Bloomberg Leaders of Apple Inc., Google and other US technology giants were expected to head to China to pursue a familiar goal: To do more business in the world’s most populous nation. The effort has had mixed results, at best, in the past. With a trade war brewing between the world’s two largest economies, the goal has gotten loftier still. ...

Bloomberg India considers ensuring timely delivery of food for millions of poor more important than heeding to concerns over privacy, the country’s top law officer said while defending the biometric identity programme. India’s Attorney General K.K. Venugopal told the Supreme Court the unique digital identity program, called Aadhaar, “an enabler” to ensure food and other subsidies reach the poor and ...

Bloomberg European Union leaders demanded a permanent EU exclusion from US President Donald Trump’s metal-import tariffs and kept alive a threat to retaliate, highlighting persistent risks of a trans-Atlantic trade war. Citing national security, Trump imposed duties of 25 percent on steel and 10 percent on aluminum while granting a five-week waiver to the EU, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Australia ...