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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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," [...]

According to China's Vsens, the wholly-owned customized terminal subsidiary of China Unicom, its new customized 3G smartphone, XT701, made by Motorola, is now ready for sale.
This is China Unicom's first smartphone product based on the latest Android 2.0 platform and the product, with Wi-Fi function, is sold at the price of CNY4,299.
Consumers who are interested [...]

Taobao.com, the Internet shopping subsidiary of the Chinese B2B e-commerce group Alibaba, has announced that it will cooperate with China Mobile to launch a new mobile phone short message-based price comparison service.
With this new service, mobile phone users will be able to inquire about the prices of goods sold on Taobao.com when they are shopping [...]

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 [...]

China Telecom Beijing branch has opened a flagship store on the Internet e-commerce website Taobao.com, providing 3G terminal products such as 3G network interface cards, 3G mobile phones, and 3G netbooks as well as communications services such as wireless broadband service, 3G wireless packages, and voice service packages.
Compared with products sold in China Telecom's business [...]