Bloomberg Nvidia Corp. agreed to buy chipmaker Mellanox Technologies Ltd. for $6.9 billion, gaining expertise to help it push into the growing market for data center components. Santa Clara, California-based Nvidia is paying $125 a share in cash for the company, which makes chips used to speed the flow of information across computer servers. That’s a 14 percent premium to ...

Bloomberg Barrick Gold Corp. is withdrawing its $17.8 billion hostile takeover bid for New- mont Mining Corp., with the companies opting instead to forge a joint venture around their Nevada projects. The change came weeks after Barrick proposed an all-share offer that would have created the world’s largest gold producer. After Newmont’s board rejected the bid, Newmont Chief Executive Officer ...

Bloomberg Google controls many of the ways businesses access customers online in the US, making it almost impossible to run a company without buying advertising from the internet giant. As politicians increase scrutiny of large technology companies, Google’s lock on these digital relationships is becoming a potential liability, not just a lucrative advantage praised each quarter by Wall Street analysts. ...

Bloomberg Twitter Inc. added to efforts to address concerns over privacy protection on social media. In a tweet from its safety handle, the company announced an update to its abuse reporting functions, allowing users to specify personal information issues, with a GIF showing step-by-step instructions. The social media company earlier in the day tweeted an image on its main account ...

Bloomberg The US labour market may not be as weak as February’s payrolls number suggested, but the report provides a reality check that a long-forecast slowdown is arriving. Employers added 20,000 jobs during the month, the fewest since September 2017, missing all economist estimates and bucking a recent trend of strong February readings. Analysts said the unexpectedly low figure doesn’t ...

Bloomberg North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is showing signs he might fire his first rocket in 15 months. Long-time observers suspect he is bluffing. Two days after Kim’s summit with US President Donald Trump broke down over sanctions relief and disarmament steps last month, satellite images showed that North Korea was rebuilding a long-range rocket site it recently dismantled. The ...

Bloomberg Estonia’s ruling Center Party, the runner-up in parliamentary elections, unexpectedly invited anti-immigrant populists to coalition talks, raising the risk that nationalists may gain a voice in another European Union government. With the EU struggling to address gains made by euroskeptic nationalists in elections from Rome to Warsaw, Center invited the anti-establishment EKRE party and the junior ruling Isamaa to ...

Bloomberg Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa said he opposes a strategy of creating large European corporate champions at the expense of competition within the region. “We can’t accept it when some large member states say it’s essential to create big champions at the global scale, merging European companies, sacrificing competition in the internal market and sacrificing the development potential of ...

Bloomberg Theresa May’s government declared Brexit talks are “deadlocked” as ministers urged the European Union to make a last minute concession to stop the deal being thrown out by Parliament this week. May’s office said on Monday that she spoke to European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker by telephone late on Sunday, but the prime minister is not planning to travel ...

Bloomberg Abdelaziz Bouteflika arrived home from Geneva, signalling that the Algerian president intends to push ahead with his bid for re-election in the face of mass demonstrations demanding he step aside. Bouteflika’s decision to run for a fifth term has triggered seismic protests in the North African OPEC member, presenting the 82-year-old leader and ruling National Liberation Front (FLN) party ...