Chinese Internet company Tencent published its financial report for the fourth quarter and the entire year of 2012.

MiTalk, the instant messaging and social application from the Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi, has formed a partnership with Mface, a mobile social network in Southeast Asia, for the promotion of MiTalk throughout the entire Asian market.

An internal email from Chinese Web portal Sina.com has revealed structural changes at the company, including the establishment of a portal technology department.

China Mobile Beijing's branch has formally started providing nano-SIM cards for iPhone 5 users in its 33 business halls.

Sina.com's microblog service Weibo.com has fully closed its open platform private messaging interface to prevent third-party applications from sending private messages to Weibo users.

Sina.com and HTC have signed a strategic cooperation agreement in Taiwan, stating that the two parties will work together on product account systems, mobile payment systems, and customized devices.

Chinese Internet company Sina.com has started internal beta testing of its cloud store Yunshangdian.com, which provides click-to-use personal cloud services.

China's State Council Information Office today issued updated draft guidelines for further strengthening government oversight of the Internet.

China Internet Network Information Center has published a new statistics report, stating that there were 250 million microblog users in China by the end of 2011, a year-on-year increase of 296%.

Chinese Internet company Tencent and China Network Television have jointly announced a strategic partnership for a comprehensive social media and microblogging cooperation.

Chinese application service provider UC will sue Tencent, the Chinese Internet giant, for alleged unfair competitive practices.

Oracle China has launched a new recruitment program named "We are Hiring", under which the technology company will hire over 600 new employees in China to support its fast business growth in the local market.

Chinese B2C e-commerce website 360buy.com has announced via its official microblog that it plans to recruit 20,000 new e-commerce talents in 2012 to meet the development demands of the company.

Chinese online media and mobile value-added services firm Sina Corporation says its profit fell more than 50% as it announced its unaudited financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2011.

Smartphone maker HTC and the Chinese Internet company Sina.com jointly held a cross-platform brand launch meeting in Beijing to promote the first Sina microblog-themed smartphone product in China.