Google just announced a new round of layoffs targeting Motorola Mobility and 1,200 employees will lose their jobs, accounting for about 10% of all employees in the company.

Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. has reportedly closed its official websites in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Chinese smartphone maker Coolpad has cooperated with American carrier MetroPCS in the launch of its first LTE 4G mobile phone named Quattro in America.

China Unicom and Motorola have jointly launched Motorola's first low-price smartphone XT390 in China.

Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC will pay to gain patent licenses from Intertrust Technologies Corporation; meanwhile, the Taiwanese company will acquire a 20% stake in SyncTV, a subsidiary of Intertrust.

Chinese telecom operator China Unicom announced its strategic focus for 2012 and said it will focus on the sales of phones with the prices between CNY1,000 and CNY2,000.

Nokia Siemens Networks has announced plans to cut 17,000 employees around the world by the end of 2013, including about 4,000 mainland Chinese employees.

U.S.-based Motorola Solutions Inc. has entered into an agreement with China's Huawei Technologies Company Ltd. to settle all pending litigation between the two parties pending the satisfaction of certain conditions.

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.

Foxconn Technology Group has announced that in 2010, the company's export value from its Shenzhen processing and trade enterprise reached USD48 billion, a year-on-year increase of 50%.

AMD has announced that Karen Guo, AMD senior vice president and president of AMD Greater China, will depart the company at the end of 2010, due to her own career development reasons.

France-based 4G chipmaker Sequans has opened a new office in Shanghai.

Motorola has raised a lawsuit against the Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei in the United States, accusing the Chinese company of trade secret theft.

According to a representative from Motorola China, Motorola has submitted related files for its business partition to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Motorola China is now actively preparing for its business partition in accordance with Motorola's worldwide deployment.

It may sound like an illness in China, but Microsoft is aiming at Chinese mobile phone users with a new deal to include its Bing.com search engine on Motorola Android phones sold in the country.