©2016 Bloomberg News O34TES6K50ZF (Bloomberg) — Ten engineers and a month of work — that’s what it could take for Apple Inc. to write the program the FBI says it needs to crack the San Bernardino terrorist’s iPhone. In a court filing responding to a government request that it help

©2016 Bloomberg News O34T5K6K50YG (Bloomberg) — A former BP manager charged with violating U.S. pollution law over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill was cleared by a New Orleans jury, thwarting federal prosecutors’ last chance to jail someone over the disaster. Robert Kaluza, a well-site manager who wasn’t on

©2016 Bloomberg News O32V6A6JIJV0 (Bloomberg) — Islamic State has released a new video that targets the chief executive officers of Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. The 25-minute clip shows the faces of Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter’s Jack Dorsey riddled with mock bullet holes, according to the Guardian newspaper and

©2016 Bloomberg View O32JL96KLVRR (Bloomberg View) — It isn’t often that a sitting prime minister offers a lesson in comparative constitutional law. But Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu did so Monday while defending a bill that would allow three-quarters of the Knesset to expel a member who “supports terrorism by word or

©2016 Bloomberg News O330KT6JIJV6 (Bloomberg) — Yusuke Kitamura hid his sexuality from colleagues for most of his career. It was only after joining one of Japan’s oldest brokerages last year that he could tell them he was gay. “It was so stressful having to lie, and I was hoping to

©2016 Bloomberg News O30T4M6JTSEE (Bloomberg) — With the first presidential nominating contests now in the books, the focus of the race is jumping ahead to the biggest prize so far of the 2016 primary season: Super Tuesday More than a dozen states and territories will hold primaries and caucuses on March 1,

©2016 Bloomberg News O311896K5113 (Bloomberg) — Is software merely a set of instructions, telling a computer what to do? Or is it a unique, creative work that expresses a point of view and is protected under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution? The answers to these questions get to

©2016 Bloomberg News O318NY6TTDSH (Bloomberg) — Emerging-market stocks and currencies fell for a second day as oil extended declines and investors shunned riskier assets. Philippine shares dropped the most in two weeks and all 10 industry groups in MSCI’s gauge of developing-nation equities declined, with industrial and energy shares retreating

©2016 Bloomberg News O2Z8WR6S972W (Bloomberg) — All we need is an energy miracle. No pressure, kids. So came the call from Bill Gates on Monday evening with the release of his annual letter. It tackles heady subjects with the billionaire’s usual optimistically sober tone. Unlike letters past, Gates aimed this year’s

©2016 Bloomberg News O2Z3R36KLVRL (Bloomberg) — Republicans seem nearly united on blocking President Barack Obama from filling the vacancy on the Supreme Court left by Antonin Scalia’s death — but not on their leaders’ chosen plan of inaction. Republican leaders and most of the rank-and-file appear to be on board