Bloomberg Fosun Group, the Chinese conglomerate that owns Club Med and Cirque du Soleil, is betting on new technology to boost its foray into the feature film industry, backing a Studio 8 Iraq war movie to be shown at five times the standard frame rate. Filmed at 120 frames-per-second, the $48 million “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk” is set ...

  Tokyo / AFP Some of the world’s top trading firms have agreed to build a faster data transmission network between Chicago and Tokyo, according to a person familiar with the matter, a move that would accelerate trading between two of the major centers of finance. The roster of firms in the joint venture — dubbed Go West — includes ...

  Bloomberg Microsoft Corp. researchers want to give patients and doctors a new tool in the quest to find cancers earlier: web searches. Lung cancer can be detected a year prior to current methods of diagnosis in more than one-third of cases by analyzing a patient’s internet searches for symptoms and demographic data that put them at higher risk, according ...