Days after it was reportedly attacked by Iranian hackers and the company's chief technology officer quit, Chinese search engine Baidu.com has tried to change its wayward momentum with a newly inked joint venture with a Japanese e-commerce website.

UTStarcom has entered into an agreement with United States government agencies, agreeing to pay a combined USD3 million in penalties and fines for bribes in China.

The Nasdaq-listed AsiaInfo Holdings has announced plans to acquire Linkage Technologies International Holdings Company Ltd., a software and IT service provider in China, for USD730 million.

Chinese semiconductor foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation has announced that it reached an agreement with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited.

Chinese PC maker Asus has jointly announced with IBM that the two parties have signed a cross-licensing agreement to enhance their cooperation and to end the protracted patent infringement dispute between the two.

Matches during the upcoming National Football League season in the United States will be streamed via an intranet targeting Chinese university students.

For about a day, businesses and computer users have been complaining about the near-shutdown of Internet services in China. According to information from China Unicom, due to the FNAL/RNAL cable breakdown caused by Typhoon Morakot last week, the Internet communication between China and other countries and regions such as the United States and Europe has [...]

Chinese B2B e-commerce group Alibaba has announced that is has gained over one million registered users in India.

Technology security company Symantec says Hong Kong received the highest level of spam of any region or country in the world as the company published its latest report.

U.S.-headquartered non-profit software industry organization Business Software Alliance has revealed that the software piracy rate in China has decreased from 90% in 2004 to 80% in 2008.

GE Healthcare has been working hard in China to find technology solutions that can be used around the world, and now the company is planning to market a China-developed medical device to health practitioners in the United States.

Beijing-based Anchiva is integrating Commtouch GlobalView URL filtering into its Secure Web Gateway product.

According to the latest statistics published by China's General Administration of Press and Publication, China's Internet game publication industry achieved actual sales of CNY18.38 billion in 2008, a year-on-year increase of 76.6%, and it brought CNY47.84 billion direct income to China's telecommunications and technology industries.

Chinese electronics retailer Five Star Appliance, a majority owned subsidiary of U.S.-based Best Buy, has restructured its scope of operations by switching to a wholly foreign-owned company business license.

Hong Kong's Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, which has 60 hotels throughout China and around the world, says the global financial crisis has pushed it to now offer all guests free Internet services.