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Gaopeng.com, a Chinese group-buying portal launched by Groupon and Tencent, fired a vice president on Wednesday after discovering that some of its employees were found to have cheated in an iPhone lottery on Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter. Gaopeng last week held a lottery ...
Jiayuan.com, China's biggest dating website, fell on its first day of trading at the Nasdaq stock exchange. The Beijing-based company, known to the U.S. investors as " China's Match.com," sold 7.1 million shares at 11 dollars a share, the midpoint of its expected range of 10 to ...
Hugo Barra, the company's product management director, speaks during a keynote speech at the Google IO Developers Conference in San Francisco, California, on Tuesday.[Shanghai Daily] Google Inc's lucrative online advertising system is facing a US Justice Department probe that is ...
Huawei Technologies is making an aggressive push into the consumer electronics space, marketing its new smartphones and tablet PCs in glitzy Beijing malls and even a Milan fashion show as it seeks to emerge from decades of obscurity. Huawei is betting on Google Inc's Android ...
A Shanghai district court has ordered search engine giant Baidu to pay half a million yuan ($75,700) in compensation to Shanda Literature, an original content provider website, in a major copyright lawsuit case. The conviction is seen as a major boost for writers and publishers ...
Notice from the retail portal says it will compensate buyers three times the purchase price if goods bought on the website prove to be fake. [China Daily] China's largest online retail site Taobao.com said it will strengthen efforts to examine goods sold on its portal to further ...
A search system with the nation's largest patent database went online at the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) as part of its April 26 open house to mark World Intellectual Property Day. The result of two years of effort by SIPO software engineers, the system provides ...
China's battery and car maker BYD Co. Monday won government approval for its A-share listing on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, which aims to raise 2.2 billion yuan (US$338 million) for expansion. Under its mainland listing plan, approved by the China Securities Regulatory ...
China, the world's largest auto market, produced 6.43 million vehicles during the first four months of this year, up 5.09 percent from one year earlier, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) said on Tuesday. Sales of China-made autos rose 5.95 percent year on ...
Visitors examine a newly released Volkswagen AG Beetle on display at the Auto Shanghai 2011 show. China's vehicle imports in March hit a new record of 97,900 units, according to statistics from the General Administration of Customs. New data show that China's sluggish automobile ...
The prices of China's farm produce continued to fall in the week ending May 8, but at a slower rate than that of the previous week, the Ministry of Commerce said Tuesday. During the week of May 2 to 8, the average wholesale prices of 18 types of vegetables dropped 3.1 percent ...
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said Tuesday that it had set targets for local governments to eliminate outdated industrial facilities in 2011. The MIIT ordered 18 industrial production sectors to cut production levels in 2011. The production cuts ...
China's wind turbine manufacturing industry will undergo significant changes in the wake of new industrial restructuring guidelines which will come into effect on June 1. China's wind power industry, which has developed by leaps and bounds over the past five years, will have to ...
China's Ministry of Transport and Ministry of Railways signed an agreement on Tuesday to jointly promote the development of China's combined rail-and-waterway transportation network. The agreement, regarded by the Chinese government as a concrete step in the establishment of a ...
China, the world's largest auto market, produced 6.43 million vehicles during the first four months of this year, up 5.09 percent from one year earlier, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers said on Tuesday. Sales of China-made autos rose 5.95 percent year on year to ...
China Telecom Corp Ltd said on Tuesday that it will raise the number of WiFi hotspots to 1 million by the end of 2012 to meet rising demand for mobile Internet. The plan is part of China Telecom's February campaign to promote broadband in the domestic market for the next three ...
Microsoft Corp Tuesday said it has agreed to buy the popular Internet telephone service Skype Technologies SA for US$8.5 billion in the biggest deal in the software maker's 36-year history. Buying Skype would give Microsoft a potentially valuable communications tool as it tries ...
Google on Tuesday launched its long-awaited cloud-based music service Music Beta without any label licenses it originally wanted. The search giant introduced the digital music locker service at its annual I/O developer conference in San Francisco. So far, only U.S. users can ...
Microsoft Corp. on Monday said it will buy Internet communications company Skype for 8.5 billion U.S. dollars in cash, a bold move for the software giant to explore new business opportunities. "Skype is a phenomenal service that is loved by millions of people around the world," ...
Chinese telecom companies that have expanded into overseas markets are taking an increasingly tough line in defending their intellectual property rights (IPR) and fighting off the IPR claims of overseas rivals. The latest case involves Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, the world's ...
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Bill Gates talks nuclear
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