Digital television provider NDS, a majority-owned subsidiary of News Corporation, has opened a new facility in Shenzhen to deal with research and customer support in the growing Chinese pay-TV market.

China Mobile has issued a report on the spam short message incident exposed by CCTV, and the telecommunications company states that people involved in the spam message sending have been punished and a notice of rebuke has been circulated against the company's affiliate Shandong Mobile.

Germany's Infineon Technologies AG has signed a letter of intent for a framework purchase agreement amounting to USD68 million with China's Huawei Technologies.

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba.com has one less competitor to worry about as Ninetowns Internet Technology Group Company Limited is terminating its own B2B online sourcing website Tootoo.com.

According to Liu Xiaodong, senior vice president of the owner of Zol.com.cn CBSI Group, Zol.com.cn will first invest CNY20 million in the development of its e-commerce platform and the Chinese media website will invest a total amount of CNY100 million in this platform over the next three years.

51job.com, one of the leading online human resource service providers in China, has launched a nationwide platform, in cooperation with hundreds of companies, providing internship opportunities for college students.

According to Frank Kwok Leung, president of the Chinese online game platform Ourgame, the company is currently discussing with the Chinese online game operator Shanda about their cooperation in joint operation of online games and an agreement is expected to be signed at the end of this month.

In response to media reports this week which stated China Unicom has signed an agreement with Apple to introduce Apple's iPhone into China, a spokesperson from China Unicom says "no comment at the current stage".

According to statistics released by the market research firm IDC, the PC shipment volume in Taiwan was 688,300 in the fourth quarter of 2008, a decrease of 9.1% compared with the previous quarter.

Chinese telecommunications operator China Mobile has published its annual financial report for 2008, which states its net profit increased by 29.6% to CNY112.8 billion during the period.

Mobile phone giant Nokia has announced plans to cut 1700 jobs globally and the company's operation in China may also be affected.

Chinese companies seeking support on mobile and embedded 3D systems have a new company to rely on as Finland-based Futuremark Corporation has opened operations in Shanghai.

GE Healthcare has been working hard in China to find technology solutions that can be used around the world, and now the company is planning to market a China-developed medical device to health practitioners in the United States.

Chinese online recruitment and classified ad service 51job Inc. says it has mutually agreed to terminate its business alliance agreement with Japan's Recruit Co. Ltd.

Chinese e-commerce behemoth Alibaba.com Limited says its 2008 total revenue hit CNY3.0 billion as it announced its financial results for the year ended December 31, 2008.