Taiwanese mobile phones and devices designer HTC Corporation has announced that it has promoted Jason Mackenzie, HTC's president for North America and Latin America, to the newly-created position of president for global sales and marketing.

Chinese software company Kingsoft has decided to give Kingsoft Ciba, its Chinese-English translation software, a new logo to replace the one that has been using for the past 13 years.

Chinese travel review website Daodao.com announced it has inked an agreement with National Geographic Traveler China to begin cross-channel cooperation for marketing.

China Satellite Mobile Broadcasting Corporation, the company owned by China's State Administration of Radio Film and Television, has signed an agreement with China Mobile to jointly promote the development of TD-SCDMA mobile phones with the CMMB function to provide wireless streaming video.

Chinese Internet company NetEase.com has announced its unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2008.

Local Chinese media this week proclaimed that the logo for China Unicom's 3G business has been revealed in a promotional animation published on the website of its local branch in Wuxi.

The Internet Committee of the China Advertising Association has launched a trial version of the Recommended Usage Standard for China's Internet Advertising and the standard started its trial operation from January 1, 2009.

In one of the biggest Chinese technology deals of 2008, Chinese Internet portal Sina.com (SINA) has entered into a definitive agreement worth about USD1 billion with Focus Media Holding Limited (FMCN) to acquire substantially all of the assets of Focus Media's digital out-of-home advertising networks, including LCD display network, poster frame network and in-store network.

One of the largest Chinese download service provides Xunlei has joined Baidu (BIDU) Alliance, which means Xunlei's users will be able to directly use Baidu.com's search box embedded in the products of Xunlei.

Shen Jianming, vice president for Alibaba Group and vice president for Yahoo (YHOO) China, told local media that she has resigned her positions and officially departed from Alibaba Group.

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has published a notice, which states that to enhance the construction of MIIT's official website and to raise the popularity and credibility of the website, it has decided to collect logo ideas for the website from the public between December 15, 2008 to March 31, 2009.

Google (GOOG) announced at its 2008 winter marketing forum in Beijing that it is preparing to launch an initiative to shutter all of the irregular digital advertising agents in China that resell Google's services.

China's Focus Media (FMCN) announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Allyes Online Media Holding Ltd. is preparing to be listed in the United States.

Zou Shenglong, former president and chief executive officer of Xunlei, told local media that Cheng Hao, co-founder of Xunlei and former chief operating officer of the company, has replaced Zou's position as the president of the company, but Zou will continue to be CEO of Xunlei.

VMware (VMW) announced today the appointment of David Sung as president of VMware's Greater China region.