Smartphone maker HTC and the Chinese Internet company Sina.com jointly held a cross-platform brand launch meeting in Beijing to promote the first Sina microblog-themed smartphone product in China.

The American social networking website MySpace has cut two-thirds of its staff in China and several executives in the Chinese division have departed their positions.

A representative in charge of the planning of China Mobile's online application store Mobile Market has revealed that the company's location-based service module is currently finishing its test phase, and will be launched next month.

Chinese social networking site Renren.com has published its five annual strategic products, covering information, entertainment, and location services, and what it plans for 2011.

Beijing Second Intermediate People's Court has announced its decision for Kaixin001.com's lawsuit against Oak Pacific Interactive, which previously launched a similar social networking site as that of Kaixin001.com, asking the latter to stop using the Chinese name of "Kai Xin Wang" and pay compensation of CNY400,000 to the complainant.

Chinese online gaming firm The9 has announced that it plans to introduce the game-oriented social networking site OpenFeint into the Chinese market before the end of 2010.

Chinese software provider Kingsoft has announced that its office software product WPS Office has gained new purchase orders from Chinese state-owned enterprises, including China Southern Power Grid, Angang Steel, Baosteel Group, China Southern, China National Textiles, and China XD Group.

Lu Jiansheng, vice president of Sony Ericsson Group and director of Sony Ericsson China, has confirmed that he has departed from the positions.

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.

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.

Beijing-based Anchiva is integrating Commtouch GlobalView URL filtering into its Secure Web Gateway product.

The Chinese Web 2.0 company Oak Pacific Interactive has announced the opening of its social networking site Kaixin.com to developers.

Chinese telecom operator China Unicom (CHU) has opened a social networking services website called u-powerbook.com, targeting at the young users of its Up-Power brand.

Chinese mobile handset company Ramar will embed the GyPSii location and social networking application on the forthcoming range of the company's "amsam" Windows Mobile devices.

China Mobile's (CHL) Sichuan branch has completed the mobile communications coverage in 21 cities, 451 towns and 4389 villages that were affected by the May 12 Wenchuan earthquake along with the 492 temporal residences and China Mobile will invest about CNY5.6 billion for post-disaster reconstruction.