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Cliched undoubtedly, but the early bird did catch the Apple worm and fortune did favor those who braved Friday's cold and rain with a trendy gadget called iPhone.
Australia's Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) on Friday approved the acquisition by China's largest steel maker of up to 19.99 percent of coal miner and iron ore explorer Aquila Resources.
Video websites are now targeting the mobile video market to shore up revenue and complement their traditional PC video services even as 3G networks have started to make further inroads in the country.
China unveiled its fastest supercomputer yesterday, which at its peak speed can do more than one quadrillion calculations per second, known as a petaflop.
In China's 3G-market arena, China Mobile has always been the front-runner. It was the first carrier to launch 3G services, the first to run an online application store, and the first to release its own mobile operating system.
SHANGHAI: Geely Automobile, whose shares soared yesterday after being named the "preferred bidder" for Ford's Volvo unit, could win a valuable brand if the bid succeeds, but could take years to see profits from the loss-making Swedish carmaker.
The chief architect for the new headquarters of China's state broadcaster said preparations are under way to begin reconstruction soon on part of the complex that was burned in a massive fire triggered by illegal fireworks display earlier this year.
General Motors Co expects China's car market to grow by around 10 percent next year even without government incentives and maintain its position as the world's top car market for a long time, a senior executive said.
Chinese company Golden Dragon (GD) opened a $100-million copper pipe plant on Wednesday in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila, the biggest investment ever by a Chinese manufacturer in Mexico.
China on Wednesday approved a feasibility report on the construction of a bridge linking its economic hub Guangdong to Hong Kong and Macao, a move widely expected to improve economic efficiency in the affluent Pearl River Delta.
The Chinese textile and garment industry has started sprouting green shoots of recovery even as it grapples with an acute labor shortage, riding largely on the revitalization plan charted by the government for the sector.
Hong Kong Resources Holdings Ltd, the gold company that has jumped fivefold in market value in the past year, said jewelry sales in the mainland will climb at a "double-digit" pace this year.
