Friday the 13th did not play well for Apple today, as the company suspended the sale of its iPhone 4S smartphones in its Chinese retail outlets. Earlier today, a legion of scalpers waiting in line had a few fierce conflicts at the Sanlitun Apple Store in Beijing. This apparently caused Apple to announce that they [...]

Li Yue, president of China Mobile, said that by the end of October 2011, China Mobile has signed wireless city construction agreements with over 160 cities in 26 provinces in China, of which nearly 150 cities in 22 provinces had completed construction of basic wireless city platforms. At the same time, the company has developed [...]

After an upgrade, Apple changed the terms of use of its App Store in China and has started accepting Yuan-denominated settlement in the country. At present, Apple's App Store supports Renminbi payments with bank cards and credit cards issued by various Chinese banks, including China Merchants Bank, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, China Construction [...]

Cloudary Corporation, the wholly-owned Internet literature subsidiary of Shanda Interactive Entertainment Limited, has announced a strategic investment in Byread.com, a Chinese mobile reading platform, and the two parties will implement cooperation in providing copyrighted contents in China. According to official statistics from Cloudary, at present Cloudary has put over 10,000 books on the client of [...]

Chinese mobile browser developer UCWeb has officially established a new subsidiary in New Delhi, India, and the company launched its latest UCWeb 8.0 version for Android in the country. Yu Yongfu, chairman and chief executive officer of UC, said that they see great traction in the Indian mobile Internet space, especially with the increase in [...]

Alipay.com, Alibaba's third-party Internet payment subsidiary, and Newegg.com.cn, the Chinese branch of the U.S.-based Internet electronics and digital products retailer, have reportedly formed a strategic partnership. According to reports in Chinese local media, the two parties will enhance their cooperation in market operations. The will promote convenient login and convenient payments; and the two companies [...]

Chinese Internet company Tencent has announced at its e-commerce annual meeting that the company plans to launch a B2B2C platform in the fourth quarter of 2011. The new platform is currently under development. It will adopt a new brand logo and will be operated synchronously with Tencent's existing C2C website, Paipai.com. Wu Xiaoguang, senior executive [...]

Chinese e-commerce group Alibaba will soon launch a new cloud mobile operating system.

Chinese classified information website Ganji.com has updated its mobile client from the 1.0 version to 2.0, aiming to provide users with a better mobile Internet experience. Yang Haoyong, chief executive officer of Ganji.com, said that the company has invested a lot since the founding of its mobile Internet business department in September 2010. However, they [...]

China Telecom's Beijing branch has published a report, stating that it will open a mobile phone payment function for its eSurfing 3G users. With this new function, users can inquiry about their bank card balances, pay mobile phone fees, pay credit card bills, and transfer money between bank cards with their mobile phones. They can [...]

Chinese online and wireless media company Sina Corporation says its profit fell on higher costs as it announced its unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2011. For the first quarter of 2011, Sina reported net revenues of USD100.2 million, compared to USD85.0 million for the same period last year. Of that [...]

The Russian innovation company i-Free has announced in Beijing that it will launch its top mobile phone applications products in the mainland China market. These products include PowerAMP Music Player, a non-game application; some casual games produced by Alawar Entertainment, an international publisher and distributor of casual games; Smartive, i-Free self-developed mobile software which help [...]

China Internet Network Information Center has published the 27th China Internet Development Report, stating that by the end of December 2010, the number of Chinese netizens had reached 457 million, an increase of 73.3 million compared with the same period in 2009. The report also said that the number of mobile Internet users in China [...]

China Unicom has reportedly started the public test of its online application store Wostore and the platform will be formally put into operation later this month. With the formal launch of Wostore, China's three major telecom operators will all have their own application stores. At the same time, the online application market will become a [...]

Chinese consumers seeking an easy way to purchase the new iPad or iPhone now have an easier path to part with their money. Apple has launched the Apple Store in China, and the company now offers Chinese consumers an online method to purchase products. "We are thrilled to open our newest online store in China," [...]

A representative from China Unicom's product innovation department revealed that the operator's mobile phone payment service is undergoing trial use in four cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Chongqing, and the service will be formally put into commercial use in these cities from November 2010. The representative said that China Unicom's mobile phone payment service [...]

The China Telecom Chongqing branch has launched a new mobile payment platform for students, aiming to promote the information development on campuses via the Internet of Things technologies. With this platform, various cards, including student cards, cafeteria cards, and library cards can be integrated into mobile phones to realize real-time management and control as well [...]

Chinese online travel service provider eLong.com has officially launched its mobile reservation service in Beijing.
Users can now logon m.elong.com to make queries and book hotels and tickets.
Local media reports that eLong.com has been cooperating with Nokia and China Unicom on mobile reservation services since 2009. Its mobile website has been put into trial operation [...]

Guangdong Development Bank and China Unicom have signed a strategic cooperation agreement in Guangzhou to improve the financial information service of the bank.
According to the agreement, China Unicom and Guangdong Development Bank will cooperate in the launch of one-stop information application services, including the establishment of a mobile phone group network, wireless POS, 3G mobile [...]

After a half-year trial operation, Ctrip.com has launched its wireless mobile website m.ctrip.com. Consumers now can log on to the site via their mobile phones to book hotel rooms, buy airline tickets, and manage personal information.
Zhu Jianmin, senior vice president of Ctrip.com, stated to local media the WAP site is a complement to Ctrip.com's phone [...]