Chinese technology giant Lenovo Group held a launch ceremony in Beijing to announce a new cloud computing strategy, a new smartphone, a tablet computer, a new personal computer, and TV products.

Isaiah Cheung, vice president for HP Worldwide and general manager for HP Personal Systems Group in China, will reportedly soon leave the company and join Microsoft China.

Canonical, developer of the open source operating system Ubuntu, has announced that Dell will sell PCs with the pre-installed Ubuntu operating system in its over 100 new retail stores in China.

Beijing technology entrepreneurs and software firms should shut their doors and turn off the lights, as Microsoft China might be aiming at hiring away some top young talent.

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

China Unicom has completed its first cloud computing procurement project, and four manufacturers won the bidding for various aspects of the project.

Chinese social networking site Renren.com has reportedly formed a strategic partnership with MSN China in sectors including social networking, instant messaging service, and open platform development.

Microsoft China has signed a cooperation agreement with China Standard Software Company Ltd, a Chinese Linux operating system provider, for the two parties to jointly develop, promote, and sell cloud computing solutions.

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

Microsoft China has announced the formal operation of its first authentic products experience store in China.

Data integration software provider Informatica Corporation has announced that it formally appointed Wang Qun as its president for Greater China, and Wang will be fully responsible for the company's businesses in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

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.

Munich-headquartered Wirecard AG and the Chinese third-party Internet payment platform Alipay.com have signed a cooperation agreement to provide fast and secure payment services to Internet users.

China Mobile and Microsoft have reached a deal to jointly promote the application of cloud computing technologies.

Microsoft China has announced that it has sued ten Chinese computer dealers for pre-installation of pirated Microsoft software on sold PCs.