Asia

India’s decision to ban programs that offer access to a limited set of websites and apps, including Facebook’s Free Basics service, raises questions about the social-media site’s effort to expand Internet use in developing countries.

A country in which a premium is placed on privacy, Japan is beginning to open up to the sharing economy and its government is moving to ease home-sharing restrictions.

Sony was hit by the slowdown at Apple, but James Bond came to the rescue. The company said fiscal third-quarter net profit rose 33.5% from a year earlier, thanks to strength from its PlayStation business and movie unit.

Investors are taking a second look at China’s high-value startups such as smartphone maker Xiaomi, which is now facing growing pressure to live up to high expectations.

Sundar Pichai, chief executive of Alphabet Inc.’s Google, used a visit to India to provide an update on his plans to increase Internet access in the world’s second-most-populous country.

One challenge global brands face in bringing suspected counterfeiters to justice is that the raids the companies rely on to nail fraudsters may be tainted, staged or fabricated.

Sony swung to a fiscal second-quarter profit from a year-earlier loss on solid sales of its PlayStation 4 videogame console and image sensors.

The Indonesian president will meet some of the leading U.S. venture-capital and technology companies during a stop in Silicon Valley, aimed at drumming up investment and interest in Southeast Asia’s largest economy.

A Chinese agency has asked some foreign tech companies to commit to security standards, ahead of a China-U.S. summit where cybersecurity will be high on the agenda.

Alibaba plans to invest about $4.5 billion in Chinese electronics retailer Suning, which could help the e-commerce giant beef up its logistics operations for faster deliveries

Sony’s shock capital raising risks the credibility it has built up with investors over the past year.

Cisco Systems said it will make investments and partnerships worth more than $10 billion in China as the networking-gear maker looks to strengthen its position in the market.

To get an idea of how the mobile Web is catapulting millions of people into the digital age by skipping landline connections, have a look at Vietnam.

Teen YouTuber Amos Yee’s trial on charges of disparaging Christians is showcasing Singapore’s struggle to adapt its tradition of censorship for the digital era.

China’s Internet regulators announced more explicit rules for monitoring content on online news portals, demonstrating Beijing’s increasing willingness to discuss its censorship openly.

China’s top Internet regulator threatened to shut down the news services of Sina, one of China’s most popular social media and online news companies.

Indian classified-advertising site Quikr has raised $150 million from investors in a deal that values the company at $1 billion.

Hon Hai, the major iPhone assembler also known as Foxconn, reported its highest earnings growth in five years.

Indian e-commerce firm Snapdeal.com is looking to raise up to $1 billion of fresh capital from investors including Foxconn, potentially making the startup the country’s second most valuable at nearly $7 billion.

Japanese electronics company Sharp may survive another brush with death, but it still lacks a convincing turnaround plan.