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Google Inc. formally opened an office in Singapore on Thursday, a long anticipated move that signals the company has its eyes on Southeast Asia.

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC), China's largest chip maker, Friday reported a profit for the first quarter thanks to a pair of one-time financial gains, but analysts remained unimpressed as the company fell short in several key areas.

CA Inc. has signed up outsourcing vendor Achievo Corp. to support its Chinese customers. The agreement, announced Tuesday, represents a shift for Achievo, which has so far focused its efforts on software development using .Net and Java for corporate clients, rather than vendor support.

Developing countries in Asia offer great potential for PC makers, but companies must offer better value for users if they are to be successful in emerging markets, according to an analyst.

Taiwan's Via Technologies Inc. Thursday released details of its upcoming Pico-ITX motherboard, which is roughly the same size as a credit card and opens the door to very small PC designs.

Fujitsu-Siemens Computers GmbH and EMC Corp. have agreed to extend a long-standing partnership by more closely integrating their respective products in a bid to improve customer satisfaction, the companies

Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. may be locked in a vicious price war over desktop and mobile chips, but that hasn't stopped Taiwan's Via Technologies Inc. from gaining ground in the market with its focus on low-cost processors that don't draw much power.

Sohu.com Inc. Tuesday threatened to sue Google Inc. for violating its intellectual property rights, and renewed a demand for the company to stop downloads of a Chinese software tool based, in part, on one of its own databases.