Bloomberg The venture capital arms of Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Salesforce.com Inc. are investing in UK payments startup GoCardless, which has raised an additional $75 million to fund expansion. The financing is being led by Adams Street Partners, GV, formerly known as Google Ventures, and Salesforce Ventures, GoCardless said in a statement. Existing investors Accel Partners, Balderton Capital, Notion Capital ...

Bloomberg When US President Donald Trump sits down to talk peace with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un later this month, one of America’s closest allies— Japan — will be looking on with apprehension. Like the first time Trump met Kim in June, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has found himself on the outside peering in before their second summit set ...

Bloomberg Four Indian soldiers and two militants were killed in a gun battle in Kashmir on Monday, days after a deadly attack in the disputed region heightened tensions with neighbour Pakistan. The soldiers were killed during a search operation in Pulwama district, near the summer state capital of Srinagar, an Indian Army spokesman said in New Delhi. The army also ...

Bloomberg Prime Minister Shinzo Abe declined to say whether he nominated Donald Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize, while praising the US President for “decisive” efforts to resolve the problems of a nuclear-armed North Korea. Abe, who has worked hard to build a personal rapport with Trump, walked a fine line during a parliamentary committee meeting on Monday when asked ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump wanted the Russia investigation cited in the memo firing FBI Director James Comey, and believed Russia’s president over his own intelligence agencies about North Korea’s missile capability, former Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe said. McCabe said in a pre-recorded interview on CBS’s “60 Minutes” broadcast that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein didn’t want to include a ...

Bloomberg Two decades into Europe’s biggest unresolved dispute, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic says it’s time for a deal on Kosovo. After Greece and the ex-Yugoslav region of Macedonia settled a country-name clash, international pressure is shifting to Vucic to work for a deal with Kosovar leader Hashim Thaci. That would allow both sides to join the European Union and, at ...

Bloomberg Theresa May will lead a last-ditch diplomatic drive to persuade European Union leaders to save her Brexit agreement, as she faces a rebellion from Cabinet ministers who want to stop the UK leaving without a deal. May’s allies believe she has just nine days left to save her strategy before members of Parliament run out of patience and step ...

The “Green New Deal” is upon us, and the question is what to make of it. The Democratic proposal mandates that, within a decade, virtually all fossil fuels — which represent about four-fifths of the nation’s energy supply — shall be replaced with clean fuels that don’t worsen global warming. Just how is this task to be accomplished? The main ...

This is a moment in retail when virtually everything needs a makeover: Supply chains must be sped up, stores need to be more experiential, and marketing has to become more personalised, all to suit an increasingly digital world. So it only makes sense that the old rules of mall leasing need updating, too. One place where that’s happening is at ...

General Electric Co. can’t live with a fixation on market share, but it can’t live without it, either. The embattled conglomerate, having long run its business with the goal of being the No. 1 or No. 2 player in each of its industries, saw its lead in the gas turbine market shrink in 2018. GE captured 33 percent of orders ...