Taobao.com, the Internet shopping subsidiary of the Chinese B2B e-commerce group Alibaba, has announced that it has started to deploy offline authorized stores to provide convenience to consumers who do not wish to shop online.

Shenzhen-based ZTE Corporation, a global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, has announced the launch of two new data cards as part of its high speed packet access product family.

Sino Fibre Communications, a broadband and value added Internet services provider in China, announced that it has entered into a memorandum of understanding with P2P Cash Inc. to explore the business opportunity for integrating the P2P Cash mobile commerce features into an advanced international barter trading platform.

Alisoft, the software subsidiary of the Chinese B2B e-commerce giant Alibaba, has announced that the company will initially invest over CNY100 million to set up a cloud computing center in Nanjing, Jiangsu and to invest more in the next few years to promote the e-commerce applications development of Chinese small and medium-sized enterprises.

Though Global Sources was able to increase total revenue 11% and online revenue 19% compared to the third quarter of 2007, its profit for the third quarter of 2008 sunk over the same period of last year as it reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2008 and notified shareholders that its [...]

To better regulate online transactions in China, the Ministry of Commerce has drafted and is soliciting comments from the public on two new rules: the E-commerce Pattern Regulation and Online Shopping Service Regulation.

Chinese Internet trading website Alibaba.com and China Construction Bank have jointly launched a low-interest loan service for medium and small Chinese companies.

Chinese Internet auction users have a new service to help protect them from fraud as Alipay, China's largest independent and third-party payment platform, has announced the launch of a seller credit program in cooperation with China Construction Bank.

Chinese Internet search engine Baidu.com has announced expansion of its agreement with the China Patent Information Center of the State Intellectual Property Office to supply authoritative and professional patent searching services for netizens, starting on January 1, 2008.

General Electric has reached a strategic cooperation with Alibaba and it will spend millions purchasing the online promotion service offered by the online trading platform.