Bloomberg The man with the final word on design at one of the world’s biggest automakers sees a future dominated by self-driving boxes-on-wheels and souped-up sports cars. For Simon Humphries, who as of this year oversees design globally across Toyota Motor Corp.’s namesake and luxury Lexus brands, mobility will follow two divergent paths. One is the e-Palette, a customizable robo-van ...

Bloomberg Broadcom Ltd.’s bid for Qualcomm Inc. is a good place to start negotiations between the two companies on what would be the biggest deal in the history of technology, according to Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. The influential proxy adviser, though, stopped short of recommending that Qualcomm shareholders vote for the current offer of $82 a share, in a report. ...

Bloomberg Deere & Co., the world’s largest farm machine maker, raised its full-year sales forecast, and there’s reason to believe that good news will keep coming. After a prolonged slump for crop prices that slashed farmer income, fundamentals are starting to rebound, according to Farha Aslam, an analyst at Stephens Inc. There’s a chorus echoing that view. Bunge Ltd. Chief ...

Bloomberg Uber Technologies Inc. is launching a range of measures, including 24-hour telephone support hotlines and better contact with local police, in a bid to appease London’s regulator ahead of a court battle over its license to operate in the city. The ride-hailing company will now report “serious incidents” that occur during a passenger’s journey to the police, rather than ...

Bloomberg For Roche Holding AG, collaborating with tech startups is no longer enough. Now it wants to own them. The Swiss oncology giant bought three tech companies and joined forces with another in the past eight months as it seeks to take advantage of a flood of data from patients and clinical studies. The most recent deal, a $1.9 billion ...

Bloomberg In his 50 years working in Britain’s car industry, John Cooper has survived plenty of upheavals. None is scarier than the prospect of Brexit. Being split off from their biggest market means the job cuts and production slowdown UK carmakers have imposed the past few months could be just a prelude to wholesale shutdowns. The shock is only beginning ...

Anyone looking for good economic news will be disappointed by the latest inflation report, which showed the Consumer Price Index (CPI) advancing by 0.5 percent in January. By itself, this isn’t especially alarming — prices jump around month to month — but it has troubling implications for the future. To some economists, it suggests the possibility of another financial crisis ...

The Indian central bank is shutting down its halfway houses for debt addicts. In the process, it’s also throwing out an infuriating alphabet soup: CDR, SDR, S4A and their ilk. Lenders will now have a much cleaner—and stricter—system for dealing with distressed large borrowers. If they still try to hide bad loans, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will whack ...

Time and space are wonderful things — except South Africa doesn’t really have the luxury of either. The ruling African National Congress party are trying to smooth the end of President Jacob Zuma’s political career, and decided not to set a deadline for him to respond to their decision that he should leave office. An extended exit has the capacity ...

Two days before the horrific school shooting in Parkland, Florida, that killed 17 people on February 14, Remington Outdoor Co. announced that it was filing for bankruptcy protection. Remington Outdoor is the world’s biggest gun company. In addition to Remington rifles, its brands include Bushmaster, Marlin and DPMS. It is owned by the private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management, which ...