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Article | 27/05/2011 Alibaba's online payment service granted Chinese license

The online payment service at the center of a dispute between Yahoo and Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group has been granted a license by Chinese a...

Article | 26/05/2011 Lenovo profits more than double for fiscal year

Reporting strong growth as it expands into emerging markets, Lenovo said Thursday that for the quarter ending in March its net profit more than triple...

Article | 26/05/2011 China's Baidu is working on a multi-language search platform

Chinese search engine Baidu is working on a multi-language platform for markets outside China, senior vice president Shen Haoyu said on Thursday.

Article | 26/05/2011 LinkedIn explores opportunities in China

LinkedIn is exploring opportunities in China, a market with 100 million working professionals that the business networking site believes it can attrac...

Article | 25/05/2011 China reaches 900 million mobile phone users

China has become the first country to reach 900 million cell phone users, according to government statistics.

Article | 24/05/2011 Opinion divided on impact on iPad of Foxconn blast

Opinion is divided on whether a blast on Friday at a Foxconn factory in Chengdu, China will affect the production of Apple’s iPads

Article | 24/05/2011 Intel moves top executive to lead China unit

Intel is bringing one of its top executives to China, in a move that is meant to bolster the company's strategy in a country set to become the world's...

Article | 23/05/2011 Lawsuit claims Cisco aided Chinese repression

Members of the Falun Gong group claim Cisco knew that Internet technology it supplied to China would be used to crack down on the religious movement i...

Article | 23/05/2011 Three dead after Foxconn factory blast, Apple investigating

A third employee had died from injuries caused by an explosion at a factory of Foxconn in Chengdu, China, the company said Sunday. Initial findings sh...

Article | 20/05/2011 Future iPhone will support China Mobile's 4G network

Future versions of Apple's iPhone will support China Mobile's fourth generation (4G) network, China's largest mobile carrier said, a sign that it will...

Article | 20/05/2011 China's Great Firewall a big inconvenience: shoe thrower

The man who threw a shoe at the architect of China's Internet censorship systems on Thursday, said he did so because the censorship has made his life ...

Article | 19/05/2011 Gaming firms must sail past China's pirates to cash in

Although the game was developed in the U.S., the concept behind Plants vs. Zombies knows no cultural bounds for Chinese fans like 27-year-old Sai Na.

Article | 19/05/2011 Plants vs. Zombies heads to China with new game versions

PopCap Games is releasing new versions of its Plants vs. Zombies title in China, with the aim of raking in more revenue from a major market that is cu...

Article | 17/05/2011 China's Web population a figure hard to pin down

Depending on how you count, China can have as many as 450 million Web users, or just 300 million.

Article | 16/05/2011 Alibaba, Yahoo try to mend ties with joint statement

Yahoo and Alibaba Group issued a joint statement on Sunday, in what appeared to be a symbolic effort by the companies to move past a dispute involving...