Aiming to improve business efficiency and reduce costs, the Finnish communications corporation Nokia will relocate its Asia Pacific headquarters from Singapore to Beijing. A Nokia spokesperson previously said in an email to media that the headquarters relocation is expected to make Nokia's operation adapt to the business environment, so as to improve their competitiveness in [...]

Research In Motion, the Canadian smartphone maker known for its BlackBerry brand, announced that Alex Lambeek will become its new president for the China region. Prior to this, rumors were swirling that RIM would soon make adjustments to its Chinese market strategy. With this news, Gregory Shea, former president for RIM China, will become an [...]

Nokia Siemens Networks has announced plans to cut 17,000 employees around the world by the end of 2013, including about 4,000 mainland Chinese employees. This is reportedly the largest layoff in the history of Nokia Siemens. According to the company, it had about 74,000 employees worldwide by November 1, 2011, which means one out 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 [...]

Nokia has announced that it has appointed Gustavo Eichelmann the new head for China, effective from January 1, 2012. In the new role, Eichelmann will be responsible for Nokia's Chinese businesses, including sales, marketing, and the enterprise service departments. Eichelmann has over 25 years of working experience in the information technology and communication industry. Joining [...]

Nokia has announced that starting from August 19, 2011, it will terminate its Ovi email and chat room services on the Chinese mainland. Nokia said in emails sent to users that their mobile Ovi email accounts will be shut after August 19 and they will not be able to visit their Ovi emails or send [...]

Zhang Zhiqiang, president for Nokia Siemens Networks Greater China, has revealed to the Chinese local media that during the second quarter of 2011, the company's sales in China reached EUR402 million, a year-on-year increase of 13%. According to Nokia Siemens Networks' latest financial report, the company gained operating revenue of EUR3.642 billion in the second [...]

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has announced that during the second quarter of 2011, the company's shipments in China decreased by over 50% compared with the previous quarter and its operating losses reached EUR487 million. Nokia has recently published its financial report for the second quarter of 2011, stating that its performance in China and [...]

Nokia has confirmed that Liang Yumei, senior vice president for Greater China, South Korea and Japan, departed Nokia on June 1, 2011. It is understood that the candidate to succeed Liang has not been determined; however, the business previously operated by Liang will be temporarily taken over by Colin Giles, Nokia's global head of sales. [...]

U.S.-based Motorola Solutions Inc. has entered into an agreement with China's Huawei Technologies Company Ltd. to settle all pending litigation between the two parties pending the satisfaction of certain conditions. "We regret that these disputes have occurred between our two companies. Motorola Solutions values the long-standing relationship we have had with Huawei. After reviewing the [...]

Nokia Siemens Networks' latest financial report shows that during the forth quarter of 2010, its net sales in the Greater China region reached EUR506 million, a year-on-year increase of 20% and an increase of 63% compared with the previous quarter. According to the report, the company's total net sales in the reporting period was EUR3.961 [...]

AMD has announced that Deng Yuanjun, former deputy president of Nokia Global Group, will join AMD as its senior vice president and president of AMD Greater China, following the resignation of Karen Guo. Deng will reportedly assume his positions from February 2, 2011, and will be in charge of the implementation of AMD's global strategy [...]

Germany's Original 1 has set up a subsidiary in Beijing named Original 1 Tech Beijing Corporation to provide near field communication mobile authentication services. A joint venture founded by Nokia, SAP and G & D, Original 1 was registered and established in February 2010 and headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany. Its key employees previously worked in [...]

Taiwanese PC maker Acer will launch its online application store in 2011. Gianfranco Lanci, CEO of Acer, revealed to media that Acer's application store will support the full range of Acer products, including PCs, smartphones, and tablet computers. At the same time, its applications can be run on equipment using various operating systems, including Google's [...]

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 [...]

Nokia Siemens Networks, the international telecommunications hardware, software, and services company, has announced that it will deploy an IP Multimedia Subsystem core platform for China Mobile to offer IMS-based multimedia application services to the enterprise customers of this Chinese telecom operator. China Mobile has selected Nokia Siemens Networks to implement its IMS core platform, hiQ [...]

A representative from the Chinese telecom operator China Telecom has revealed that the company has stored seven million 3G mobile phones, covering over 60 types of 20 brands, for the launch of a summer promotion to entice Chinese consumers to buy new phones.
China Telecom will reportedly start the large-scale promotion before August 31, 2010, collaborating [...]

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 [...]

Chinese lifestyle information and classifieds listings website Ganji.com has announced that it has gained joint investments of USD20 million from Nokia Growth Partners and BlueRun Ventures.
Yang Haoyong, founder and CEO of Ganji.com, told local media that the company will enhance the applications of its lifestyle information on the mobile Internet. No matter where the users [...]

China UnionPay has collaborated with commercial banks, mobile communication operators, and mobile phone manufactures for the establishment of the Mobile Payment Industry Alliance in China.
The Mobile Payment Industry Alliance aims to break the barriers in different industries to set up a platform for communication and close coordination for Internet payment services. Parties of the alliance [...]