TOKYO (Reuters) -Nissan Motor's board has decided to reassign Chief Financial Officer Stephen Ma to head its China business, the Nikkei newspaper reported, a high-profile shake-up for the crisis-hit Japanese automaker as it cuts thousands of jobs. The replacement of Ma, who will be succeeded by Nissan Americas Chairperson Jeremie Papin according to Nikkei, is another blow to President-CEO Makoto...

* Nissan Americas Chairperson Jeremie Papin to be new CFO -Nikkei * Changes expected to be announced on Wednesday -Yomiuri * Automaker is cutting jobs and capacity as part of turnaround plan (Adds background, details throughout) TOKYO, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Nissan Motor's ( NSANF ) board has decided to reassign Chief Financial Officer Stephen Ma to head its China...

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Alphabet, the Google parent that has pioneered self-driving cars and quantum computing, is making its biggest bet much closer to home: online search. Applying artificial intelligence to the search business that made Google a household name remains the largest gambit for the company, Ruth Porat, Alphabet's president and chief investment officer, said at the Reuters NEXT conference...

(Reuters) -A U.S. judge blocked the pending $25-billion merger of U.S. grocery chains Kroger and Albertsons on Tuesday, in a win for the Federal Trade Commission that Kroger has said would likely scuttle the deal. The FTC argued at a three-week trial in Portland, Oregon, that the merger would eliminate head-to-head competition between the top two traditional grocery chains, leading...