Chinese Internet websites have continued to benefit from the maturing demand for online branding, Internet promotions, and e-commerce sales.

Cheng Lixin, ZTE's president for North America, said that the company plans to launch high-end smartphones for the U.S. in 2012.

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 mobile browser developer UCWeb has officially established a new subsidiary in New Delhi, India, and the company launched its latest UCWeb 8.0 version for Android in the country.

Microsoft has announced that its application store Market Place will open to developers in China at the end of October 2011.

Chinese software provider Kingsoft has launched its WPS 2012 office software and a mobile edition WPS for the Android system.

The world's search engine giant Google has launched the group buying search service in China, marking its formal entry into the saturated Chinese e-commerce market.

Chinese Internet security company Qihoo 360 has published a report covering Chinese mobile phone security for the first half of 2011, stating that from January to June 2011, about 2,559 new mobile viruses and malware were found in China, affecting 13.24 million mobile phone users.

There's been much news over the past few days about Microsoft Bing's English-language integration with Baidu.com's Chinese search engine.

China-based Xunlei Limited, a digital media content platform, announced it plans to sell 7.6 million American Depositary Shares in its initial public offering on Nasdaq.

Nokia has confirmed that Liang Yumei, senior vice president for Greater China, South Korea and Japan, departed Nokia on June 1, 2011.

Google says a likely phishing attack from Jinan has targeted hundreds of its Gmail email users.

United States Assistant Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin has penned a letter to the chairman of China's largest Internet search engine, asking for more transparency and greater adherence to human rights.

Chinese Internet community website Tianya.cn has announced that it completed a buy-back of a stake previous held by Google, which invested in Tianya.cn in 2007, and the company now plans to start expanding into the overseas markets by opening offices in Singapore and the U.S. in the first half of 2011.

Chinese telecom operator China Unicom, which currently is an official reseller of the Apple iPhone, has launched its self-developed smartphone operating system, Wophone, which the company claims to be the first smart terminal operating system with independent intellectual property rights in China.