Bloomberg Facebook Inc.’s apps and websites are still blocked in China, but that’s not stopping the social media giant from trying to open a center in the country to support local startups. Facebook set up a Chinese subsidiary, Facebook Technology (Hang Zhou) Ltd., earlier this month, according to a filing with the National Enterprise Credit Information Publicity System. The subsidiary, ...

Bloomberg SoftBank Group Corp. plans to announce within days that it will start a mobile digital payments service in Japan by the end of 2018 as billionaire founder Masayoshi Son seeks to expand in the sector, people familiar with the matter said. The service, a collaboration with Indian startup Paytm, will make extensive use of artificial intelligence for mobile payments ...

Bloomberg As investors sell Chinese health-care stocks in the wake of a vaccine scandal, one top-performing fund manager sees a chance to buy more. The broad selloff in the sector will likely be temporary as investors overreacted and “wrongly implicated” many stocks, said Wang Chaowei, who manages 866 million yuan ($127 million) for CPIC Fund Management Co. One of his ...