 | | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co won U.S. approval to buy Twenty-First Century Fox Inc entertainment assets for $71.3 billion on condition it sell Fox's 22 regional sports networks, the Justice Department said on Wednesday, giving Disney an edge over Comcast Corp's competing bid. | | | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks fell on Wednesday on renewed uncertainty regarding the U.S. stance on Chinese investments in American technology companies, reversing gains earlier in the session. | | | | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two major auto trade groups on Wednesday warned the Trump administration that imposing up to 25 percent tariffs on imported vehicles would cost hundreds of thousands of auto jobs, dramatically hike prices on vehicles and threaten industry spending on self-driving cars. | | | | | | (Reuters) - Conagra Brands Inc said on Wednesday it would buy Pinnacle Foods Inc for about $8.1 billion, trying to grab a bigger share of the fast-growing snack and frozen food markets amid fierce competition in the packaged food industry. | | | | | | (Reuters) - Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd on Wednesday settled a seven-year patent dispute over Apple's allegations that Samsung violated its patents by "slavishly" copying the design of the iPhone. | | | | | | (Reuters) - Lyft Inc said on Wednesday it raised $600 million in a new funding round led by Fidelity Management, doubling the ride-hailing firm's valuation to $15.1 billion in little over a year. | | | | | | SEATTLE (Reuters) - Three of the largest engine makers face a Wednesday deadline to provide Boeing Co with formal proposals for how they would power the planemaker's possible new mid-market jet, an aviation magazine reported. | | | | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he will use a strengthened national security review process to thwart Chinese acquisitions of sensitive American technologies, a softer approach than imposing China-specific investment restrictions. | | | | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Equifax Inc agreed on Wednesday to do more to protect consumer data in a deal with banking regulators from seven states who investigated its security practices following a cyber attack last year that exposed data on more than 143 million people. Equifax agreed to review its defenses against hackers and to give its board of directors more responsibility for protecting consumers. | | | | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New orders for U.S.-made capital goods and shipments unexpectedly fell in May, but upward revisions to data for the prior month pointed to moderate growth in business spending on equipment in the second quarter. | | | | | |
