April 24 (Reuters) - Following are the top stories on the New York Times business pages. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
* Facing intense regulatory scrutiny, Comcast Corp is planning to abandon its $45 billion takeover of Time Warner Cable Inc, people briefed on the matter said on Thursday, ending a bid that would have united the country's two largest cable operators and reshaped the rapidly evolving video and broadband markets. (http://nyti.ms/1GbLdEu)
* The Pentagon on Thursday took a major step designed to instill a measure of fear in potential cyberadversaries, releasing a new strategy that for the first time explicitly discusses the circumstances under which cyberweapons could be used against an attacker, and naming the countries it says present the greatest threat: China, Russia, Iran and North Korea. (http://nyti.ms/1aWSIGA)
* Chinese antitrust regulators on Thursday fined Daimler AG's Mercedes-Benz 350 million yuan ($56.49 million), accusing the company of fixing prices on luxury cars and some spare parts. The penalty is just the latest for a foreign carmaker in China, the world's largest auto market. (http://nyti.ms/1JA8eUq)
* Venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is offering a new deal to the former associate who unsuccessfully sued the firm, accusing it of gender discrimination: Promise not to pursue this case any further or pay us $1 million. (http://nyti.ms/1DiqegU)
* The family office for the Google Inc chairman Eric E. Schmidt has purchased a large stake in the $36 billion hedge fund, D. E. Shaw. (http://nyti.ms/1yVifeH)
* Deutsche Bank agreed to pay $2.5 billion in penalties, a record settlement for the interest rate cases, which have already stung the likes of Barclays Plc and UBS Group AG. Deutsche Bank also agreed to accept a criminal guilty plea for the British subsidiary at the center of the case (http://nyti.ms/1HyqSNH)
($1 = 6.1962 Chinese yuan) (Compiled by Rama Venkat Raman in Bengaluru)