industry

China's software industry has registered strong output growth over the past ten years, soaring from 75 billion yuan (11.6 billion U.S. dollars) in 2001 to 1.3 trillion yuan in 2010, the National Copyright Administration said in a statement issued on Thursday. The number of ...
Intel Capital, the global investment arm of the chipmaker Intel Corp, announced on Wednesday that it has invested $22 million in three Chinese technology companies this year. It will also invest in least six more in the coming five months. The three companies are the Shanghai...
Shares in Beijing Enlight Media Co Ltd, a private media company, surged more than 40 percent from the offering price of 52.5 yuan ($8.16) on its stock market debut on Wednesday, in what analysts said was a sign of things to come as many entertainment and media companies go public...
China's petroleum and chemical industry maintained sound growth in the first half of 2011, with output value up 34.4 percent to reach a record high of 5.32 trillion yuan (825.84 billion U.S. dollars), the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said Tuesday. The ...
The China Iron and Steel Association said Tuesday that it will start a trail run of its iron ore index some time in August. Zhang Changfu, vice chairman of the association, said in a statement on the association's website that the index will be officially launched in October, and ...
Nasdaq-listed The9 Ltd yesterday announced it will cooperate with China's three mobile operators to provide them mobile game content and products in their online application stores. Shanghai-based The9 signed an agreement with China Unicom to provide products and services for its ...
Micro-blogging service Twitter on Monday announced that it has received a "significant" new round of funding, confirming weeks of speculations. "Now we have an opportunity to expand Twitter's reach with a significant round of funding led by the venture firm DST Global, with the ...
China Mobile Ltd cut international roaming fees charged for 38 countries and regions by as much as 80 percent on Monday in the hope of maintaining high-end users' loyalty amid the increasingly intense domestic competition. The carrier, which had 616.8 million mobile subscribers ...
Great Wall Motor may follow the example of electric car maker BYD Co by becoming another Hong Kong-listed company to turn to the Chinese mainland's market to help fund expansion. Great Wall has applied to China's securities regulator to sell as much as 304.2 million A shares in ...
Guo Shunhong, a 21-year-old from Beijing Institute of Technology, enjoyed making an energy-saving car over the past 14 months. The futuristic, streamlined vehicle, which began life as a sketch on a piece of paper, maximizes fuel-efficiency, Guo and his co-workers said with pride. ...
The connection between Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, China's biggest telecom equipment maker by revenue, and Italian Supercoppa (Italian Super Cup), does not only rest on the fact they share the same birth year. Established in the southern coastal city of Shenzhen in 1987, Huawei ...
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd reached an agreement on Friday with Yahoo! Inc and Softbank Corp, its largest shareholders, ending a four-month spat over how to compensate investors after an ownership change in China's most popular online-payment service. Alibaba, which transferred the ...
Apple has ousted Nokia as the world's largest smartphone maker as global mobile phone market grew more than 11.3 percent in the second quarter of 2011, according to two separate market research studies. After becoming the largest smartphone vendor in terms of revenue and profits, ...
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has issued draft regulations instructing Chinese Web sites to respect personal information protection policies, Chinanews.com reported Thursday. The blueprint outlines different types of infringement of personal ...
Hong Kong-based media conglomerate eSun Holdings Ltd unveiled on Thursday its new entertainment arm, Media Asia Group Holdings Ltd, after completing the buyout of film production and distribution company Rojam Entertainment Holdings Ltd. The move will allow the company to provide ...
China's booming automobile market over the past two years has not only led it to overtake the United States as the world's biggest, it has also enabled US car makers to weather stagnant domestic sales caused by the financial crisis. General Motors Corp, which recovered from ...
China's expenditures on logistical services totaled 3.7 trillion yuan (around 570 billion U.S. dollars) in the first half of 2011, an increase of 18.5 percent year-on-year, statistics showed. The spending accounted for 18 percent of the country's gross domestic product (GDP), the ...
Alibaba Group launched its first self-developed mobile operating system and smartphone on Thursday in a bid to capture a slice of China's rapidly growing mobile Internet market. The smartphone, K-Touch Cloud Smartphone, will be launched at the end of July and will use Alibaba's ...
An increasing number of Chinese online games are expected to gain an overseas presence in the next few years, supported by government policies. The General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP), the country's publishing regulator, will encourage 100 domestic online games ...
A regulation that requires bars, restaurants, hotels and bookstores to install expensive Web-monitoring software has sparked controversy among business owners and the public. The software, which is designed to supervise illegal activities by passing the identities of customers ...
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