Bloomberg Shareholders of Tata Sons Ltd. voted to convert the holding company to a private entity, a move that was opposed by ousted Chairman Cyrus Mistry, according to a person familiar with the matter. The motion introduced by the board led by Tata Trusts, which controls 66 percent of the company, dealt a blow to Mistry’s efforts to preserve the …

Bloomberg Google agreed to buy part of HTC Corp.’s engineering and design teams for $1.1 billion, taking on a cadre of veterans that worked on the Pixel phone and could bolster its nascent hardware business. Alphabet Inc.’s Google is taking on some 2,000 employees with experience working on its signature Pixel devices, intended to showcase the best features of the …

Bloomberg Facebook Inc. scrapped plans to create a new class of shares, a rare victory for outside investors in a battle for control of the world’s largest social media company. The move would have let Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg keep voting control even while selling almost all his shares to fund philanthropic endeavours. Only days before he was scheduled …

Bloomberg Mark Zuckerberg, the world’s fifth-richest person, plans to sell as much as 18 percent of his Facebook Inc. stock during the next 18 months. The founder and chief executive officer of the world’s biggest social media company expects to sell 35 million to 75 million shares, Menlo Park, California-based Facebook said in a regulatory filing. The stock ended the …

Bloomberg Is London’s decision to remove Uber Inc.’s taxi license a sign that Britain is turning inward ahead of Brexit? It could be seen as a concession to the capital’s famous black cab drivers, who are highly trained and expensive, and resent competition from cheaper rivals equipped with satellite navigation. They are skilled tradesmen threatened by the march of technology …

Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc. is set to open a large new office in New York City and create 2,000 high-paying jobs. The e-commerce giant, which already has several locations across the city, will expand its presence with a 359,000 square-foot office in Manhattan that will employ people in finance, sales, marketing and information technology earning an average of $100,000 annually. Amazon …

Bloomberg You don’t even have to leave the airport to see that Hurricane Maria has laid waste to Puerto Rico’s power grid. The San Juan airport was abandoned. No electricity meant no air conditioning, and no air conditioning meant hot and muggy air wafting through the terminals. Ceilings were leaking. Floors were wet. Only the military, relying on its own …

Bloomberg Chicago, described by President Trump and others as a hellish, dystopian crime scene akin to a “war-torn nation” and “worse than Afghanistan” is about to shatter all of its tourism records, including the one it set last year. An abundance of creative energy is driving this renaissance: The growing skyline is getting filled with increasingly stylish hotels, and a …

When you discount the rhetorical overkill, the most surprising thing about Donald Trump’s address to the United Nations on Tuesday was how conventional it was. He supported human rights and democracy; he opposed rogue regimes; he espoused a global community of strong, sovereign nations. Pretty shocking stuff. Because he’s Trump, the zingers got the headlines: He repeated his childish, snarky …

It has been 10 years since the last financial crisis, and some have already started to predict that the next one is near. But when it comes, it will likely have its roots in Silicon Valley, not Wall Street. The world of finance looks very different today than it did 10 years ago. In 2007, our biggest concern was “too …