Bloomberg Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma may team up with SoftBank Group Corp.’s Masayoshi Son in a $1.5 billion investment in ride-hailing startup Grab, according to people familiar with the matter. The investment would be part of Grab’s previously reported $1.5 billion fundraising, led by SoftBank and aimed at giving the Singaporean startup cash to battle Uber Technologies Inc. in Southeast ...

Bloomberg China Vanke Co., a logistics partner of Blackstone Group LP in China, is in talks to join a management-backed consortium bidding for warehouse operator Global Logistic Properties Ltd., people with knowledge of the matter said. The Shenzhen-based homebuilder has discussed becoming one of about six major investors in the Chinese bidding group backed by Hopu Investment Management, Hillhouse Capital ...

Bloomberg Warburg Pincus agreed to buy a stake in Tata Technologies Ltd. from its parent Tata Motors Ltd., owner of Jaguar Land Rover, and another Tata group company for about $360 million. The New York-based private equity firm will acquire 43 percent stake in the Singapore-headquartered engineering services company, Tata Motors said in a statement on Thursday. Warburg Pincus will ...

Bloomberg Since its founding 23 years ago, Amazon.com Inc. has upended the business of selling books, music and just about everything else we consume — except food. Not anymore. In one fell swoop, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos charged into the supermarket business with the $13.7 billion acquisition of Whole Foods. The surprise deal shakes up the $800 billion grocery sector ...

Bloomberg Dow Chemical Co. and DuPont Co. won US antitrust approval for their $73 billion merger, overcoming one of the last remaining hurdles to a deal that would create a global chemicals giant. The companies said that the assets they agreed to sell to win US approval didn’t go beyond what they had already agreed to with other jurisdictions. DuPont ...

Bloomberg Nestle SA’s new chief executive officer is putting the world’s biggest food company on a diet, moving to shed its US confectionery business as he seeks growth from healthier and more profitable businesses. Half a year after taking the helm at the Vevey, Switzerland-based company, Mark Schneider put brands like Butterfinger and BabyRuth up for sale. Nestle’s shares rose ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump announced new restrictions limiting US citizens’ ability to travel to and do business in Cuba, moving to roll back his predecessor’s historic rapprochement and drawing a rare rebuke from the nation’s largest business lobbying group. The changes Trump announced include a ban on Americans doing business with the military and intelligence-affiliated companies that control large swaths ...

Bloomberg Queen Elizabeth II declared a “somber national mood” after the deadly apartment tower fire in West London killed at least 30 people as doubts mount about Prime Minister Theresa May’s handling of the crisis. For two days, May’s government has struggled to respond to the fire at Grenfell Tower, opened four decades ago as state-subsidized housing. She met survivors ...

Bloomberg The trial of Jay Y. Lee, heir to the Samsung Group empire, has featured thousands of pages of documents and hundreds of hours of testimony from dozens of witnesses. But experts say one thing is missing: a smoking gun. The billionaire stands accused of paying bribes to South Korean President Park Geun-hye and then trying to conceal it, charges ...

Forewarned is forearmed. So perhaps the country is lucky that President Trump’s allies have floated the possibility that he might fire special counsel Robert Mueller. This speculation allows citizens to reflect on the consequences of such an action. Trump has already taken the country to a darker place than even his sharpest critics would have imagined six months ago. He ...