developer conference, according to people familiar with the matter. They say the large screen …

Bloomberg UK manufacturing growth accelerated for the first time in three months in July, bolstered by the strongest jump in export orders in seven years. A measure of factory output rose to 55.1 from a revised 54.2 in June, according to IHS Markit’s Purchasing Managers’ Index. That exceeds the advance to 54.5 forecast by economists in a Bloomberg survey and …

Bloomberg Nineteen cities from Amsterdam to Bucharest applied to host the European Union’s drugs regulator and eight sought to be the home of the bloc’s banking authority, kicking off a four-month campaign to win agencies being forced out of London by Brexit. The list of locations wanting the European Medicines Agency also included Lille, Milan and Bonn, while Dublin, Frankfurt …