Bloomberg AutoGrid Systems Inc., a California company developing software to manage power on the grid, said it closed a $32 million round of financing as it expands in North America, Asia and Europe. The Series D round included new investors CLP Holdings, Germany utility Innogy SE, Danish renewable power developer Orsted A/S and power producer Tenaska, according to a statement ...

Bloomberg Angela Merkel and Jean-Claude Juncker warned of the threat posed by rising nationalism across the European Union, painting next year’s continent-wide elections as a clash of fundamental values that will determine the bloc’s future direction. In tandem speeches in Berlin and Strasbourg on Wednesday morning, Germany’s chancellor and the European Commission president struck a common tone of alarm at ...

Bloomberg Russian President Vladimir Putin rejected British allegations that the Russians suspected of carrying out a nerve-agent attack on a former spy in the UK are intelligence agents and called on them to go public, taking a defiant tone in his first official comments on the charges. “We know who they are. We found them,” Putin told an an economic ...