China

Wall Street Journal | Jason Dean and Owen Fletcher | January 3, 2011 Is China’s government going after Skype? Media reports over the past week have raised that prospect in relation to a government clampdown on “illegal” voice-over-Internet-protocol, or VoIP, …

Wall Street Journal | December 31, 2010 | Owen Fletcher and Aaron Back BEIJING (Dow Jones)–China Mobile Ltd. (CHL) said Friday it will start large-scale testing of a domestically developed fourth-generation mobile communications technology, having received approval from regulators. China …

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. has released the E398 modem, which claims to be the first tri-mode LTE modem. The E398 modem supports LTE, 3G and 2G network technologies. The Chinese vendor says it has already shipped the new equipment to …

StockBriefings | Sammy Daniels | January 3, 2011 Nokia Corp. (NYSE:NOK) Siemens has revealed delays in Motorola network assets acquisition. Nokia Corp. (NYSE:NOK) stocks are currently standing at 10.32. Nokia Corp. (NYSE:NOK) Siemens Networks, a joint venture between Nokia Corp. …

PC Mag | Sara Yin | December 30, 2010 Skype may soon join Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube on China’s Internet blacklist. Today, The People’s Daily, a Communist Party-run newspaper, declared that all Internet phone services other than those provided by …

Bloomberg | Diana ben-Aaron and Katie Hoffmann | December 29, 2010 Nokia Siemens Networks, the world’s second-largest maker of wireless phone systems, said the wait for antitrust approval from China will delay the completion of its $1.2 billion purchase of …

Global Times | December 29, 2010 China UnionPay and various Chinese authorities plan to draft an online payment standard for Internet TV which is expected to be launched in the first half of 2011, according to a report of the …

Economic Times | December 23, 2010 LA PAZ: Bolivia has fined Chinese telecommunications equipment supplier Huawei $8 million for breach of contract, officials said. Public Works Minister Walter Delgadillo said Bolivian state telecommunications provider Entel collected on Huawei’s performance bond …

Reuters | By Narayanan Somasundaram and Adrian Bathgate | December 22, 2010 * Telstra to take $138 million writedown on China business * Telstra says other Asian investments performing well (Adds details, background) SYDNEY/WELLINGTON Dec 23 (Reuters) – Telstra Corp …

Trading Markets | Tue. December 21, 2010 BEIJING, Dec 21, 2010 (SinoCast Daily Business Beat via COMTEX) — On December 20, 2010, Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg was said to visit Baidu Inc. (Nasdaq: BIDU | PowerRating) and had lunch together …

LAS VEGAS, Dec. 20, 2010 | PRNewswire-Asia | Fuzhou Rockchip Electronics Co., Ltd (Rockchip) World’s first SOC to support VP8 HD Video Playback, support Internet TV Fuzhou Rockchip Electronics Co., Ltd (Rockchip) a Chinese leading semiconductor company, is releasing a …

BEIJING, Dec. 20, 2010 | PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall | Linktone Ltd Linktone Ltd. (Nasdaq: LTON), a leading provider of interactive media and entertainment products and services to consumers in China and Southeast Asia, today announced it will purchase, through the secondary market, …

China’s gray market cell-phone shipments will total about 255 million devices next year, up 11.8% from 2010, but nothing compared to the huge 43.6% surge between 2009 and 2010, proof that a government crackdown against the illegal handset sales is …

By Shane Romig | Published December 13, 2010 | Dow Jones Newswires BUENOS AIRES -(Dow Jones)- The Bolivian government has signed a contract with China Great Wall Industries Corporation, or Cgwic, to purchase a $300 million communications satellite, Bolivia’s state news agency ABI …