Bloomberg Sharp Corp.’s US legal battle with Hisense Electric Co. marks the start of an aggressive new campaign by the Japanese electronics company to obtain royalties on its patents as the company focuses on ultra-high-resolution televisions and “smart home” devices. The Osaka-based Sharp plans to be more assertive when it comes to demanding patent royalties and may even start filing ...

Bloomberg General Insurance Corp., India’s largest reinsurer, and its owner will seek as much as 113.7 billion rupees ($1.7 billion) after setting terms for the third-biggest initial public offering on record in the South Asian nation. GIC will offer 17.2 million new shares at 855 rupees to 912 rupees apiece, according to advertisement published on Wednesday in the Financial Express ...

Bloomberg Surging bids for Singapore land aren’t sustainable in a market constrained by demographics and the government’s cooling measures, according to the head of a developers’ association. “It is not sustainable to continue at this rate,” Augustine Tan, president of the Real Estate Developers’ Association of Singapore, said on Wednesday. “With property measures in place, slow growth in Singapore’s population ...