Bloomberg Facebook Inc. has sent another signal that it’s serious about building its own semiconductors, joining Apple Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google, and Amazon.com Inc. in trying to make its own custom chips. The social-networking giant this month hired Shahriar Rabii to be a vice president and its head of silicon. Rabii previously worked at Google, where he helped lead the ...

Bloomberg France is on a charm offensive. While the UK’s financial-services industry reels from the Prime Minister’s latest Brexit proposal, politicians across the Channel are stepping up their campaign to show firms they have other options. On a two-day visit to the UK, French Deputy Finance Minister Delphine Geny-Stephann met banks, asset managers, private equity and fintech firms in an ...

Bloomberg An IS suicide bomber killed at least 159 people in Pakistan on July 13 in one of the country’s worst attacks in living memory ahead of a tense July 25 national election. The blast also injured 200 others at an election rally in northwestern Mastung in the restive province of Balochistan, Ali Ahmed, a rescue worker in Mastung told ...