Spansion, the US-listed maker of flash memory chips, has struck a deal with China's SMIC in a bid to get closer to China's electronics industry. Flash memory is a cut-throat business and the pricing pressures are increasing as Chinese electronics companies make great inroads into the mobile phone and consumer electronics markets...   more »

The BlackBerry, the de rigeur handheld device for alpha males, has finally arrived in China. Chinese regulators did not approve the BlackBerry handsets for sale in China until the first quarter of this year and Canada's RIM, the manufacturer, had to team up with Alcatel-Lucent, which has a Chinese JV, to get the device approved...   more »

Tibco, the US software company, has strengthened its relationship with China's Worksoft in the latest development that shows the growing maturing of China's software development industry. Tibco specialises in middleware -- the "plumbing" of business software projects -- and this arcane area of the software market has not historically been seen as a big opportunity in China...    more »