EBay's online payment subsidiary PayPal is negotiating with the Chinese B2B e-commerce group Alibaba, aiming to introduce its online payment service in China into Alibaba's worldwide site of AliExpress.

Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei Technologies has announced that the company has gained a new GPON FTTH commercial project contract from Wharf T&T, the second largest business fixed line operator in Hong Kong.

According to Jeremy Richard Godfrey, chief information officer for Hong Kong government, Hong Kong plans to increase its information technology budget for 2010, aiming to develop five major innovative technology projects.

Chinese online auction website Taobao.com has formally launched a public welfare channel and a public welfare fund account.

Another Chinese New Year is upon us, and this year we transition into the Year of the Tiger. As Chinese businesses begin to shut down until the beginning of March 2010, we've stared at the eye of the tiger and risen to the challenge of figuring out the trends for this coming year.

Hong Kong's Office of the Telecommunications Authority this week issued a new code of practice to provide telecommunications companies with guidelines on the drawing up of service contracts for consumers.

Profits rose at the end of last year for Chinese online travel company Ctrip.com International Ltd. according to the company's unaudited financial results announced today for the fourth quarter and the full year ended December 31, 2009.

Lu Jiansheng, vice president of Sony Ericsson Group and director of Sony Ericsson China, has confirmed that he has departed from the positions.

CDC Software has announced plans to acquire up to a 51% stake in Vitova, a Hong Kong-based enterprise content management service provider.

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.

Erik Hartmann, Asia-Pacific manager of Google Books, has made a public apology to Chinese writers for using their literary works without their approval.

It's the end of a great year at ChinaTechNews.com, and we have compiled a list of our own top ten online technology stories and topics for 2009. The year 2009 began with worries of how the financial crisis would impact Chinese businesses, but those worries soon disappeared as businesses realized China was on its own [...]

Chinese electronics retailer Suning Appliance Company Limited has announced plans to invest HKD215 million to acquire businesses and assets of Citicall Retail Management Limited, an electronics retailer in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong's Office of the Telecommunications Authority reports that the five major mobile network operators in Hong Kong have agreed to formulate better operating practices to give more transparency to consumers.

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and National Development and Reform Commission have jointly issued a notice for simplifying fees for long-distance mobile phone calls, and the have decided to implement a single fee method to reduce the fee level.