Cisco Systems Inc. has announced a restructuring of its Asia Pacific and Japan division and said its Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan units, formerly parts of the Asia Pacific division, will form an independent Greater China division.

United States WiMax network operator Clearwire has announced that it has selected the Chinese telecom equipment manufacturer Huawei Technologies as its WiMAX network infrastructure provider.

Cisco and China's Tsinghua University have jointly set up a laboratory for green technology.

Chinese telecommunications equipment maker Huawei Technologies increased its sales by 46% year-on-year to USD23.3 billion in 2008.

Chinese instant messaging and online game company Tencent has announced plans to launch a new talent strategy called "Large platform, great accomplishment" to attract talents in top Chinese companies to enhance Tencent's human resource power.

At the tenth anniversary of Cisco's (CSCO) China Networking Academy held in Chengdu, Sichuan, the company announced that it would further enhance cooperation with the Sichuan government and Sichuan Education Department to establish 50 new academies in the next three years to realize 100% coverage of this project in Sichuan's institutes of higher learning.

Alisoft, a subsidiary of Alibaba Group, reportedly plans to cooperate with 20 venture capital companies to invest USD100 million to China's software market and to create 30 listed companies in three years.

Cisco (CSCO) China will deploy the Cisco TelePresence System on Chinese Web portal Sina.com's services to create an in-person communication experience for its online interview program with guests around China.

During discussions at the Strategic Economic Dialogue between China and the United States, Cisco (CSCO) China has signed separate cooperation agreements with China Mobile and China Construction Bank.

Cisco (CSCO) has signed its first gold-level partner in the southwestwern area of China.

John Chambers, chairman and CEO of Cisco (CSCO), has announced in Beijing Cisco's development plan in China.

Global computer manufacturer Dell (DELL) says that it plans to make a purchase of US$23 billion in computer components from China this year and will increase the purchase value to US$29 billion next year.

The results have been announced of an ongoing international enforcement initiative between the United States and Canada that targets the illegal distribution of counterfeit network hardware manufactured in China.