Shanghai-based game developer UltiZen Games Limited has announced that it has acquired the Japanese game developer Red Entertainment Corporation Limited, but no financial details surrounding the transaction are currently available.

Tencent Holdings Limited announced the launch of their QQ International instant messenger product.

Italy-based Translated unveiled an index showing that Chinese netizens rank among the highest in the world in their cumulative online purchasing power.

Turismo de Portugal, I.P., the national tourist board of Portugal, announced the launch of a Simplified Chinese version of the country's official tourism website visitportugal.com to coincide with the ongoing Shanghai Expo 2010.

Wipro Technologies has just opened its global delivery center in Chengdu to provide business process outsourcing services to its customers in China and around the world.

Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei Technologies has announced that the company has set up a long-term development lab in Tokyo, Japan.

According to reports in Japanese local media, the country's electronics retailer Laox is talking with the Chinese home appliances retailer Suning and plans to sell parts of its stake to the Chinese company.

China Mobile Shanghai branch said it will add six new service languages in addition to the current English and Japanese languages of its foreign language call center before the end of 2009.

Chinese software provider Kingsoft has launched the Japanese edition of its translation software Ciba in Tokyo.

Japanese television maker Hitachi may reduce its TV business on the Chinese mainland and cut up to 2,000 employees.

Chinese search engine Baidu.com has launched a beta version of a new e-commerce service which is an integration platform to help Japanese companies sell Japanese-made products to Chinese mainland customers.

Fujitsu Quality Laboratory Limited this week announced the establishment of a subsidiary in Suzhou which will offer local quality and environmental assurance services to companies in the electronics sector.

According to reports in Japanese local media, about 100 Japanese enterprises will open online stores in China in the next few months and sell their products via the Internet, aiming to realize sales of JPY4 billion in the first year of their operation.

With Chinese electronics retailers pessimistic about the next few financial quarters because of the financial crisis, Best Buy (BBY) has its blinders on in China and has just opened two new stores in Shanghai, increasing its total retail outlets in China to four.

Taiwan's ASUSTek Computer has announced a recall of its Eee Box PCs that were sold in Japan because they contain a virus.