Wang Hai, China's famous consumer rights advocate, has submitted to a 3000-word report to both the Zhejiang Provincial Department for Industry and Commerce and the Consumer Rights and Interests Protection Department of China's State Administration for Industry and Commerce, accusing Chinese online auction website Taobao.com of infringing on consumers' rights.

Chinese wireless value-added services firm Linktone Ltd. announced its unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2008, but even though its quarterly net income magically hit USD0.6 million, its net loss for the full year of 2008 slumped to USD16.5 million.

Zhejiang Yong Xin Digital Technology Co. Ltd., a subsidiary Chinese electronics retail distributor China 3C Group, has established an electronic retail franchise operation.

Beijing-based Anchiva is integrating Commtouch GlobalView URL filtering into its Secure Web Gateway product.

Seven Chinese government departments, including the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping, have jointly announced plans to start a one-year campaign to promote a nationwide rectification of China's geographical information market and to fight illegal surveying and illegal publication of Internet maps.

Hong Kong-listed Chinese instant messaging and mobile firm Tencent Holdings Limited worries that online advertising will take a hit as advertisers decrease their budgets in the worsening economic environment.

Sohu.com, the Chinese Internet portal that in recent years has subsided from giving overseas investors much guidance on its product development except for quarterly conference calls, has reared its head to announce that Credit Suisse, Merrill Lynch, Citi and Susquehanna Financial Group are all ready to cash in on the initial public offering of Sohu's [...]

Chinese wireless value-added services company KongZhong Corporation today closed the round of financing with Nokia Growth Partners that gave the wayward Chinese mobile firm approximately USD6.8 million in 5-year convertible senior notes.

In response to the mobile spam message problem and the irregular use of customer information exposed on CCTV in recent days to honor the World Consumer Rights Day on March 15, China Mobile has held a nationwide television and telephone conference, asking its provincial branches to immediately investigate the problems and plug all possible loopholes.

The General Administration of Press and Publication of China will soon fix a new measure to regulate the cooperation between Chinese and foreign online games service providers and the new measure may focus on punishing foreign game operators who adopt arbitrary rules during the cooperation with their Chinese partners.

The Chongqing government recently held a TD-SCDMA industry investment meeting to build China's first 3G industrial zone and wireless technology park, drawing 18 investment projects from many technology companies, including IBM and Infineon, with total mobile investment intentions of CNY15.63 billion.

Chinese website operator Sina Corporation just announced its preliminary, unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2008, a period in which revenues declined quarter-over-quarter and the future still seems dim.

One of the largest instant noodle companies in China, Sichuan Baijia Food Company, has announced plans to enter China's online direct sales sector at the end of March 2009.

China Telecom has announced the beginning of the trial operation of its 3G services in Jiangsu and Shanghai, but the services are currently only available to users of the My eHome service.

The National Forestation Commission, China Ministry of Forestry and China Green Foundation jointly held a press conference on the launch of the Eco-China Website at Eco.gov.cn during this year's Tree-planting Day.