Bloomberg The Trump administration will press China to prove it can keep promises in talks this week aimed at ending the trade war, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said, as the US ratcheted up legal pressure on one of the biggest examples of Chinese technological might. In a sign of the importance the White House is placing on the talks, President ...

Bloomberg Europe warned the world’s biggest tech and advertising companies that they need to intensify efforts to combat disinformation on their platforms ahead of European elections, or face regulation. The European Commission, the bloc’s executive body, acknowledged that companies such as Alphabet Inc’s Google, Twitter Inc and Facebook Inc, had made “some progress”, in particular with removing fake accounts and ...

Bloomberg T-Mobile US Inc Chief Executive Officer John Legere and Sprint Corp Chairman Marcelo Claure agreed to testify about their planned $26.5 billion merger before a Democratic-controlled House panel that is expected to bring tougher scrutiny to the consolidation of telecom giants. The hearing, scheduled for February 13, gives Representative David Cicilline of Rhode Island, the chairman of the House ...