Internet: Netizens sue 360buy over 1 yuan trips

Angry customers have gone to court seeking redress against one of China's biggest Internet retailers after the company failed to provide sightseeing trips for 1 yuan (16 cents).

"We have submitted the case to Shanghai Jinshan District People's Court on behalf of dozens of customers demanding that 360buy, one of China's largest onl...

Posted on 31 March 2012 | 12:36 pm

China Satellite TV will reach 200 million rural households

DIRECT-BROADCAST, a satellite TV service, will replace wireless signals for about 200 million rural families in China by 2015.

A pilot project has gone smoothly in Ningxia, Hebei and Inner Mongolia, in the north and northwest of China, since April, according to Zhang Haitao, deputy director of the State Administration of ...

Posted on 6 September 2011 | 4:08 pm

Internet: Sina's Tudou stake will help Weibo.com

SINA Corp, operator of China's most popular microblogging site, said it has bought 9.05 percent in China's second largest video site Tudou as it seeks to improve the attractiveness of its Weibo.com site to lure more users.

Sina paid US$66.4 million for the stake in Tudou, according to a filing to the United States Securitie...

Posted on 31 August 2011 | 12:01 pm

Media: DreamWorks, Youku in 'Panda' deal

DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc reached an agreement letting the Chinese Internet-video company Youku.com Inc distribute its two "Kung Fu Panda" movies, marking the first time the computer-animation studio's films will be available online in China, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Posted on 30 August 2011 | 1:01 pm

Groupon: Website staff in compensation talks

AROUND 50 employees of a group-buying website who were laid off on Friday are meeting with bosses today to try to agree compensation.

Management at Gaopeng, a joint-venture in China with Groupon, informed around 100 of its Shanghai workforce of between 300 and 400 that they had lost their jobs.

Microblog: Weibo may generate cash in H1

SINA.COM, operator of China's most popular microblogging platform Weibo.com, plans to make money from the service as early as the first half of 2012 and will continue investing in the microblogging service to cement its market position.

Sina, which also operates one of the leading Chinese web portals, said profit plunge...

Posted on 19 August 2011 | 8:17 pm

Mobile: Nokia, China Mobile open the Windows

Nokia Corp plans to introduce phones using Microsoft Corp's Windows operating system, based on China Mobile Ltd's self-developed third generation (3G) mobile networks in the near future, said the company's executive vice-president on Friday.

Colin Giles, executive vice-president of Nokia Corp, who is in charge of the company's g...

Posted on 17 August 2011 | 1:25 pm

Information Tech: IT lags business growth at SOEs

Expert: 'Major revolution is imminent' in data handling and computing systems

State-owned enterprises (SOEs) will need to make sweeping improvements in their information technology (IT) over the next five years to meet rising global business demands, said a high-tech expert with the central government...

Posted on 16 August 2011 | 8:57 pm

M-Commerce: HTC, Unionpay target mobile wallets

China UnionPay Co Ltd announced on Tuesday the launch of the first smartphone with built-in mobile payment capability, jumping ahead of domestic rivals in the world's most populous mobile phone country.

China UnionPay, the country's sole bank card processor, said the world's first mobile phone that supports UnionPay's mobile pay...

Posted on 11 August 2011 | 8:50 pm

Internet-Automotive: Baidu Drives Internet Search Cooperation With BMW In China

Chinese search engine company Baidu Inc. and the German luxury car maker BMW have signed an agreement to jointly develop and operate technical products related to in-car information system search services.

The cooperation between Baidu and BMW attempts to expand the Internet services to the vehicle platforms to allow more ca...

Posted on 10 August 2011 | 5:03 pm

Internet: Tudou sets IPO plan on track

TUDOU, China's second-largest video website, looks set to finally list in the United States after its initial public offering plan was interrupted for more than half a year because of a divorce case involving its founder and Chief Executive Gary Wang.

Tudou aims to sell 5.6 million ...

Posted on 5 August 2011 | 12:45 pm

Internet: Alibaba settles row with Yahoo and Softbank

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd reached an agreement on Friday with Yahoo! Inc and Softbank Corp, its largest shareholders, ending a four-month spat over how to compensate investors after an ownership change in China's most popular online-payment service.

Alibaba, which transferred the Alipay unit to a company controlled ...

Posted on 1 August 2011 | 3:58 pm

3G Mobile: Huawei 'makes first cloud-computing phone'

The connection between Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, China's biggest telecom equipment maker by revenue, and Italian Supercoppa (Italian Super Cup), does not only rest on the fact they share the same birth year.

Established in the southern coastal city of Shenz...

Posted on 1 August 2011 | 3:46 pm

Personal Computer: Lenovo buys German PC firm

LENOVO Group Ltd yesterday said European authorities have approved its plan to acquire a German computer and consumer-electronics maker for 231 million euros (US$334 million) in a deal that could double the Chinese firm's market share in Germany.

China's largest personal computer maker will acquire a 36.66 percent stake from Me...

Posted on 28 July 2011 | 12:06 pm

HTC unveils new tablet PC

Taiwan-based smartphone maker HTC Corp unveiled its first tablet computer, HTC Flyer, on the Chinese mainland on Thursday, and analysts said its price is higher than expected, which could make it hard to challenge Apple Inc's dominant position in the market.

The HTC Flyer, priced at 5,500 yuan ($852), will be launched at the end o...

Posted on 24 July 2011 | 12:16 am

Mobile China: More growth expected in 3G

THE number of 3G phone users in China is close to 10 percent of the country's total mobile phone user base, and this figure is viewed as the point at which 3G is expected to grow rapidly in the next few years, the top industry regulator said yesterday.

Even as 3G is set to surge, China plans to issue 4G licenses af...

Posted on 22 July 2011 | 10:19 am

iPAD / Education: Professor's iPad requirement, dismissive tone stir a tempest

A local university teacher has created an uproar by telling his students to bring iPads to class and advising those without the device to give up choosing his class, which he called "a luxury."

His comments on Weibo stirred heated debate and many criticized him for looking down on the poor. University authorities have begun looking into the case after yesterday's public outcry and said they will ban the unreasonable requirement if...

Posted on 19 July 2011 | 10:56 am

Telecommunication: ZTE boosts investment in Brazil

ZTE Corp plans to invest "several hundred million" dollars in Brazil to make the region its biggest overseas manufacturing base for handsets and tablet computers, China's biggest listed telecommunications equipment maker said yesterday.

Shenzhen-listed ZTE - now the world's No. 5 handset vendor - also plans to double its mobile pho...

Posted on 13 July 2011 | 5:09 pm

China Gov. will not shut down Google and Microsoft online mapping services

China's industry regulator will not shut down online mapping services provided by Google Inc and Microsoft Corp, the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping said on Friday.

The remarks - the first time the regulator has firmly denied that it intended to close the companies' online mapping services - has banished concerns that Google...

Posted on 9 July 2011 | 3:19 pm

4G Mobile: Sony Ericsson, China Mobile to develop 4G phones

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB will cooperate with China Mobile Holdings Ltd to develop mobile phones that support China's domestic fourth-generation telecommunications technology, Sony Ericsson's global president said.

Bert Nordberg, president and chief executive officer of Sony Ericsson Mobile, said the compa...

Posted on 7 July 2011 | 10:11 am