Huawei Technologies Co. shipped more than 100 million smartphones this year as a drive to attract higher-end customers helped defy an industry slowdown that hit rival Chinese vendors.
As mobile phone penetration reaches deeper into China, the industry regulator is stepping up efforts to ensure that the valuable real estate on smartphone screens is reserved for apps consumers really want.
Last year witnessed explosive growth in smartwatches and this year, competition may intensify in terms of their external appearances. For, their core part, that is, the operating system or OS space, is dominated by just a couple of international majors.
In 2001, just a few days after the "911" attacks, Li Jian, then an executive with a theme park, visited the United States and met Peter Schnabel, then a founder of Premier Rides Inc. He was impressed by the roller coaster Premier Rides sold to Disney California Adventure.
For the past 23 years, Raymund Chao, 54, chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers Greater China, has been working in the country with the network that offers professional services like auditing, assurance, tax and management consulting. As its leader, he is now keen the company must make a difference to the community.
Female ballet dancers could be at risk of being left behind thanks to the "Billy Elliot effect", Darcey Bussell has suggested, as she claimed dance schools are now inundated with more boys than girls.
Oh, how Sheffield Theatres will miss Daniel Evans. The outgoing artistic director, recently announced as the new head of Chichester Festival Theatre, has an assured reputation for copper-bottomed productions of classic musicals.
Over their nine-album career, Welsh band Stereophonics have written a handful of stone-cold-classic rock songs. Anthems such as A Thousand Trees, Dakota and Traffic are copper-bottomed, Class A earworms.
Storage centers use innovative methods to bring in the numbers
Though sperm donation is gaining ground in China, fears about potential incest and other social taboos are keeping many potential donors away from the clinics, say experts.
Manchester United captain Wayne Rooney declared on Thursday that he and his teammates are "fighting" to save the job of embattled manager Louis van Gaal.
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