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.

Chinese social networking website Xiaonei.com, which is owned by Oak Pacific Interactive, has announced the launch of its Open Platform program that will for the first time allow third-party developers to provide applications to the more than 22 million Xiaonei.com users.

Chinese Web 2.0 company Oak Pacific Interactive's Xiaonei.com announced on the cusp of the Chinese May 1 Labor Day holiday that its hard work had paid off in the amount of a US$430 million infusion of capital.

Youku.com, one of the many Internet video websites in China, has inked a deal with MySpace.cn that appears geared towards enhancing the websites' advertising clout.

Chinese Internet portal and instant messaging company Tencent has signed a strategic partnership for building and marketing a student-oriented social networking platform in China with Globe7.