There's an app for that: Four apps for specific tasks

Dayima: A menstruation management app for females. It records women's monthly periods and offers a reminder when their ovulation periods come and go. The app has a couples-version for women and their partners. Users can get customized information or advertisements for their health and body care based on their recorded menstruation periods. It tops the list of apps on health.

New app could consolidate meeting planning

As young entrepreneurs jostle into the mobile Web market to woo individual users, Eventown, a company that offers web-based and mobile-web services for site selection and management of meetings, is trying to transform the meetings-service industry by providing services for business clients.

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Local governments lower sights for growth

Few achieved GDP targets in 2014; resource producers, heavy industrial bases hit hardest

Sands China Q4 profit drops 15%

Giant casino operator still plans to open fifth Macao site, reports

Super rich continue to cut back on gifting

China's super rich continued being thriftier in their gift giving last year, in line with the government's national frugality campaign, according to the latest Hurun Report published by the Shanghai-based magazine that documents the lives of the wealthy.

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Highlights from the briefing

1.china will over time reduce export quotas for metals to comply with a World Trade Organization ruling that these curbs are discriminatory.

High-tech exports face trade barriers

Trade frictions dented exports of high-tech products and become a new concern for China and its trading partners last year, a top official said on Thursday.

Setting course for business growth

Greechair woman says it will never pursue short-term goals, such as scaling up in size

Home appliance makers take the online route for growth

Online sales have helped Chinese home appliance makers, especially air conditioner manufacturers achieve sustained business growth amid an industrial slowdown last year, according to a new industry report.