Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC has published its financial report for the fourth quarter of 2011, stating that its net profit decreased by 25.5% year-over-year during the reporting period.

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.

U.S.-based technology company AMD announced that it has appointed Le Jiaming as AMD global vice president to be fully responsible for AMD's sales in Greater China.

Samsung Electronics, the world's largest LCD panel manufacturer by revenue, has announced that it will invest about USD500 million to build a new joint venture in Suzhou for the production of 7.5-generation panels.

Taiwan-based Asia Pacific Telecom and Chinese mainland China Telecom have decided to launch a strategic cooperation in three major areas in the second quarter of 2011.

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.

Days after news of Apple CEO Steve Jobs' hiatus, and a few weeks before the expected unveiling of a new iPhone, news from China has muddied Apple's waters.

TVMall, China's first online store based on the IPTV platform, has been launched.

China Unicom has reportedly started the public test of its online application store Wostore and the platform will be formally put into operation later this month.

A representative from the Chinese telecom operator China Telecom has revealed that the company has stored seven million 3G mobile phones, covering over 60 types of 20 brands, for the launch of a summer promotion to entice Chinese consumers to buy new phones.

The National Labor Committee from the United States has released a report in which it reportedly calls Dongguan Kunying Computer Goods Company Ltd, a Chinese supplier for Microsoft, a bad place to work.

Chinese home appliances retailer Suning Appliance and South Korean electronics maker Samsung have signed a new sales plan with the total value of CNY10 billion in Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu province.

Chinese social networking site Renren.com and the South Korean electronics company Samsung have announced in Beijing that the two companies have reached cooperation and will jointly create a social networking service ecosphere based on products of both parties.

Initiated by China Telecom, the operator of the CDMA2000 network in China, China's "CDMA2000 Mobile Phone Design and Development Industry Alliance" has been founded in Beijing with over 100 members, including mobile phone chip platform providers, mobile phone design companies, and brand manufacturers with independent development abilities.

Chinese security software provider 360 has announced plans to launch a permanently free-of-charge mobile phone security software product to help users solve increasing problems of spam SMS and nuisance calls.