Liu Hong, co-founder and chief operation officer of Letv.com, revealed to Chinese local media that Yuan Bin, former vice president of online video website Iqiyi.com, has joined the company as co-CTO.

Placing dogma over commerce, China's Internet overlords have apparently been throttling down the speeds of Internet activity within China over the past few days as the National Congress of the Communist Party of China gets underway in Beijing.

Wang Xiaochuan, chief executive officer of Sogou.com, said that the company's revenue from search engine, website navigation, and games were USD22 million, USD7 million, and USD1 million, respectively, in the second quarter of 2012.

Chinese Internet video providers Sohu video, Tencent video, and Iqiyi.com have together established an organization named Video Content Cooperation to implement deeper cooperation in resource sharing, platform development, copyright protection and broadcasting sector growth.

Google has formally launched the advertising trading platform DoubleClick Ad Exchange in China, aiming to help Chinese advertising networks, agencies and Internet publishers to realize real-time trading of Internet display advertising.

Whether related to the rumored murder charges against the wife of former Communist elite Bo Xilai or the earthquakes in Indonesia and Mexico over the last day, one thing is for sure: Internet connections to websites outside of China were intermittently not available to many users in China today.

By merging their Chinese online video businesses, the leaders of Youku and Tudou have done something their comrades at other Chinese Internet companies have failed to do. Youku and Tudou have placed their business interests above their egos.

Han Kun, co-founder and vice president of the Chinese video website Ku6.com, has confirmed to local media that he has resigned his positions in Ku6.com and started a new business in the mobile Internet industry.

The Internet video channel of the Chinese Internet portal Sohu.com and the Taiwan-based PC maker Asus have jointly announced that the two parties have formed a strategic partnership for a video service.

Chinese online game developer and operator Changyou.com Limited and its majority shareholder Sohu.com Inc. have jointly announced that the two parties have entered into a definitive agreement under which Changyou.com will acquire 17173.com, a leading gaming information portal in China, from Sohu.com for USD162.5 million.

Chinese online media and entertainment company Sohu.com Inc. announced record total revenues of USD233 million, up 42% year-over-year and 17% quarter-over-quarter, as it reported its unaudited financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2011.

Amid a thunderous drop in Chinese companies' market capitalization in recent weeks, Tudou.com has filed an amendment to its filing for an initial public offering in the United States to raise money for its online video operations in China.

In the middle of flak concerning alleged securities fraud, Chinese financial services software firm Longtop Financial Technologies Limited announced that its chief financial officer, Derek Palaschuk, who was previously CFO at Chinese Internet firms Sohu.com and eLong.com, has resigned.

Chinese online media company Sohu.com Inc. says its revenues rose by 35% over last year as it reported its unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2011.

Chinese online media company Sohu.com Inc. reported its unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2010, and said that while wireless revenues fell, online game and search engine revenues increased.