More Internet companies in China are turning to private share placements for funding that they could previously raise only from initial public offerings in overseas stock markets, Bao Fan, chief executive officer of China Renaissance Partners, said.
Intel Capital Corp, Intel Corp's global investment vehicle, announced last week its first storage investment in China to develop its cloud-computing capability.
More Chinese are disconnecting their fixed-line telephone service and turning to mobile phones, according to China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).
Baidu Inc, the owner of China's most popular search engine, has "plenty of room" to expand, according to Chief Executive Officer Robin Li, after some analysts projected slowing growth at the company.
For the first quarter, Baidu reported net income of $163.5 million, or 47 cents per American Depository Share, and its first sequential decline in profit in over a year. Analysts had estimated earnings per ADS of 45 cents.
A mobile Internet user can find friends, take advantage of discount offers and then have dinner or go to a karaoke bar together, thanks to rapidly changing mobile phone Internet technology, Innovation Works Chairman and CEO Kai-Fu Lee said.
Huawei Technologies Co Ltd aims to more than triple its annual sales to about $100 billion in the next five to 10 years as it expands into cloud computing and small-business networks.
Apple Inc announced the white iPhone 4 would hit the shelves on Thursday in 28 countries and regions including the Chinese mainland, Sina.com reported.
Baidu Inc is taking on Tencent Holdings Ltd and Sina Corp in a scramble to gather application developers worldwide by fully opening its platform and offering a sizeable fund package.
Chinese telecom gear maker Huawei Technologies has already kicked off the production of optical network transmission equipment in a plant in Chennai of South India, said Justin Chen, CEO with Huawei Technologies India Pvt Limited on Wednesday night.
Sina Corp, China's largest Internet portal, has no immediate plans to list its microblog operations, its chief said on Wednesday.
Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, the world's No 2 network equipment maker, expects growth in revenue to slow in 2011, but still reach the $100 billion mark in a decade, driven by the sales of telecom devices and smartphones.