Videos, KOLs make apps profitable

Yixia Tech, a Beijing-based firm that operates Yizhibo, an online video service in the mold of YouTube, has teamed up with Chinese social media giant Weibo to add a new dimension to the world of app-based business.

E-shopping in the age of online celebrity

A critic of evolutionary psychology or sociobiology, Anne Innis Dagg wrote a book entitled 'Love of Shopping' Is Not a Gene, but I sometimes wonder if she had got it all wrong.

Lighting the world with green tech

If light is the way to dispel darkness, then a Beijing-based, 1995-founded company is showing the world there is an environmentally friendly, relatively cheaper and energy-efficient way of doing that and, in the process, growing a global-scale business.

Bayer lauds China's impact on clinical development, research

China's emphasis on innovation in recent years has led to more opportunities for global clinical development and research programs to be carried out in the country, which has benefitted its people, said the executive of a leading German pharmaceutical company.

Giving diabetes solutions IT edge

As China increases its efforts to provide low-cost and effective medical services through healthcare reforms, all market players including foreign companies will benefit, said Andrew Hodge, president and general manager for the China affiliate of the US-based drug maker Eli Lilly and Company.

On the move

Yu Yongfu to head Alibaba investment unit

Driving the game to a new era

Golf's revival in China has gained a major boost with a 300 million yuan ($45 million) investment to drive the once-suspended PGA Tour China series to new heights.

Streaking Rockets jump on Jazz

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah - James Harden and the Houston Rockets are defined by their explosive offense, and it got the best of the Utah Jazz on Thursday night.

Buzzer-beater lifts Lakers over Sixers

PHILADELPHIA - When LaVar Ball started taunting Philly fans in the fourth quarter, it only turned up the volume on an already raucous atmosphere on Thursday night.

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Ronaldo's high-five celebration

PARIS - A decade of dominance by the world's two best soccer players has left Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi tied with five Ballon d'Or awards each.

AI to boost industrial upgrading

Artificial intelligence will inject new impetus to traditional sectors such as automobile and healthcare, as the cutting-edge technology is ready to revolutionize the way people communicate with machines, company executives said on Thursday.