HONG KONG (Reuters) – China Mobile, the world's biggest telecom carrier by subscribers, said on Wednesday it is negotiating with Apple Inc to carry the popular iPhone in China. China Mobile is the only Chinese operator that does not officially carry the iPhone because its homegrown 3G technology is not …
BEIJING (Reuters) – Al Jazeera has closed the China bureau for its English channel after Chinese authorities refused to renew its correspondent's visa, marking the first time an accredited foreign correspondent has been forced to leave the country in over a decade. Melissa Chan had reported from Beijing for Al …
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Yahoo Inc could be weeks away from selling 15 percent to 25 percent of Alibaba Group's stock back to China's largest e-commerce company, in a deal designed to eliminate complexities that had scuttled the parties' previous negotiations, a person familiar with the matter said. The two …
BEIJING (Reuters) – China will expand real-name registration for microblog users, the government's propaganda and information arm said on Wednesday, in its latest step to better control China's wildly popular Twitter-like websites. Officials acknowledge that microblogs are useful as an outlet for critical public opinion, but have repeatedly accused them …
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – The number of Internet users in China have crossed the half billion mark, reaching 505 million users at the end of November last year, the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) reported. (read on….) Related items China Internet users top half a billion, many more to go …
BEIJING (Reuters) – A campaign to curb “excessive entertainment” by slashing the number of racy programs on Chinese satellite television channels has been successful, state media reported, after President Hu Jintao warned Western culture was out to attack China. The broadcast regulator ordered the two-thirds cutback in October, taking particular …
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Internet must be subject to “reasonable regulation,” the head of Russia’s Security Council said in remarks published on Wednesday, a fresh sign of Kremlin concern about the use of social networks to promote anti-government protests. Opposition groups and ordinary Russians used Facebook and the Russian site …
SUZHOU, China (Reuters) – One of the worst cash crunches in decades is hitting Chinese companies, but for Pan Zhengqiang, borrowing money recently has been as smooth as the well-oiled machines at his widget factory in the farmlands surrounding Suzhou. In China, bank loans are mostly off limits to small …
BEIJING (Reuters) – China has more than 300 million registered microbloggers, state media said Monday, one of its fastest growing groups of internet users that the government has vowed to control. The country has the most internet users in the world, at 485 million, the official Xinhua news agency said, …
HONG KONG (Reuters) – China Mobile Ltd, China’s largest mobile carrier, said on Monday that its total mobile subscribers increased to 638.89 million in October, including 45.33 million 3G subscribers. China Mobile said on its website that 3G subscribers rose by 2.17 million in October, while total users increased by …
