China's Inspur Group published its financial report for 2012, stating that its total operating revenue reached CNY40.1 billion, a year-on-year increase of 9% compared with the CNY36.68 billion in 2011.

Linux-focused firm Canonical is working with the Chinese government to promote and develop a version of the company's Ubuntu operating system.

South Korea's Samsung sold 30.06 million smartphones in China in 2012, ranking first in the Chinese smartphone market for the first time.

During the Mobile World Congress 2013 held in Barcelona, Spain, the Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE launched ZTE Open, its first smartphone product running on Firefox OS.

Taiwanese PC maker Acer said that its notebook shipments are expected to decrease by 10% to 15% for the first quarter of 2013, due to seasonal factors.

Jean-Philippe Courtois, Microsoft's global executive vice president and Microsoft worldwide president, apparently recently visited Suning's new headquarters in Nanjing for the first time, and implemented comprehensive talks with Zhang Jindong, chairman of the Chinese consumer electronic retail chain.

Alibaba's cloud computing platform's five systems, including cloud computing, large-scale storage, cloud network, data crunching, and Yun OS, will be integrated and renamed the Feitian platform.

Microsoft announced its new product sales strategy in the Chinese market to only provide the electronic online version and OEM pre-installed versions of Windows 8, cutting the sales of packaged operating system sales.

Microsoft has formally launched its Windows Phone 7.5 operating system in mainland China, marking the official entry of this mobile OS into the Chinese market.

Shanda Interactive Entertainment Limited, China's leading interactive entertainment media company, has launched its Android-based customized smartphone operating system named Lezhong ROM.

The B2C e-commerce website Dangdang.com reportedly plans to launch a new e-book business channel in the second half of December 2011.

Chinese mobile browser developer UCWeb has officially established a new subsidiary in New Delhi, India, and the company launched its latest UCWeb 8.0 version for Android in the country.

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.

Chinese e-commerce group Alibaba will soon launch a new cloud mobile operating system.

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has announced that during the second quarter of 2011, the company's shipments in China decreased by over 50% compared with the previous quarter and its operating losses reached EUR487 million.