Samsung China revealed in its corporate social responsibility report for 2012 that during the reporting period, Samsung's total operating revenue in China reached USD75.1 billion.

South Korea's Samsung sold 30.06 million smartphones in China in 2012, ranking first in the Chinese smartphone market for the first time.

Flextronics, a Singapore-headquartered electronics manufacturing services provider, will acquire Motorola Mobility's plant in Tianjin.

Harry Shum, Microsoft's global senior vice president in charge of the development of the company's global search engine, announced that a new version is now available for Bing Chinese search, Cn.bing.com.

Chinese social networking site Kaixin001.com recently published its software client for smart TV, which will be pre-installed on smart TV products manufactured by Samsung, Haier, and Hisense.

Chinese search engine Baidu and TCL jointly announced the launch of a new TCL smartphone S710, which will have Baidu's cloud smart terminal platform.

Chinese Internet shopping website Taobao.com has launched an application store under the domain App.taobao.com.

According to reports in Russian local media, the Chinese electronics and PC group Lenovo will start selling Android smartphones in Russia, India, and Indonesia; and the company will launch Windows Phone 8 smartphones this autumn.

Chinese Internet company Tencent revealed in its financial report for the first quarter of 2012 that the company acquired a 13.84% stake in KakaoTalk, a South Korean mobile communication application, for CNY403 million.

Chinese social networking company Renren.com has launched two new mobile products: REST API and Mobile Plugins.

UCWeb, a leading provider of mobile Internet software technology and browser services in China, plans to establish its operating platform in America in 2012.

China Unicom and Motorola have jointly launched Motorola's first low-price smartphone XT390 in China.

Li Wanqiang, vice president for the Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi, has revealed to local media that the company plans to launch the second-generation Xiaomi smartphones in the second half of 2012, aiming at sales of over 10 million units.

The Chinese subsidiary of the Japanese social networking game platform operator DeNA has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with China Unicom's Wostore, and the two parties will jointly establish a Mobage games special zone for smartphones.

Yu Chengdong, chairman for Huawei Device, said that the company is planning to ship 60 million smartphones in 2012.