December, 2017

• 4 December

  CVS to buy Aetna for $67.5bn, remaking health care sector

  

  Bloomberg CVS Health Corp. will buy Aetna Inc. for about $67.5 billion, creating a health-care giant that will have a hand in everything from insurance to the corner drugstore. CVS will pay $207 a share for Aetna, with $145 a share in cash and the rest in stock, the companies said in a statement. That’s a 29 percent premium to ...

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• 4 December

  Volkswagen unveils electric minibus

  

  Bloomberg Volkswagen AG’s Moia division unveiled a six-seater, battery-powered minibus to enter the market of app-based ride hailing and car-pooling, taking on the likes of Uber Technologies. The modified van will begin roaming the streets of Hamburg in the second half of next year, although Moia aims to roll out the service internationally, Ole Harms, chief executive of the division, ...

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• 4 December

  London, Brussels fail to clinch a breakthrough on Brexit

  

  Bloomberg London and Brussels failed to clinch a long-sought breakthrough on Brexit after a series of dramatic twists that saw a tentative deal derailed by the delicate question of the Irish border. “It was not possible to reach a complete agreement today,” European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker told reporters. Talks will resume this week and he’s confident there will be ...

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• 4 December

  ‘London tops best-performing European cities’

  Bloomberg London is the best-performing city in Europe, according to the Milken Institute. Inner London-East including the Canary Wharf financial district topped the ranking published by the Santa Monica, California-based think tank on Monday. The area beat out competition from Stockholm and Budapest, in second and third-place respectively, because of its skilled global workforce, dynamic economy and “flourishing” information and ...

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• 4 December

  GM’s self-driving cars to be ready for ride-sharing in 2019

  

  Bloomberg General Motors Co. plans to have its self-driving cars ready for a ride-share service within two years as the automaker looks beyond traditional car ownership for new tech-driven sources of revenue. After spending more than a year putting the pieces in place to launch a robotaxi business, GM said it expects to have a fleet of self-driving cars in ...

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• 4 December

  China’s phonemaker Xiaomi to seek $50bn valuation in IPO

  

  Bloomberg Xiaomi Corp., the Chinese smartphone maker that was once the most valuable startup in the world, is in talks with investment banks about a possible initial public offering and seeking a valuation of at least $50 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. The Beijing-based company is considering an offering as soon as next year with banks suggesting ...

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• 4 December

  Fiat, Hyundai to partner to develop Hydrogen-engine

  

  Bloomberg Fiat Chrysler Automobiles revealed that it’s in talks with South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Co. about a partnership to develop hydrogen engines. The alliance, which would also cover transmissions, could become “a strong one,” Fiat Chrysler Chief Executive Officer Sergio Marchionne said. “We welcome the interest from other automakers in our advanced transmissions and hydrogen-powered technologies,” Hyundai said on Monday. ...

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• 4 December

  New CEO Salil Parekh aims to steady troubled Infosys

  

  Bloomberg Salil Parekh overcame long odds to become Infosys Ltd.’s choice for its next chief executive officer. He now faces at least as challenging a task in getting the iconic Indian outsourcing company back on track. The low-key, 53-year-old from Capgemini SE was named to the helm of Infosys, beating out a field of internal candidates and former executives who ...

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• 4 December

  China likely to overtake America as largest importer in next few years

  Bloomberg From iron ore to baby formula, electronic parts, China is buying everything you can think of, and that will soon make the world’s biggest exporter the top importer in the next few years. China already takes more imports that the US does from Asia, Africa, Oceania, South America and Eastern Europe, and it will likely snatch the No1 importer ...

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• 4 December

  PR firm seeks insolvency proceedings for RCom

  Bloomberg A public-relations firm became the latest company to ask an Indian tribunal to place billionaire Anil Ambani-run Reliance Communications Ltd. under insolvency proceedings after the unprofitable mobile-phone operator failed to pay its dues. Fortuna Public Relations Pvt. placed its request with the Mumbai bench of National Company Law Tribunal on Monday, saying Reliance Communications owes it $67,000. The NCLT ...

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