Chinese technology giant Lenovo Group held a launch ceremony in Beijing to announce a new cloud computing strategy, a new smartphone, a tablet computer, a new personal computer, and TV products.

Chinese Internet security solutions provider 360 has published a commitment for user privacy protection and announced at the same time that it will submit its source code to China Information Technology Security Evaluation Center for hosting and testing.

As news that Tom Online has ended its relationship with Google, the Chinese Internet community Tianya.cn has now announced that as a result of Google's relocation of its Chinese business from the Chinese mainland to Hong Kong, Tianya.cn will suspend cooperation of several projects with Google.

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.

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.

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.