After selling its CDMA network to China Telecom, China Unicom has started to upgrade its voucher system and the company's Beijing branch has announced that it has launched a new-generation rechargeable card for mobile phone users to replace its original rechargeable card.

Local media is again reporting that a Chinese Internet company — in this case, Alibaba.com — has suspended advertising on Chinese search engine Baidu.com (BIDU).

The Chinese telecom equipment giant ZTE has signed an exclusive contract with the Mauritanian telecom operator Chinguitel to build the first 2.5 GHz mobile WiMAX commercial network in the country, which is also the first major WiMAX commercial network across the entire African continent.

Taiwan-based TFT-LCD manufacturer AU Optronics Corporation has appointed Chen Laizhu, its former general manager, as CEO of the company and the new appointment will take effect from January 1, 2009.

According to the Chinese office software provider Evermore Software, benefiting from Microsoft's "black desktop" situation, the download volume of the company's Office 2009 individual version has recently reached 5.3 million.

Tencent plans to introduce an IP encryption policy in its instant messaging software QQ to better protect the privacy and information security of its users.

The chain convenience store group 7-Eleven has jointly announced with China UnionPay to launch a convenient financial service plan, providing China UnionPay's standard card users in Guangdong with a series of convenient payment services.

American-based Silicon Image (SIMG) has opened its latest research and development center in Shanghai.

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60 thought leaders and over 300 senior industry participants congregated at Frost & Sullivan Growth, Innovation and Leadership Congress.
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2008 Frost & Sullivan Growth Excellence Awards honour the best-in-class companies and individuals
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (October 29, 2008) /China Newswire/ — The 2008 Frost & Sullivan Growth Excellence Awards banquet recognised several world-class companies and individuals for successfully growing their corporations, continuously innovating products and processes and outstanding leadership skills that continue to drive excellence.
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Chinese search engine Baidu (BIDU) officially announced that it has committed to be a member of the United Nations Global Compact to boost its daily management on corporate social responsibility.

The Shanghai-listed Beijing UFIDA Software has acquired a 100% stake in Beijing Founder Chunyuan Technology Development Company a financial information software company, for CNY380 million in cash.

Microsoft MSN has reached a strategic cooperative instant messaging agreement with Kingsoft Duba to jointly provide free security products to the users of Windows Live Messenger.

The recent survey published by China Electronic Chamber of Commerce Consumer Electronic Product Investigation Office shows that the failure rate of the digital cameras sold in China reached 12.9%.