Alibaba Groups' online auction and e-commerce subsidiary Taobao.com is launching a new website focused on the sale of digital products in China.

Digital television provider NDS, a majority-owned subsidiary of News Corporation, has opened a new facility in Shenzhen to deal with research and customer support in the growing Chinese pay-TV market.

China Telecom (CHA) has initiated a unified bidding process for IPTV set-top box terminals to make preparation for implementing its new strategy following the acquisition of China Unicom's (CHU) CDMA network.

Lee Yoon-Woo, the newly appointed CEO of Samsung Electronics, said during his recent visit to China that he arrived to promote Samsung's environmentally-friendly strategy.

China Netcom (CN), one of the fixed line telecom service providers in China, has started a new program to hop into the Internet video market by signing agreements with eight media agents and content providers as strategic partners for the program.

Philips' NXP Semiconductors STB222 set-top box solution has been selected by Changhong to deliver AVS-compliant IP STB platform to manufacturers and Pay TV operators in Asia.

Envivio's 4Caster C4 encoders are being used in trials in Shanghai that combine AVS video encoding with China's standard for digital terrestrial television broadcasting for set-top boxes.

China's Huashu Digital TV is working with Oki Electric and Intel to jointly develop a Next Generation Hybrid Set-Top Box to serve the digital home market segment in China.

IPTV platform supplier Amino is opening an office in Shanghai as a focus for its China operations group, which provides local support for its manufacturing partners.

Motorola (MOT) has formally acquired the respective set-top box assets of Zhejiang Dahua Digital Technology Company and Hangzhou Imagesilicon Technology Company, but it has not disclosed any further details regarding the transaction.