Microsoft China recently published its new Chinese development strategy in Beijing, stating that the company plans to hire 1,000 new employees in 2013 financial year and 50% of these new employees will be university graduates.

Nokia Siemens Networks has confirmed to local media that it will cut 350 employees in China.

Chinese B2B e-commerce group Alibaba has announced plans to launch a CNY3 billion housing loan scheme for its employees and a CNY500 million education fund to solve the preschool and primary education problems of children of its employees.

Microsoft China has announced plans to bring Dalian into its "urban development" plan and it will set up a new branch in the city in May 2011.

According to rumor spreads on the Chinese Internet, Shanda Interactive Entertainment Limited, a top interactive entertainment media and online game company in China, plans to cut over 400 employees.

Dell plans to open a second major China operations center next year in Chengdu with manufacturing, sales and services to support rapid growth in business occurring in western China.

Taiwan-based original equipment manufacturer Foxconn has announced plans to raise salaries for all of its factory employees.

Chinese telecom operator China Mobile has announced adjustments to its executive team and Li Yue, former deputy general manager of China Mobile, was promoted to general manager of the company, replacing Wang Jianzhou.

The world's three major IT companies — Apple, HP and Dell — are reportedly respectively conducting investigations on the working conditions of Foxconn following the series of suicides happened in the Shenzhen factory of this Taiwan-based original electronics manufacturer.

Microsoft's MSN China has announced the appointment of a new management team to enhance its management structure of technology and operation teams.

According to Hong Kong media, about 62 workers from China's Jiangsu province have been hospitalized for n-Hexane poisoning while they worked for Wintek, a supplier of Apple.

Song Zhongjie, Google China's general manager for sales resigned on April 16, 2010, and will reportedly join the Chinese lifestyle website Aibang.com as president.

In light of recent deaths at the facilities of the original equipment manufacturer Foxconn, Shenzhen Municipal Federation of Trade Unions has published the investigation results on the suicide incidents at Foxconn.

According to an insider from the Chinese search engine company Baidu.com, Wang Jin, former vice director of Google China Engineering Research Institute, will join Baidu.com as vice president for technology, making him the first top Google China executive to join Baidu.com in recent months.

More than ten people, all of whom were reported to be former employees of Philips, gathered outside Philips' Beijing office last week to demand that the company pay full social insurance contributions.