Starting from November 2009, users of China Unicom and China Telecom will be able to apply and use China Mobile's Fetion instant messaging service.

French retail giant Carrefour and China Unicom Guangdong branch have formed a strategic alliance and have signed a cooperative agreement.

According to Taiwan's financial regulatory department, 368 stores in Taiwan have installed UnionPay's devices to accept payments with bank cards and credit cards from mainland Chinese consumers.

TCL Group has published its electronics and appliances sales report for July 2009.

Hyannis Port, United States (August 12, 2009) /ChinaNewswire.com/ — Eunice Kennedy Shriver died early this morning at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, Massachusetts, surrounded by her family. She was 88 years old. Near her at the time of her death were her husband, R. Sargent Shriver; her five children: Robert "Bobby" Sargent Shriver III, [...]

Hyannis Port, United States (August 12, 2009) /ChinaNewswire.com/ — It's hard for us to believe: the amazing Eunice Kennedy Shriver went home to God this morning at 2 a.m.
She was the light of our lives, a mother, wife, grandmother, sister and aunt who taught us by example and with passion what it [...]

China's first professional academic institution that focuses on the systematic and theoretical research of Internet management and information society law has been started at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.

After a two-month preparation period, Beijing has formally launched its home appliances and electronics "old-for-new policy" and the detailed implementation regulations have also been published.

China Unicom Shanghai has published a report which states because the integration of its customer service and supporting systems have been completed, the current 10060 customer service hotline will be closed on August 30, 2009.

Chinese wireless value-added services firm KongZhong Corporation has announced its unaudited second quarter 2009 financial results.

To meet the demands of the fast-growing 3G mobile phone users in China, the Chinese mobile phone manufacturer Coolpad has launched the first major 3G video call center in China.

A board member has resigned at Chinese wireless value-added services provider Hurray Holding Company Ltd.

Chinese search engine firm Baidu.com's online shopping platform Youa has launched a physical store certification program, providing physical store certification service and operating qualification service to its contracted vendors.

Monte-Carlo, Monaco (August 10, 2009) /ChinaNewswire.com/ — Gamers playing the popular massively multi-player online games can now earn real money from their 'virtual goods' by selling direct to each other.
PWNex.com aims to become the premier destination for both buyers and sellers of 'virtual goods' and services for hugely successful games such as World of [...]

By ChinaTechNews.com Editorial Team Despite a worldwide financial crisis, China's e-commerce industry is seeing something of a boom, growing over 120% in 2008 and with rapid growth projected over the next 3-5 years. At the moment, the demand for low prices and high quality is overwhelming, and traditional wholesale channels are losing ground to Internet-based [...]