Two weeks before it plans to announce the financial results of its first quarter, embattled Chinese wireless value-added services firm Linktone Ltd. has replaced its top management.

Hainan's Cultural Bureau is carrying out a program jointly with local media to expose illegal netcafes in the southern Chinese province.

According to the latest statistics provided by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, China's software export reached USD4.93 billion in the first four months of 2009, a year-on-year increase of 48.2%.

Technology security company Symantec says Hong Kong received the highest level of spam of any region or country in the world as the company published its latest report.

Chinese financial services software provider Longtop Financial Technologies Limited has reported its unaudited financial results for the fiscal fourth quarter and fiscal year ended March 31, 2009.

Beijing No. 1 Secondary People's Court has accepted two lawsuits filed against Datang Telecom Technology Company Ltd.

According to information from Shanghai's court website, Chinese online game operator The9 is targeting the American game developer Blizzard Entertainment in two lawsuits which involve property loss compensation and commercial defamation, respectively.

Electronics retail giant Best Buy has announced the official opening of its Xinzhuang store in Shanghai.

With a drop in hotel commissions, Chinese Internet travel company eLong Inc. managed to massage a minuscule profit as the company reported unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2009.

China Great Wall Computer Group Corporation and the Algerian broadband network operator EEPAD have reached an agreement to jointly invest USD4 million to set up a manufacturing joint venture in Algeria.

Chinese lifestyle website 58.com has announced that its advertising revenue in April 2009 was over CNY3 million and its net profit was CNY1.1 million, a year-on-year increase of 50% and an increase of 37% compared with the previous month.

Proving that hype surrounds the maxim that online game companies can mount profit offensives in even the worst economic times, Chinese online game developer Giant Interactive Group Inc. has reported a sequential profit drop of 20.1% as it announced its unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2009.

Chinese online entertainment and game developer Shanda Interactive Entertainment Limited says it plans to have its online business go public in the United States.

Taiwan-based electronics manufacturer Hon Hai Precision has announced that it will cooperate with Taiwan's Institute for Information Industry to develop a cloud computer software plan, which will be launched in June 2009.

Chinese market research firm Analysys International has published its monitoring report on China's search engine market for the first quarter of 2009, which shows the scale of China's search engine market has reached CNY1.365 billion, a year-on-year increase of 46%, but a decrease of 11% compared with the previous quarter.