EBay's online payment subsidiary PayPal is negotiating with the Chinese B2B e-commerce group Alibaba, aiming to introduce its online payment service in China into Alibaba's worldwide site of AliExpress.

The Taiwanese manufacturer of thin film transistor liquid crystal display panels, AU Optronics, has entered into an agreement with Field Emission Technologies and FET Japan, Inc., to transfer technology from FET, a company specializing in field emission displays technology that is part owned by Sony Corporation.

Taiwanese Macronix International Company has announced that it has introduced the industry's highest performance 1.8V 4-I/O serial multi I/O Serial Flash memory.

Taiwan-based PC maker Asus has announced that the company made a net profit of NTD6.497 billion, which equals CNY1.37 billion, in the third quarter of 2009, higher than its expectation of NTD2.97 billion.

Taiwan-based Hon Hai Precision Industry has announced plans to invest at least USD1 billion to build a new plant in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province.

According to China's National Bureau of Statistics, the entrepreneur confidence index in China increased to 120.1 in the third quarter of 2009: an increase of 9.9 points compared with that of previous quarter.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has published its net sales for August 2009 and states that on an unconsolidated basis, its net sales decreased by 6.8% over the previous year to NTD28.89 billion.

Taobao.com, the Internet shopping subsidiary of the Chinese B2B e-commerce group Alibaba, has announced the formal launch of Tao1shop.tw in Taiwan.

Taiwan-based Hon Hai Precision Industry and the international technology company Hewlett-Packard have reached an agreement with the municipal government of Chongqing on the construction of a plant for the production of notebooks and relevant devices.

Taiwan-based United Microelectronics Corporation has announced that its revenue in June 2009 increased by 1.6% year-on-year to NTD8.24 billion and its revenue in the first half of 2009 decreased by 32% to NTD33.47 billion.