BLOOMBERG Alphabet Inc’s Google is set to appoint a manufacturing and policy veteran as its top government affairs executive in India to tackle legal challenges and expand hardware assembly to the country. Sreenivasa Reddy, currently a senior engineering executive at Microsoft Corp, is likely to join Google towards the end of this year, people familiar with the matter said, asking …

BLOOMBERG Billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s group announced an internet-enabled phone at an entry price of 999 rupees ($12) as the oil-to-retail conglomerate seeks to poach more budget device users from rivals to its growing consumer offerings. India’s No 1 wireless carrier Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd will start beta trials for the first 1 million ‘Jio Bharat’ phones from July 7, according …

BLOOMBERG Malaysia is working on streamlining the roles of its investment promotion agencies to improve the ease of doing business in the country and speed up business approvals, according to the Trade Minister Zafrul Abdul Aziz. The trade ministry’s goal is to provide investors with a “simple journey” by defining clear roles and responsibilities for each approving authority, Zafrul said …