Bloomberg Papa John’s International Inc fell after the pizza chain reported earnings that suggest little growth for its North American locations this year, along with concerns about the coronavirus that’s quickly becoming a threat to the global economy. While North American same-store sales rose 3.5% last quarter and exceeded analysts’ predictions, the chain isn’t planning on increasing its net store …

Bloomberg Nestle SA, the world’s largest food and beverage company, told employees to avoid travelling for business reasons until the middle of March to keep from contracting or spreading the coronavirus. The Swiss maker of KitKat and Nespresso capsules “shares global concerns over the spread and impact on public health of coronavirus,” it said. Nestle, which employs 291,000 people worldwide, …

ABU DHABI / WAM The National, the English-language news outlet based in Abu Dhabi, has been selected by the Google News Initiative as one of the first winners of Google’s GNI Middle East Innovation Challenge. The GNI Middle East Innovation Challenge is a programme that will fund a set of projects across the region that inject new ideas into the …