David Wei, chief executive of Alibaba.com, the world’s largest online marketplace for trade between companies, is close to an acquisition in China. Our illustration is of the founder, Alibaba’s CEO Ma Yun. David Wei said, “We are relatively close to making an announcement in the coming months” on mergers and acquisitions. He added the […]
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Dell is developing a wireless device for China Mobile, China’s largest cell phone carrier. Matthew Parretta of Dell said the company showed a “proof of concept mobile device prototype” at a China Mobile event in Beijing. However, Dell officials have declined to provide details about a Dell phone, nor when it will be introduced. Or, indeed, […]
China Mobile’s new online application store lists a Dell device alongside other smartphones, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Dell and China Mobile have not yet formally announced that the Dell mini3i smartphone, Dell’s first venture into smartphone manufacturing, will be sold by China Mobile in China. However, China Mobile’s online application store lists the phone […]
China Unicom buys 5 million iPhones from Apple, ready for sale in September. Or no it did not We promised, seriously promised, not to write about iPhones in China until it was a done deal. Came the news it was a done deal. It read: "China Unicom, the potential exclusive distributor of iPhones in China, […]
The industry and information technology minister, Li Yizhong, said the notion that the program, called Green Dam/Youth Escort, would be required on every new computer was "a misunderstanding" caused by poorly written regulations. If this is the case, the American press had a field day with the misunderstanding. You would have thought the barbarians were […]