Shanghai is gearing up to be an international corporate capital to rival New York, Hong Kong, or Singapore, says IT Time Weekly. Even if that's a ways off in the future, the city has still left Beijing far behind since the country's accession to the WTO in 2001...

China Netcom is ready to partner with Shanghai Media Group, which has an IPTV license, and is poised to expand its test broadcast area from one to twenty-one cities. By including Beijing in these twenty new cities, Netcom is throwing down the gauntlet for the city's dominant television provider, Gehua CATV Network. Gehua has been involved in discussions with the Beijing government over digital television development for quite some time now, and China Netcom's move puts pressure on it to find a solution or be left behind...

Since Baidu was sued by four major record companies in September for offering access to copyright-violating music downloads, China's major search engines have all been scrambling to find solutions that won't cause them to lose significant amounts of traffic. Chongqing Economic Times reports that Baidu has reached agreements with 16 record companies concerning its MP3 search function. While none of the seven companies that have sued Baidu in the past are on this list, analysts believe that this is just the first step in Baidu's plan...