Bloomberg China has the economic power to move markets, and it isn’t afraid to use it. South Korean stock trading offered a case in point, with a selloff in hotels, cosmetic makers and other tourism-related companies that made the country’s benchmark the worst performer among Asian equity markets. The slide followed a Yonhap news agency report on China ordering ...

  Bloomberg Mobile World Congress, the premier wireless-technology conference in Barcelona, was supposed to be a coming out party for Google’s digital assistant. But at this year’s proceedings, artificially intelligent voice-based service struggled to be heard above the din of an army of rival assistants that will jostle for attention on smartphones. As the event kicked off, the search giant ...

  Bloomberg Auto insurance may be on the brink of an incursion from mobile-phone and technology companies. Telefonica SA’s O2 unit — one of the first mobile operators in Britain to offer car insurance — expanded its product line in February to include telematics boxes, which track people’s driving habits and can lead to cheaper premiums for youngsters. That’s stoking ...