Apple suspended the sale of its iPhone 4S smartphones in its Chinese retail outlets.

The B2C e-commerce website Dangdang.com reportedly plans to launch a new e-book business channel in the second half of December 2011.

Chinese electronics and home appliances retailer Suning has released its performance report for the third quarter of 2011, stating that from January to September 2011, the company's e-commerce business grew rapidly and realized sales of CNY4.079 billion.

More than 1,000 suppliers, publishers, and Internet retailers, including Dangdang.com, Microsoft, Aigo, Wyeth, Lock & Lock, the Commercial Press, and the People's Literature Publishing House, have jointly published an "Internet Retailing Honesty Declaration" in China.

According to the quarterly monitoring of China's Internet B2C market released by Analysys International, in the fourth quarter of 2007, the total market scale of China's B2C business reached RMB1.297 billion, an increase of 9% compared with the same period of 2006. Dangdang, Joyo Amazon and 360buy were among the top winners.