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Article | 27/09/2011 Lenovo forms JV with Compal to build new PC factory

PC vendor Lenovo has formed a joint venture with laptop contract manufacturer Compal Electronics to build and operate a new factory in China, as part ...

Article | 26/09/2011 Apple held talks with Chinese environmental groups

Apple held talks with Chinese environmental groups earlier this month after the US tech giant was criticized for using manufacturers accused of pollut...

Article | 26/09/2011 Huawei unveils new Honor smartphone with long battery life

Chinese mobile phone manufacturer Huawei announced a new Android smartphone that the company says has a battery life of up to three days on a single c...

Article | 23/09/2011 ZTE launches first smartphone in the US through Cricket

Mobile carrier Cricket announced on Thursday it will start selling the ZTE Score, the first smartphone from Chinese telecommunications equipment suppl...

Article | 23/09/2011 Apple opens new store in Shanghai

Apple is opening this week stores in Shanghai and Hong Kong, taking the total number of its stores in China to six.

Article | 21/09/2011 Huawei's MediaPad to arrive in US by year's end

Huawei's 7-inch tablet will be launched in the U.S. during this year's fourth quarter, according to a company spokeswoman.

Article | 17/09/2011 Pledge asks Chinese hackers to reject cybertheft

Two prominent Chinese hackers have released a convention calling for the rejection of cybertheft and are asking their peers to support it, as China is...

Article | 15/09/2011 Match.com buys stake in Chinese dating site

Match.com announced on Wednesday it had acquired a 20 percent stake in a company behind one of China's largest online dating sites.

Article | 15/09/2011 Blocked from China, Twitter goes after overseas Chinese

Twitter plans to offer a Chinese-language user interface <a href="http://blog.twitter.com/2011/09/one-hundred-million-voices.html">in the coming weeks...

Article | 15/09/2011 Huawei's MediaPad tablet slated for China release in Oct

Huawei's 7-inch tablet, which it unveiled in June, will be released in China and several other markets in the Asia-Pacific region in October, accordin...

Article | 13/09/2011 Google launches group deals aggregator in China

Google has launched a new portal in China that catalogs group buying deals, a return to activity there after pulling back from its operations in China...

Article | 12/09/2011 China's Alibaba takes aim at Baidu in Internet search

China's largest e-commerce company Alibaba Group entered the search engine business so that China's leading search engine, Baidu, wouldn't sleep well,...

Article | 9/09/2011 Lenovo expects to beat Dell in PC sales by year's end

Lenovo's chairman believes the company will overtake Dell to become the world's second-largest PC vendor by the end of this year.

Article | 7/09/2011 Google says China has renewed its content provider license

The Chinese government has renewed Google's Internet Content Provider (ICP) license, a company spokesman said, giving the company another year to oper...

Article | 6/09/2011 Apple plans to open Hong Kong store later this quarter

Apple plans to open its first retail store in Hong Kong later this quarter, according to a company spokeswoman.