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Article | 5/05/2011 China's new IT authority could raise censorship

China announced on Wednesday it had established a new department to oversee information on the Internet, in a move that could lead to more effective W...

Article | 4/05/2011 China's Facebook, Renren, faces stiff competition

It's been called the Facebook of China. And to 24-year-old Kuang Yaqiong, it pretty much is.

Article | 29/04/2011 China's ZTE fires back at Huawei with own lawsuit

Chinese telecommunications equipment supplier ZTE has fired back against its rival Huawei Technologies by filing its own patent infringement lawsuit a...

Article | 29/04/2011 China's Huawei files lawsuit aganist rival ZTE

China's largest telecommunications equipment supplier, Huawei, has filed lawsuits against Chinese rival ZTE for patent infringement involving mobile t...

Article | 28/04/2011 White iPhone 4 creates long lines in Beijing

The launch of Apple's iPhone 4 in a white casing generated a long line of Chinese customers outside one of the company's stores in Beijing on Thursday...

Article | 28/04/2011 Rovio to design versions of Angry Birds for China

Rovio Mobile, the developer of the Angry Birds game, plans to release Chinese versions of its hit product later this year, as it hopes to turn the ga...

Article | 28/04/2011 China's Baidu revenue, profits up on strong traffic growth

China's largest search engine, Baidu, reported strong revenue and profit growth in the first quarter, driven by "solid traffic growth" and measures to...

Article | 27/04/2011 Nokia sees growth in use of mobile app for rural China

Nokia, China's biggest handset vendor, reported on Wednesday that a mobile app aimed at helping rural Chinese users has become the company's fastest-g...

Article | 27/04/2011 Angry Birds game reaches 140 million downloads

The popularity of Angry Birds continues to soar as the game has now reached 140 million downloads worldwide, according to an executive with its publis...

Article | 27/04/2011 Chinese Twitter-like service looks to add other languages

One of the biggest Twitter-like microblogs in China will likely add other languages besides Chinese to its service, starting with an English language ...

Article | 26/04/2011 China's Alibaba sees big growth with AliExpress site

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group reported Tuesday that its wholesale supplier site at AliExpress is seeing "tremendous growth" and is beating ou...

Article | 25/04/2011 China approaches 900 million mobile phone users

China is on the verge of becoming the first country in the world to have more than 900 million cell phone users, according to government statistics.

Article | 21/04/2011 China clears Nokia Siemens Networks' deal for Motorola unit

China has cleared the way for Nokia Siemens Networks to complete its acquisition of Motorola's cellular networks business, after the deal was complica...

Article | 21/04/2011 China is Apple's fastest growing market for iPhone

While Apple's iPhone is selling well across the globe, China has emerged as its fastest growing market for the device.

Article | 21/04/2011 China Mobile hits 600 million customers

China Mobile, the world's largest mobile carrier, said its customer base exceeded 600 million on Wednesday, as the company reported an increase in pro...