Chinese environmental groups on Thursday singled out iPhone maker Apple Inc for failing to properly oversee its Chinese suppliers, leading to poor environmental and work conditions, and dozens of factory workers being poisoned.
Apple Inc's earnings in China quadrupled in the first fiscal quarter of 2011, hitting $2.6 billion, China Business News reported Thursday, citing the company's Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook.
Government officials and China's online game providers said on Wednesday that the industry will not sustain rapid growth if it fails to innovate and rid itself of repetitive online games.
The number of people using the Internet in China rose to 457 million at the end of 2010, up 73.3 million from a year earlier, the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) announced Wednesday.
E-commerce has become the fastest-growing Internet activity in China after the number of online shoppers increased by almost 50 percent to 160 million last year, the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) said on Wednesday.
China's online group purchase market is expected to reach 16.5 billion yuan ($2.45 billion) in 2011, accounting for about one percent of all online retail sales, according to a recent industry report.
Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, a Chinese telecom equipment maker, Tuesday celebrated the official opening of its Canadian Headquarters in Markham, Ontario.
China's State-run Xinhua News Agency on Monday launched an e-reading platform with telecom equipment maker Datang, setting foot in the country's increasingly competitive e-reading industry.
An air ticket home during the Spring Festival holiday is not only hard to obtain, but also expensive. However this year, Cui Yi, who works at an environmental consultancy in Chengdu, southwest China, managed to get a cheap ticket for her aunt, who is visiting from Beijing.
China Telecom Corporation aims to increase the number of its 3G users to 35 million this year, and 10 million of them could be 3G smart phone users, Wang Xiaochu, chairman and chief executive officer of the company, said on Tuesday.
E-commerce turnover in China jumped 22 percent in 2010 from a year earlier to 4.5 trillion yuan ($681.82 billion), an industry report said on Tuesday.
More than 100 domestic and overseas companies that provide online mapping services have received licenses to continue doing business in China, while another 100 were still applying for a license, a senior official said on Tuesday.