Producers of gaming consoles are clearly looking far beyond providing just games, as they include sport and education-related functions in their offerings.
Despite the ever-changing dining scene in Shanghai, some Western-style restaurants kept serving their original dishes throughout the decades. The classic tastes they serve are still the favorite of loyal clients, who are known as laokela.
The state of China's government finances do not normally grab the headlines amid the economic data emanating from the world's second-largest economy.
Sony Corp's PlayStation 4 debuted in China on March 20 with few games and bare-bone online services as the company navigates tight censorship rules to get a toehold in the world's biggest gaming market.
Most expats in Shanghai either use or at least know of Sherpa's, the food delivery service launched by Michigan's Mark Secchia in 1999.
Getting an alcohol license is easy in Shanghai but finding a premium location can be a battle, as the co-founders of Fortune Cookie discovered. It claims to be the first and only American-Chinese food restaurant in China.
In 1939, Charles E. Merrill and Winthrop H. Smith came up with a radical idea for investing: democratize the stock marketing and bring "Wall Street to Main Street". Together they created a company that would earn the trust of small investors by putting their client's interest first. To achieve this they set down a series of guidelines for employees that came to be known as the Principles. While the rest of Wall Street scoffed, Merrill and Smith put their idea into action. Merrill Lynch expanded capital markets and fueled the growth of the American economy after World War II.
Today's businesses pour millions into metrics for tracking and analyzing leading indicators of business growth such as customer satisfaction, net promoter score. But what if increases in these customer loyalty metrics do not translate into growth? An outside-the-box question, and precisely the one that the authors of the book sought to answer in their landmark research, originally published in the Harvard Business Review and the MIT Sloan Management Review.
I was about to board my flight from Beijing to Egypt when I happened to read the news that two bombs had been found in Cairo international airport and a homemade bomb exploded in central Cairo the day before.
Before I flew to Muscat, capital city of Oman, it had been most commonly described to me as "quiet". Upon arriving at Muscat airport at midnight I immediately understood why.
Cumulative investment quota of $1 billion for QFII program likely to see further revisions
Apple Inc is planning to introduce a trade-in program for the iPhones in China after a similar program bolstered sales in the United States.
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