EDITOR'S NOTE

Good afternoon,

Telstra today took further controlling stakes in two more Chinese mobile and online content companies.

The stakes are worth some $302 million, and the carrier is anticipating revenues from its China media businesses to hit $1 billion by 2013.

Oddly, as Sol Trujillo points out, Telstra wouldn't have seen that sort of revenue from the NBN within the timeframe - though he denied the purchases were motivated by Telstra's lack of involvement in the national broadband process.

-- Ry Crozier

TODAY ON ITNEWS

By Ry Crozier | February 11, 2009

Telstra may use the technology underpinning two Chinese mobile and online content businesses it acquired $302m controlling stakes in today to help scale up local operations at lower per-unit costs, chief executive Sol Trujillo said.

By Ry Crozier | February 11, 2009

Sydney start-up Leopard Labs may be forced overseas to secure additional investment as it seeks to finalise deals with carriers and mobile OS developers such as Microsoft.

By Iain Thomson | February 11, 2009

The US Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) has admitted that its servers have been breached and the personal data of its 45,000 staff may be at risk.

By Iain Thomson | February 11, 2009

CERN has announced that it is delaying the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) re-launch until September.

By Staff writers | February 11, 2009

Sun Microsystems has added an integrated LAMP stack and communications server add-on developed with Ericsson to its open source GlassFish Web platform.

By Iain Thomson | February 11, 2009

Dell is launching a new range of inkless printers aimed at the mobile user.

By Staff writers | February 11, 2009

Civica has snapped up Toowoomba-based Practical Computing Services and will use the newly-acquired office as its headquarters in Queensland.

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