The total number of mobile phone users in China have increased to 929.84 million, reports PTI. This figure was attained in the first seven months of 2011, as 70.83 million new subscribers were added during these months by the mobile phone operators.
According to Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) China, the service providers in the country received $87.6 billion as revenues. The telecommunication sector collected business revenues of 559.46 billion yuans ($87.6 billion) in …

China is now approaching the one billion mark for its mobile phone subscriber base, ballooning to an estimated 930 million (929.84 million) users for the period January-July this year.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) announced today that local mobile phone operators earned $87.6 billion (559.46 billion yuan) in business revenues for telecommunications services in China on account of 70.83 million new subscribers for the first seven months of 2011.
The reported revenue …

China revealed on Thursday that it has joined forces with authorities from the U.S. to take down a network of child pornography sites, in a rare cyber crime bust operation alliance between the two countries.

China has revealed that it has worked with U.S. authorities in a rare joint operation involving cyber crime. Image: futureatlas.com / Flickr (CC)

The news comes via the public security ministry which released the information in a statement which came out Thursday.
According to the Chinese …

Groupon’s China Joint Venture has expelled several workers for inefficiency reasons, reports Bloomberg. The company, which is competing for the customers in China, has not yet made this move public.
Groupon started Gaopeng.com earlier this year. Tencent Holdings Ltd provided financial support for it. Groupon is slowing making “progress” in the largest Internet users market of the world. The company is also planning to bring an IPO in the coming months. According to the sources, …

China has reportedly outdone the U.S. in terms of personal computer shipments, a new market analysis by research firm IDC reveals.

China PC shipments have exceeded U.S. PC shipments in the second quarter. Image: futureatlas.com / Flickr (CC)

According to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker report, the milestone happened this second quarter when China PC shipments surpassed U.S. PC shipments by nearly 1 million units.
IDC reveals that for the second quarter, 18.5 million PC units were …

After a widespread suspicion that China was behind what has recently been reported as the largest cyber attack discovered, one of its government agencies reported Tuesday that the country suffered from cyber attacks during the past year too.

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According to China’s National Computer Network Emergency Response Coordination Center, nearly 500,000 cyber attacks targeted computers in China during the past year.
Turning the tables, the agency revealed that a bulk of …

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Groupon Inc has made public its decision of firing the staff not performing well at its Chinese joint venture Gaopeng, reports Reuters.
Groupon partnered with China’s Tencent Holdings Ltd in February to enter the Chinese markets and has been facing stiff competition since then.
“As part of our normal process of establishing a high talent bar, we are optimizing our Gaopeng sales staff …

A recently busted Chinese smuggling ring used a long zip line which spans almost 1,000 feet to transport Apple iPads and iPhones from Hong Kong to Shenzhen City, various reports reveal.

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According to the Chinese publication DailySS, the smuggling ring was busted on August 3 by Hong Kong and Shenzhen police and customs officers.
A report from Yahoo!’s Tech Blog says that the smugglers used the line tied to a house in Hong Kong and a unit at a …

I talked for about 30 minutes yesterday with Neo Zhang, General Manager of Application Store Connect (ASC), a company that prepares and distributes mobile apps to partner app stores, primarily for China’s mobile market, and powers the HTC marketplace in China.
 

ASC is a primary channel where consumers can safely download apps

ASC launched in the first quarter of 2010 and Mr. Zhang joined the company shortly after, relocating to Beijing from Connecticut in the United States where he …

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Security firms Kaspersky Lab and Symantec has revealed their doubts about the scale of what McAfee revealed at the Black Hat convention as the biggest cyber attack the world has ever seen to date.
According to a report from PC World, Alex Gostev, Kaspersky’s chief security expert, has told them that there is certainly doubt about it being the biggest cyber attack in history.
“The …