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Sina Microblog Launches Nine Versions Of Mobile Client

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 20:43:50 +0000

Weibo, the microblog division of the Chinese Internet portal Sina.com has announced that it will cooperate with four leading mobile sites which provide mobile phone software download services in China to launch nine new versions of microblog client around the New Year. These new version can reportedly support iPhone, iPad, Symbian, and Android mobile devices. [...]

Chinese Q3 Wireless Revenue Climbs For Linktone

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 23:20:25 +0000

Chinese wireless value-added service firm Linktone Ltd. unveiled its unaudited financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2010, and stated that gross revenues climbed, but profit was still small. The company had gross revenues of USD19.8 million, representing 17% sequential increase compared with USD16.9 million in the second quarter of 2010, and 43% [...]

China's Sina.com Publishes First Microblog White Paper

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 23:47:39 +0000

Chinese portal website Sina.com has published its first white paper targeting the Chinese microblog market. The white paper reveals that by the end of 2010, there will be over 65 million registered active accounts in the Internet microblog sector in China; by 2011, the number will be over 100 million. Statistics show that Sina's microblog [...]

Wireless Revenues In China Sink For Linktone

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:51:35 +0000

Embattled Chinese wireless services firm Linktone Ltd. announced its unaudited financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2010, and showed a drop in both revenue and profit. Linktone's gross revenues for the second quarter were USD16.9 million, compared with USD19.0 million in the first quarter of 2010 and USD18.3 million in the second [...]

Mobile Revenue Falls In China For Sina.com As Company Sees Overall Growth

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 22:54:32 +0000

Chinese online media company Sina Corporation today announced its unaudited financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2010, and stated net revenues grew 10% year over year. Sina reported net revenues of USD99.4 million, compared to USD90.3 million for the same period last year. Advertising revenues for the second quarter of 2010 were USD73.1 [...]

Mobile Revenues Sink While Internet Ads Increase In China For Sina.com

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Mon, 17 May 2010 23:13:02 +0000

Chinese online media portal and mobile value-added services firm Sina Corporation announced its unaudited financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2010, and stated its net revenues grew 15% year-on-year. For the first quarter of 2010, Sina reported net revenues of USD85.0 million, compared to USD73.8 million in the same period in 2009. Advertising revenues [...]

Ctrip.com Launches Mobile Website

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 22:31:10 +0000

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 [...]

2.1 Billion Mobile Messages Sent Daily In China Last Year

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:01:19 +0000

Information from China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is that in 2009 a totalmore....

Nokia, Pearson: Foreign Companies Running Blindly Into China's Wireless Internet Sector

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:54:16 +0000

Just weeks after China's largest telecommunications operator halted paying firms for some wireless services, two [...]

New Chinese Mobile Content Rules Will Adversely Affect KongZhong's Revenue

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:07:18 +0000

Chinese wireless value-added services firm KongZhong Corporation has issued an update on schemes within the [...]

KongZhong Admits Chinese Wireless Porn Crackdown Will Hurt Revenue

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:33:20 +0000

It takes guts to be the first to admit a failure, and Chinese wireless value-added [...]

Crackdown Continues: China Exposes Providers Of Vulgar Internet Content

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:31:16 +0000

Just days after China Mobile slammed shut the ability for wireless value-added service providers to [...]

Porn Fighter: China Mobile Halts All WAP Fees

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:37:22 +0000

In an effort to fight mobile pornography, Chinese telecom operator China Mobile has announced that it suspended all of its WAP service partners' ability to charge for services as of November 30, 2009. This applies to all of its WAP wireless value-added service partners in China, regardless of a partner's ... Read More>>

Linktone's Wireless Revenue Crashes In China

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:00:37 +0000

Wireless value-added services revenue precipitously dropped in the third quarter ended September 30, 2009, for [...]

China's Kingsoft Launches New Website For Mobile Phone Users

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:06:24 +0000

Chinese software, security, and online game provider Kingsoft has announced the formal launch of its wireless Internet site, wap.shouji.cn, providing various mobile phone application services to users who surf via mobile phones. Li Wanqiang, general manager of this new website, told local media that as the mobile phone WAP site of Kingsoft, the new website is [...]

Chinese Telecom Operators Invested CNY80 Billion In 3G During H1 2009

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:05:56 +0000

According to Zhu Jun, deputy director for the communication development department of China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, in the first half of 2009, China's three major telecom operators totally invested about CNY80 billion in 3G projects. Zhu made the remarks to local media and said since the issuance of the 3G licenses in China, [...]

Chinese Mobile TV Arrives In Hainan

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:02:59 +0000

Vacationers in China's sunny Hainan province will soon have more opportunity to take their multimedia with them to the beach, thanks to an agreement inked between UTStarcom and Hainan Telecom. This first large-scale mobile TV system in China will adopt UTStarcom's end-to-end RollingStream platform. The deployment is scheduled to go live on May 17, 2009, as [...]

Peoples Changes Name To China Mobile Hong Kong

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 20:01:20 +0000

The telecommunications company Peoples, China Mobile's subsidiary in Hong Kong, announced that the company has changed its registered name to China Mobile Hong Kong from December 5, 2008, though its service brand Peoples will be maintained.

Previously a company owned by China Resources Group, China Mobile Hong Kong officially launched its ... Read More>>

Linktone Reports Weak Wireless Revenue, Widening Operating Loss In China

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:33:58 +0000

Chinese wireless value-added services company Linktone (LTON) is fighting the tide of sinking wireless fortune as its unaudited financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2008 show it only recorded revenues of USD19.1 million, compared with USD20.5 million in the first quarter of 2008, and an operating loss ... Read More>>

China Telecom's CDMA Tender Results Unveiled

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:03:18 +0000

The results of China Telecom's (CHA) CNY27.9 billion CDMA network tender has been disclosed and the major parts of the contract have been gained by Huawei, ZTE and Alcatel-Lucent, which received about 40%, 40% and 20%, respectively.

Apart from these three major companies, Fujian Fujitsu Communication Software Co., Ltd. gained the ... Read More>>