FACEBOOK PHILIPPINES is targeting more user activity as it welcomes the new year, with more than 70 million Filipinos already in its platforms.

THE USAGE of emerging digital payments solutions is expected to pick up further in 2019, displacing legacy payment options such as cash and credit cards, an analytics software firm predicted.

SUNNY OPTICAL Technology Group Co. was set to end 2018 as one of Hong Kong’s biggest losers, an unnerving fall for a smartphone parts-maker that minted millionaires out of janitors and chefs during a remarkable decade-long run. Some are betting it’ll be back to its winning ways before 2019 is over.

CHINA HAS approved 80 new video game titles in the first batch of licenses granted by the media regulator after the end of a nine-month freeze.

SONY CORP., the biggest maker of camera chips used in smartphones, is boosting production of next-generation 3D sensors after getting interest from customers including Apple Inc.

SEOUL -- When Choi Ba-da pitched his car-sharing firm Luxi to Hyundai Motor officials in 2017, he told them there would be no future for South Korea’s top automaker if it failed to embrace emerging technologies.

EDUCATION AND innovation are needed in staying ahead of cyber attackers in the emerging gig economy, said content delivery network (CDN) and cloud service provider Akamai Technologies, Inc.

FACEBOOK INC. is working on making a cryptocurrency that will let users transfer money on its WhatsApp messaging app, focusing first on the remittances market in India, according to people familiar with the matter.

BEIJING/SHANGHAI — On the sidewalks of Shanghai and Beijing, once bright-yellow Ofo bicycles lie in varying states of disrepair — chains unhooked, wheels buckled and paint starting to fade — reflecting the quick rise and sharp fall of the Chinese bike-sharing start-up.

IT’S THAT time of year — our planet has made its trip around the sun and as we close out 2018, we look ahead and think about the possibilities for 2019.And we’re closing in on the next decade of innovation that takes us into 2030, where we at Dell Technologies predict we’ll realize the next era of Human-Machine Partnerships — where we will be immersed in smart living, intelligent work, and a frictionless economy.

BANKS ARE starting to partner with financial technology (fintech) companies as they realize the potential of these emerging firms in the financial services industry, McKinsey & Co. said.

BEIJING/SHANGHAI -- Cai Li, a janitor in Shanghai, developed a serious addiction to news app Qutoutiao, lured by gossipy articles about celebrities and the cash she gets from reading them.