Asia

Deteriorating sentiment towards early-stage tech companies has punished the German e-commerce incubator--whatever the valuation fundamentals.

Alibaba posted its best quarter since going public but spending on pet projects caused big losses for the Chinese e-commerce company.

The Japanese mobile internet company plans to start a transportation service that uses self-driving buses, its latest push into autonomous driving.

A top aide to Robin Li, chief executive of China’s dominant search engine Baidu, is stepping aside, as the company tries to reduce its dependence on search-related revenue.

A top Chinese venture capital fund raised $260 million worth of fresh capital from global investors, increasing the amount of money set to flow into local startups as valuations in the country stall.

The boards of Sharp and Foxconn approved a plan for the Taiwanese electronics assembler to take over the struggling Japanese company for about $3.5 billion after an 11th hour Sharp disclosure almost scuttled the deal.

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.