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.

Zhang Zhiqiang, president for Nokia Siemens Networks Greater China, has revealed to the Chinese local media that during the second quarter of 2011, the company's sales in China reached EUR402 million, a year-on-year increase of 13%.

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.

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.

Siemens Business Communication Systems and HP China have signed a strategic memorandum of understanding to jointly develop services for the Chinese market.

Nokia Siemens Networks' latest financial report shows that during the forth quarter of 2010, its net sales in the Greater China region reached EUR506 million, a year-on-year increase of 20% and an increase of 63% compared with the previous quarter.

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.

China's National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center has published a notice, stating that it found a new type of virus named Stuxnet through its Internet monitoring.

Nokia Siemens Networks, the international telecommunications hardware, software, and services company, has announced that it will deploy an IP Multimedia Subsystem core platform for China Mobile to offer IMS-based multimedia application services to the enterprise customers of this Chinese telecom operator.

Nokia Siemens Networks' new TD-LTE open lab has been set up in its research and development base in Hangzhou.

Siemens AG said it had signed a range of new orders worth about CNY2 billion with Chinese firms and its environmental business accounted for a significant proportion of those deals.

Chinese telecommunication operator China Unicom has confirmed that the company has sent a group to Europe to purchase 3G communications equipment and has signed contracts with European companies, including the Germany-based Nokia Siemens Networks.

Chinese telecommunications equipment maker Huawei Technologies increased its sales by 46% year-on-year to USD23.3 billion in 2008.

Commenting on the recent rumor which says Siemens China will cut 10,000 jobs, CEO of Siemens (SI) China Hao Ruiqiang says that the news is untrue and the company will not change its plan to invest CNY10 billion in China in the future.

Nokia Siemens Networks and China Mobile's (CHL) Fujian branch are working together to help bleed China's peasants of their hard-earned cash through a new marketing platform that will allow urbanites to sell to farmers via the Internet.