Can you believe it's already been 10 years!? ChinaTechNews.com, and its previous incarnations of China Internet Forum and China Internet Update, started in 1999 and burst out onto the scene in a big way in 2000 — we have witnessed the entire decade of technology tribulations and techno-fads in China!

Proving once again that AOL is hapless when trying to operate outside its safe confines of the United States, America Online China is shutting its doors.

Mochi Media has inked an online games distribution partnership with Tencent America, a subsidiary of mainland China's Tencent Holdings, that gives users of QQ Games, Tencent America's free multiplayer gaming service for the U.S. market, access to thousands of titles from MochiAds, Mochi Media's network of online games.

Digital China, a Chinese IT service provider, has launched its B2C website xgou.com, providing IT, communications and consumer electronics products.

America Online finally opened its Chinese website on September 9, 2008.

AOL's research and development company has been unveiled in Beijing with the Chinese name of Aolong (Beijing) Technology Development Co., Ltd.

A rumor has been going through Chinese media that AOL is coming to China and it is sending job invitations via local job hunters to editors of many Chinese portal websites.

Days after stepping into Taiwan in a Herculean attempt to compete with local Web portals, AOL has now established a Hong Kong presence with the launch of an AOL.hk web domain.

Almost ten years after it first made an investment in second-tier Chinese web portal China.com, AOL has now announced a beta launch — not even a full service — of AOL.tw, a dedicated website for the region.