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Article | 26/07/2011 Zynga partners with Tencent to launch game in China

U.S. social game developer Zynga has partnered with one of China's largest Internet companies, Tencent, to bring its popular CityVille game to the cou...

Article | 26/07/2011 China's Baidu revenues gets boost from advertisers

China’s largest search engine Baidu posted strong earnings for the second quarter, driven by growing traffic and increased spending by advertising cus...

Article | 22/07/2011 HTC unveils smartphone for Chinese Twitter-like service

After announcing smartphones with a dedicated Facebook button, HTC is trying the same formula in China. This time it will have a button connecting to ...

Article | 21/07/2011 Acer to buy U.S. cloud technology provider iGware

Acer said Thursday it plans to acquire iGware, a cloud technology company in the U.S., for US$320 million, as part of a plan to allow users to more ea...

Article | 21/07/2011 Foxconn worker falls to death in suspected suicide

An employee of Foxconn fell to his death in China earlier this week, just a year after a string of suicides at its facilities in the country.

Article | 20/07/2011 Apple's China sales up six-fold in fiscal third quarter

Apple believes it is just "scratching the surface" of the Chinese market, as the company's revenue from the country for the quarter ended June 25 incr...

Article | 19/07/2011 China reaches 485 million Internet users as growth slows

China added 27 million Internet users over the last six months, bringing the total number to 485 million, but the growth of China's Internet populatio...

Article | 19/07/2011 Baidu strikes deal to pay record companies for music

China's leading search engine Baidu will now pay three major record companies for music downloads on its site, after years of facing criticism for hos...

Article | 18/07/2011 Baidu offers beta version of its own web browser

China's largest search engine, Baidu, has begun offering downloads of its new Internet browser, which boasts its own collection of 30,000" apps" that ...

Article | 18/07/2011 Acer to boost its smartphone, tablet presence in China

Acer has created a new mobile devices business group for China, with the aim of tapping the country's growing smartphone and tablet market.

Article | 15/07/2011 Apple offers App Store seven-day refund policy for Taiwan

Apple has amended its App Store policy in Taiwan, allowing customers to receive a refund within seven days of buying a product after a demand by Taipe...

Article | 15/07/2011 China Unicom to release new smartphone line this month

China Unicom's new smartphone line, which is set to rival Apple's iPhone and Android handsets in China, will go on sale in the country later this mont...

Article | 14/07/2011 Alibaba introduces image matching service for clothes

Chinese shoppers can now upload photos of clothing to a new service launched this week from Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group that finds matching...

Article | 11/07/2011 China unveils another supercomputer -- but not its fastest

China has built another supercomputer using the same technology as the Tianhe-1A system, which reigned briefly as the world's most powerful supercompu...

Article | 30/06/2011 Worm hits popular Chinese Twitter-like service

A popular Twitter-like service in China with <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/227714/chinaand8217s_sina_benefits_from_surge_in_m...