U.S. electronic-commerce developer Commerce One Inc. yesterday announced it has lined up partnerships with seven major regional companies to kick off the China and Hong Kong hub of its Global Trading Web, an international business-to-business procurement exchange.
Oracle Corp. will team up with a unit of Hong Kong carrier Cable & Wireless HKT Ltd. to build a business-to-business e-commerce marketplace for Greater China, the companies announced today.
The Chinese government last week set up its first official news Web site, 21 Dragon News Network, according to official media.
Sony Computer Entertainment (SCEI) has taken back PlayStation 2 game consoles from some users for testing, though it has stopped short of issuing a recall of the hot new product or its memory card, a Sony representative said yesterday.
Windows 2000 has been approved by Chinese government authorities and will go on sale in China on March 20, Microsoft Corp. announced late last week.
U.S. Internet holding company Internet Capital Group is staking a claim on the fast-growing Asian e-commerce market by teaming up with Hutchison Whampoa Ltd., one of Hong Kong's biggest conglomerates, the two companies announced at a press conference here yesterday.
U.S. Internet holding company Internet Capital Group is staking a claim on the fast-growing Asian e-commerce market by teaming up with Hutchison Whampoa Ltd., one of Hong Kong's biggest conglomerates, the two companies announced at a press conference here today.
Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products N.V. (L&H), a major voice-software vendor, has agreed to buy dictation and call-center company Dictaphone Corp., L&H announced today.
The Third Session of China's Ninth National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing, which began meeting this week, is considering a motion for a broad e-commerce law that would govern security, taxation, and establishment of an electronic payment system, according to the official People's Daily newspaper.
GraphOn Corp., a Silicon Valley maker of software for server-based computing, has formed a joint venture with Chinese conglomerate Tianjin Development Holdings Ltd. to bring the software to China's companies, schools, and government agencies, the companies announced this week.
Dell Computer Corp.'s Asia-Pacific chief today unveiled plans for the coming year to boost online sales in the region and expand the company's operations in China.
Hong Kong financial firm Sun Hung Kai Securities Ltd. yesterday launched a financial information Web site and an online strategy aimed at creating a personalized financial services site for each user, the company announced at a press conference yesterday.
A Hong Kong developer of Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) software and a Singapore carrier solutions provider yesterday teamed up to make it easy for mobile phone operators to provide robust WAP services.
China Construction Bank this week established a 500 million renminbi (US$60 million) fund for high-tech startups, taking one of the first forays into high-tech venture financing by a Chinese state-owned bank, according to a report in the official China Daily newspaper.
Best-of-China.com Inc., a U.S.-based startup, this week announced plans for an Internet commerce platform for the sale of thousands of products from China to consumers in that country and around the world.