Chinese online auction website Taobao.com has launched an e-commerce rights protection platform with the approach of March 15, World Consumer Rights Day.

According to reports in local media, the domain name system of China's leading VoIP service provider UUCall has recovered and its website reopened on February 4, 2010.

Taobao.com, the Internet shopping subsidiary of the Chinese B2B e-commerce group Alibaba, has announced that it has started to deploy authorized offline stores to provide convenience to consumers who cannot shop online in China.

China's official news agency Xinhua News Agency and the Chinese B2B e-commerce group Alibaba have formed a strategic alliance in Hangzhou to jointly develop online information services.

Chinese business-to-business e-commerce group Alibaba has announced the establishment of its education subsidiary in Hangzhou, Zhejiang.

Zhang Hui, president of Tengchuang Technology, told local media that the company has gained over CNY100 million in investment from Legend Capital, an independent venture capital subsidiary of Legend Holdings Ltd.

VisionChina Media, one of the largest outdoor digital mobile television advertising operator in China, has announced plans to acquire DMG, China's largest subway television advertising operator, for a total consideration of USD160 million.

Chinese telecom operator China Mobile has reached cooperation with ten Chinese content providers to jointly promote the development of the mobile phone reading industry.

Ericsson has gained a contract from China Telecom to upgrade the operator's backbone network in the Yangtze River Delta area with its 40 Gbps DWDM optical transmission solution.

Nokia's distributors have submitted a report to China's National Development and Reform Commission, State Administration of Taxation and State Administration for Industry and Commerce which alleges how Nokia has been involved in tax evasion and tax fraud in China.

Business travelers in China are requiring better digital services, and IBM is working with a hotel in Hangzhou to create a "smart hotel" to provide these types of services to travelers.

Hangzhou, the capital city of Zhejiang province, has launched a program to train young people in China's rural areas on how to open online stores.

Chinese Internet shopping platform Taobao.com has confirmed that the company has set up a subsidiary in Beijing, and Wu Yongming, former general manager for Alimama.com, will be general manager for this new branch.

Starting tomorrow and lasting for three days, GoIndustry DoveBid will be hosting an inaugural online auction for Motorola in China to rid the company of a large quantity of mobile telecom test equipment used by Motorola in its Hangzhou facility.

Just days after announcing new initiatives in Hangzhou, Taiwan media reports that Microsoft will cut more than 300 jobs in the Chinese mainland and more than 10 jobs in Taiwan in the second round of its staff reduction.