Bloomberg Starbucks Corp., facing heavy competition, mobile-ordering hiccups and even boycott threats, has been losing U.S. customers to rivals this winter. In February, the company ceded market share to other chains, according to data from xAd Inc., a research firm that uses location signals from mobile phones to measure customer traffic. Starbucks’ share declined to 11 percent among the …

  Bloomberg Royal Dutch Shell Plc will sell almost all of its production assets in Canada’s oil sands in a $7.25 billion deal that cuts debt and reduces involvement in one of the most environmentally damaging forms of fossil-fuel extraction. All of the company’s oil-sands interests apart from a 10 percent stake in the Athabasca mining project will be sold …

  BEIRUT / Reuters Egypt needs to implement economic reforms aimed at encouraging more private investment and moving away from subsidies towards targeted transfers for the poor, a senior World Bank official said. Hafez Ghanem, the World Bank’s vice president for the Middle East and North Africa, told Reuters in an interview that Cairo’s next set of economic reforms should …