published Jun 20th 2017, 7:19 pm, by Pavel Alpeyev (Bloomberg) — Hi, this is Pavel, a technology reporter in Tokyo. Earlier this month, Sony unveiled an unusual new product —a robotic toy. At first glance, Toio, which stands for “toy” and “I/O,” looks like an old-fashioned video game console, complete

published Jun 20th 2017, 8:04 pm, by Garfield Reynolds (Bloomberg) —Asian shares retreated as crude oil tumbled into a bear market on concern a global supply glut will persist. Futures on China’s equities pointed higher after MSCI Inc. added the nation’s domestic stocks to its emerging-markets index. Australian equities led losses

published Jun 20th 2017, 2:36 pm, by Jonathan Ferziger (Bloomberg) —Jared Kushner’s return to Israel this week bolsters White House efforts to broker a peace deal, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu examines what he needs to give Palestinians to bring ties with the broader Arab world out of the shadows,

published Jun 19th 2017, 4:08 pm, by Laurel Brubaker Calkins (Bloomberg) —The White House has ordered the U.S. Justice Department to jump into Texas’s battle to force its cities and elected local officials to comply with the state’s tough sanctuary-city ban, which makes it a crime to shelter some undocumented

published Jun 14th 2017, 3:00 am, by Dune Lawrence (Bloomberg) — He tested the presidential waters for Donald Trump and then served as a campaign guard dog, threatening a reporter that he would “mess your life up.” Before long, he was swept up in the questions swirling around the administration

published Jun 19th 2017, 8:16 pm, by Justin Sink and Nick Wadhams (Bloomberg) —President Donald Trump on Monday denounced the death of Otto Warmbier, saying the University of Virginia student who spent more than a year imprisoned in North Korea suffered at the hands of a “brutal regime.” “At least

published Jun 17th 2017, 11:45 pm, by David Wainer (Bloomberg) —If you’ve been driving on Israel’s roads over the past decade, you’ve probably noticed that every year the highways get more congested and the cars flashier. Households that used to have just one car now allow themselves more. Changes are

published Jun 18th 2017, 4:00 pm, by Christopher Balding (Bloomberg View) —Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., already the largest Chinese company by market capitalization, is nothing if not ambitious. Its chief financial officer, Maggie Wu, recently told investors she expects revenue to increase by up to 49 percent next year, a

published Jun 18th 2017, 4:02 pm, by Lindsey Rupp and John Lauerman (Bloomberg) —Alphabet Inc.’s Google says it is creating new policies and practices to suppress terrorism-related videos, a response to U.K. lawmakers who have said the internet is a petri dish for radical ideology. Google will increase its use

published Jun 14th 2017, 3:32 pm, by Suzanne Woolley (Bloomberg) —How tech-savvy are you? Recent volatility in popular technology stocks, including Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Facebook Inc., Google parent Alphabet Inc., and others, is a reminder to check the tech weighting in your retirement portfolio. There’s nothing wrong with having a big slug of tech