Bloomberg India has become the first nation to subsidize the use of digital cash after the government unveiled a raft of measures including discounts on online payments for insurance policies, rail tickets and highway toll charges. Exactly 30 days after junking existing high-value 500 and 1,000 rupee notes, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley sought to draw Indians toward digital payments …

  Bloomberg Dutch electronics giant Philips announced on Monday the sale of a majority share in its Lumileds LED lighting business for $1.5 billion, after cancelling the spinoff earlier this year over US regulatory concerns. “Royal Philips announced that it has signed an agreement to sell an 80.1-percent interest in Lumileds to certain funds managed by affiliates of (US-based) Apollo …

  Bloomberg Maropost Inc., a Canadian marketing technology startup, is nipping at the heels of Salesforce.com Inc. and Oracle Corp., going from zero to C$30 million ($23 million) in revenue in just three years. The Toronto-based firm sells software that makes it easier for companies to set up and run online marketing campaigns, competing directly with some of the products …