Two of Shanda Interactive Entertainment Limited's subsidiaries have been busy this week doing an acquisition and hiring a new executive, respectively.

Chinese online game and instant messaging company Tencent has published its unaudited financial report for the third quarter of 2009.

Chinese social networking site Renren.com, previously known as Xiaonei.com, has reached strategic cooperation with the international mobile phone maker Nokia.

According to reports in Taiwanese local media, Taiwan-based social networking site Wretch recently announced that the number of its members had reached over 6.5 million, making it the largest SNS in Taiwan.

Following the announcement of the closure of its social networking service Yahoo Guanxi a few days ago, China Yahoo has now announced on its official forum that it will shut its space service on October 30, 2009.

According to a report published by China Yahoo's community operation department, the company plans to close its one-year-old social networking site Yahoo Guanxi on October 30, 2009.

Chinese social networking site company Oak Pacific Interactive has announced that its Renren.com and Kaixin.com have realized connectivity.

Chinese budget hotel chain 7 Days Inn — not to be confused with a similarly named American chain whose old moniker was Days Inn — has announced the trial operation of a social networking site "Happy 7 Days" at its official website.

Joseph Chen, chairman of Oak Pacific Interactive, has announced that the group will change the name of its social networking service website Xiaonei.com to Renren.com.

China's Ministry of Culture has published a notice on its official website, stating that it will start to investigate gang-themed illegal online games in China.

Chinese portal website Sohu.com has completed the beta test of its social networking service website named "White Society" and has formally opened the registration channel to Chinese netizens.

Chinese B2B e-commerce group Alibaba has announced plans to launch a newly-developed product "Ren Mai Tong" today, integrating e-commerce and the social networking service functions to provide an online community for business people.

Technology security company Symantec says Hong Kong received the highest level of spam of any region or country in the world as the company published its latest report.

Chinese telecommunications solutions provider Huawei has launched its social networking service website Aimi.com which targets Chinese white-collar netizens, marking Huawei's formal entry into the Internet business.

Chinese telecommunications operator China Mobile has announced the opening of registration of its social networking service website 139.com and the testing area of its website will be extended from Guangdong to the entire country.