Chinese Internet search engine company Baidu Inc. and Japanese communications giant NTT DoCoMo have established a joint venture in Japan. According to reports in Chinese Internet media, NTT DoCoMo will buy two batches of newly issued shares of the joint venture this year, totaling USD22.5 million. Baidu and NTT DoCoMo will finally own a 80% [...]

The Open Data Center Alliance announced that China Unicom Group has joined the steering committee of the organization, and Chinese search engine Baidu.com has become a contributor member. Steering committee members are responsible for charting the course of the Open Data Center Alliance. China Unicom Group joins BMW; Capgemini; China Life; Deutsche Bank; JPMorgan Chase; [...]

China's first mobile phone platform for blind people has been formally launched via Baidu.com's search engine open platform, aiming to help the blind make phone calls, send messages, and even surf the mobile Internet more easily. Developed by Cao Jun, chairman and CEO of Beijing-based Protection & Ease and who is also a blind person, [...]

Chinese search engine Baidu.com and mobile phone software organization Symbian Foundation are working together to expand Baidu's "box computing" concept to wireless applications.
The two parties announced a strategic initiative where they will co-establish a joint laboratory to stimulate the development and launch of wireless "box computing" tightly integrated with the Symbian platform.
Box computing refers to [...]

Baidu Wireless, a service of Chinese search engine Baidu, has signed a proposal letter with about a hundred of mobile internet service providers in China — including Sina.com — on creating a green mobile Internet.
The parties call for joint actions be taken among the industry to purify Internet information and create a green mobile internet [...]

Motorola has announced plans to open an Android applications store, Shop4Apps, in China to further [...]

Youa, Chinese search engine company Baidu.com's online shopping platform, has announced that China Telecom Beijing has opened an official flagship store on its website, focusing on 3G mobile products.
To enable China Telecom Beijing to complete registration and open its online store as soon as possible, Youa has opened an express channel for the company. The [...]

MediaTek, the Taiwan-headquartered semiconductor company for wireless communications and digital multimedia solutions, has announced plans to invest USD2.5 million in the Chinese mainland mobile phone software platform company, Vogins Technology.
MediaTek currently has adequate funding and plans to enhance its technological advantages by merger and acquisition. In the past, the company's targets were mainly hardware companies, [...]

Chinese Internet search engine Baidu.com has reportedly achieved cooperation with several mobile phone companies, including Samsung, Lenovo, Tianyu, and MediaTek, to further enhance its leading position in China's wireless search sector.
Early in 2006, Baidu.com already cemented strategic cooperation with the international mobile phone giant Nokia to provide Nokia's users with convenient access to Baidu.com's wireless [...]