Which trains olympians. Global news, 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. Im Alisa Parenti. This is bloomberg. Bloomberg technology is next. Emily im emily chang. And this is Bloomberg Technology. Coming up, paul cant slapped with a massive fine qualcomm slapped with a massive fine. Plus, more highlights from the World Economic forum in davos, including our conversations with bill gates and the ceos of Morgan Stanley and the nasdaq. Intel gets ready to report its fourthquarter earnings. We will take a closer look at the impact to its bottom line. First, european regulators have slapped qualcomm with a 1. 2 billion fine for anticompetitive practices. 201 to 2016, qualcomm paid apple to exclusively use its chips in their products. Qualcomm pushed out rivals as a result. Our decision found that qualcomm cemented its decision by illegally shutting out rivals from the market for over five years. Appealualcomm pushed qualcomm o this d
Sarah Huckabee Sanders says more details on President Trumps proposed border wall will be provided monday. The president warned earlier that, if there is no wall, there wont be a deal on protecting undocumented immigrants brought into the u. S. As minors from deportation. After nearly a week of victim impact statements, a michigan judge imposed a 175year sentence on larry nassar, that is the sports doctor who sexually assaulted young gymnasts. Nassar worked at usa gymnastics, which trains olympians. Global news, 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. Im alisa parenti. This is bloomberg. Is and Bloomberg Technology is next. Emily im emily chang. Emily im emily chang. And this is Bloomberg Technology. Coming up, qualcomm slapped with a message line from european chipmakers european lawmakers. Plus, more highlights from the World Economic forum in davos, including our conversations with bill gates and the ceos of Morgan Stanley and t
Nasdaq at 5,120. S p 5002,087 and the russell down almost a full percent. But we begin now with the big deal in health insurance. It is official. An them agreeing to buy cigna for 188 per share in cash and stock. An enterprised are value of 54 billion. Straight to bertha coombs. Combined anthem and sigma would unseat United Health to become the largest u. S. Health insurer with 150 billion in annual revenues. More than 50 million members covering nearly 1 in 5 americans. Anthems ceo joseph swedish aide mitts put admits putting the two big firms together will be challenging but with that scale they can generate operating savings and make them more affordable. It will improper our ability to serve customers across commercial medicaid medicare and International Markets and create greater efficiencies and afford ability for our customers. But the anthem deal taken with aetnas proposed merger with humana would result in the big five insurers becoming the big three. One antitrust lawyer tell
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The boss of Ride Hailing Company comes to london to meet the citys regulator to try to get its license back. The game took us by storm, but will the shares of the Company Behind angry birds have a similar impact when they go public today . Welcome to World Business report, im ben bland. First, the boss of Uber Dara Khosrowshahi will sit down for crucial talks with officials in london today. The future of the ride hailing app has been put in doubt after transport for london took the decision not to renew the compa nys license. Tfl expressed its concern over a number of issues, including the way uber managed driver medical certificates, and there was also serious concerns regarding background checks and the reporting of criminal offences. The uk is ubers biggest market in europe and the company serves 3. 5 million customers in london alone. Although ubers license to operate in the capital technically ran out at the start of the month, the 40,000 drivers who use the service can continue t