As per recent reports, it has been revealed that a licensing deal has been signed, which will allow cloud services of Microsoft's Office 365 and Windows Azure to be available in China. Things would not have been possible if the deal would not have been finalized by 21Vianet Group, a local data center service provider.

Within days of its $60 million settlement of a long-running legal dispute over the iPad trademark with Chinese struggling monitor firm Proview, Apple has now announced that its new iPad will hit the China stores on July 20.

In a Tuesday statement pertaining to the Chinese availability of the new iPad, Apple said that the company's popular tablet - which was launched in the US in March - will be priced at a range of between $499 and $829, depending on the storage capacity of the device as well as its wireless-connection compatibility.

One of Google’s corporate blogs quietly announced on Thursday that the company has brought on a new tool to its search page to help users sidestep China censors --- with the software twist alerting Google’s mainland China users when they type in search terms which trigger an "interruption" of service to the search engine.

A Chinese court on Wednesday dismissed Apple's request to declare it the only legal owner of the iPad trademark in China.

The Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court rejected Apple's claim that Chinese firm Proview Technology was illegally using the iPad name. The court ruled that Proview Technology had legal right to use the iPad name for its product as it had registered the trademark in China as well as many other countries as back as 2000.