Friday the 13th did not play well for Apple today, as the company suspended the sale of its iPhone 4S smartphones in its Chinese retail outlets.

The B2C e-commerce website Dangdang.com reportedly plans to launch a new e-book business channel in the second half of December 2011.

Chinese Internet retailer Dangdang.com has announced that the company has changed its management structure.

Li Guoqing, joint president of the Chinese Internet shopping website Dangdang.com, has announced that the company will stop putting advertisements on search engine Baidu.com from April 2011 due to the recent accusation that Baidu.com is involved in literature and music piracy.

Chinese B2C e-commerce website Dangdang.com has announced that it will continue to follow a low-price strategy for its users and has invested CNY40 million to launch promotional activities, covering books, digital products, cosmetics, and maternal and baby products.

Chinese Internet retailer Dangdang.com has announced that they will launch a home return and refund service in 800 Chinese cities.

More than 1,000 suppliers, publishers, and Internet retailers, including Dangdang.com, Microsoft, Aigo, Wyeth, Lock & Lock, Commercial Press, and the People's Literature Publishing House, have jointly published an "Internet Retailing Honesty Declaration" in China.

A representative from China Hualu Group has revealed that the video website Hualu5.com developed by its subsidiary Hualu Culture Industry Company is expected to be launched in a month.

Chinese Internet shopping website Dangdang.com, which focuses on the sale of books, has confirmed that Conor Yang, former chief financial officer of AirMedia Group, has joined the company as chief financial officer, preparing for the initial public offering of Dangdang.com.

Netease, one of the major email service providers in China, has launched a credit email alliance and the alliance has been joined by many companies from the finance, third-party payment, e-commerce and online games industries.

China Telecom Beijing branch has opened a flagship store on the Internet e-commerce website Taobao.com, providing 3G terminal products such as 3G network interface cards, 3G mobile phones, and 3G netbooks as well as communications services such as wireless broadband service, 3G wireless packages, and voice service packages.

One of the largest instant noodle companies in China, Sichuan Baijia Food Company, has announced plans to enter China's online direct sales sector at the end of March 2009.

Daoyao.com, the online drugstore branch of Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical, has announced that the company reached an agreement with the third-party Internet payment platform 99bill.com to jointly develop a business in the online drugstore sector.

After a year-long preparation period, China's Xinhua Bookstore is finally starting its online sales business by cooperating with seven bookstores, including Beijing Books Building, Wangfujing Bookstore, and Zhongguancun Bookstore.

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