Taobao.com, the online shopping subsidiary of the Chinese B2B e-commerce group Alibaba, has formally launched its Taobao Partner plan, which has attracted over 20 partners.

The U.S.-based information services company Information Services Group, has announced that its business unit TPI, said to be the largest sourcing data and advisory firm in the world, has signed an agreement to help Huaqiao, a satellite zone of Shanghai, take the lead in expanding the outsourcing market in China.

HP has jointly announced with the Suzhou government that the two parties have signed a memorandum of understanding to set up a software outsourcing center in the city.

According to the latest statistics provided by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, China's software export reached USD4.93 billion in the first four months of 2009, a year-on-year increase of 48.2%.

U.S.-based consulting and outsourcing services company Amerson is setting up a global delivery center in Chengdu, Sichuan.

According to the latest statistics from China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the accumulated revenue of China's software businesses reached CNY697.73 billion in the first 11 months of 2008, a year-on-year increase of 30.8%.

The Unisys Global Services Center in Shanghai been awarded the Capability Maturity Model Integration level 3 rating for its process improvement procedures.

U.S. IT and services company CSC is to open a new information technology services delivery center in Tianjin.

Achievo Corporation, a software outsourcing and information technology services provider, has opened a new research and development center in Wuxi, China.

Software outsourcing and information technology services provider Achievo Corporation, has been awarded ISO/IEC 27001:2005 certification, the international standard for information security management, for its software development facilities in Tokyo, and Dalian.