China Internet Network Information Center recently published its 31st Internet survey report, stating that by the end of December 2012, the number of Internet users in China had reached 564 million and the Internet penetration rate was 42.1%, which was 3.8 percentage points higher than 2011.
Chinese Internet company Renren Inc. will adjust its organizational structure and business clusters, and establish an independent wireless business division.
China’s Game Industry Annual Conference 2012 was just held in Suzhou and the comprehensive Chinese game industry report for 2012 was released during the conference.
Chinese Internet company Tencent revealed that Zheng Jingwei, former chief operating officer of AdChina, has joined Tencent as general manager for the advertising platform unit of the networking media group.
An internal email from Chinese Web portal Sina.com has revealed structural changes at the company, including the establishment of a portal technology department.
Mogo, a Chinese mobile advertising platform, revealed to the local media that it has formed a strategic partnership with Aliyun, the cloud platform of Alibaba Group, to jointly provide one-stop solutions to application developers.
Aiming at more operating revenue from smartphone users, Chinese telecom operator China Mobile announced the launch of its mobile TV service named UTV in Hong Kong.
Alibaba’s cloud computing platform’s five systems, including cloud computing, large-scale storage, cloud network, data crunching, and Yun OS, will be integrated and renamed the Feitian platform.
Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple, revealed at the conference call for the fourth financial quarter that Apple’s performance in the Greater China market was very good during the reporting period and the company plans to launch its latest iPhone 5 in mainland China in December 2012.
Chinese telecom operator China Mobile will soon launch its TD-LTE mobile phone user tests, and the first batch of TD-LTE devices will be available in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Hangzhou.
Taiwan’s Chunghwa Telecom plans to expand its Wi-Fi international roaming service map and will cooperate with Hong Kong’s Y5ZONE to add 6,500 Wi-Fi hot spots in Hong Kong.
Chinese third-party Internet payment service provider Alipay.com and the health consulting and medical treatment guidance platform 95169.com have reached a deal to provide Internet hospital registration services to users of Alipay.com.
Chinese telecom operator China Mobile announced the formal launch of a new Internet information security operating center in Luoyang, provincial capital of Henan.
Harry Shum, Microsoft’s global senior vice president in charge of the development of the company’s global search engine, announced that a new version is now available for Bing Chinese search, Cn.bing.com.
Chinese social networking site Kaixin001.com recently published its software client for smart TV, which will be pre-installed on smart TV products manufactured by Samsung, Haier, and Hisense.
Social networking site Renren.com announced that it will work with Singapore game developer Nubee to jointly provide Nubee’s Japan Life to users of Renren.com in China.
Chinese search engine Baidu and TCL jointly announced the launch of a new TCL smartphone S710, which will have Baidu’s cloud smart terminal platform.
Chinese lifestyle and restaurant information listings website Dianping.com has confirmed to local media that the company has completed its latest round of financing of USD60 million.
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has announced plans to acquire the MSNLite team, which will focus on the research and development of the PC version of Xiaomi’s instant messaging application after the acquisition.
Alibaba Group’s collective buying subsidiary Juhuasuan.com and Internet payment subsidiary Alipay.com have formed alliance with Focus Media to jointly develop the Chinese online to offline market.
China Mobile International Limited and America’s Clearwire jointly announced that the two companies have signed a memorandum of understanding for the opening of TD-LTE international roaming services between China and America.
Chinese Internet shopping website Taobao.com has launched an application store under the domain App.taobao.com.
Microsoft and Alipay.com have signed a strategic letter of intent in Beijing, stating that the two parties will jointly develop and distribute services to enhance Internet security and privacy protection for Chinese users.
Chinese telecom operator China Mobile has realized two-way roaming between the TD-LTE network in Hangzhou and LTE FDD network in Hong Kong.
Chinese telecom operator China Unicom announced that following a period of trial operation, its official flagship store on the e-commerce website Taobao.com has formally launched, making it China Unicom’s second largest Internet store.
UCWeb, Chinese provider of mobile Internet software technology and browser services, confirmed that the company has acquired 9game.cn, a mobile games platform, and it plans to build an open platform for mobile Internet games.
Chinese Internet company Tencent revealed in its financial report for the first quarter of 2012 that the company acquired a 13.84% stake in KakaoTalk, a South Korean mobile communication application, for CNY403 million.
Shen Xiaotong, chief financial officer of Ku6.com, has resigned due to personal reasons, and Feng Jie, the company’s vice president for finance, will temporarily command the CFO position.
