Nokia has announced that starting from August 19, 2011, it will terminate its Ovi email and chat room services on the Chinese mainland.

Chinese online news and video media service Phoenix New Media Limited filed its F-1 statement with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission in a bid to raise up to USD200 million in an initial public offering.

Youku.com and Tudou.com, along with about a dozen competitors, are known as the Chinese versions of YouTube. But beyond the common ability for users to upload videos to Youku.com, Tudou.com, and YouTube, the Chinese and Western business models face different futures.

Chinese Internet search engine firm Baidu.com and the School of International Business of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou have jointly announced the launch of an elective course in search engine marketing.

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.

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CCTV.com, the official website for China Central Television, has sued Chinese Web portal Tom.com for illegal broadcasting of the 2009 Spring Festival Gala and asked the defendant for CNY1 million in compensation.

In a move that seems like eBay's subsidiary PayPal might be contemplating a Chinese acquisition, Chinese independent third-party online payment company 99bill.com has signed an agreement with PayPal to jointly improve its international payment efficiency and promote international trade settlement.

The China Internet Illegal Information Reporting Centre has published a list of the second batch of websites which provide "vulgar" Internet content.

By ChinaTechNews.com Editorial Team The uproar this week over Chinese Internet search engine Baidu.com's (BIDU) pharmaceutical paid search listings and advertisements gives further reason to believe that stock analysts should drop the "yst" from their monikers and Baidu's management should be hung out to dry.

Wang Leilei, former CEO of Tom Online, will become chairman and CEO of struggling Chinese wireless value-added services firm KongZhong (KONG) from October 13, 2008 and the company's current CEO and chairman Zhou Yunfan will step down from the positions on the same day.

Tom Group says Wang Leilei has resigned his posts as vice president and executive director of Tom Group, CEO and director of Tom.com and director of Tom-eBay.

Hong Kong's TOM Group Limited, an amalgamation of various online and offline media entities, announced its interim results for the six months ended June 30, 2008.

JaJah, an American Internet phone service provider, has launched a voice service that can automatically transforms itself between Chinese and English, showing the company's intention to enter the Chinese market.

According to foreign media, Joost, an American online video service provider, will cooperate with Tom Group to establish a joint venture in China and provide online video services to Chinese netizens.