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McAfee has announced deals with Baidu.com, China's top search engine, and China United Telecommunications (China Unicom) the country's second-largest mobile operator, as also the establishment of a new R&D centre at Shenzhen, as part of its effort to boost company business in the fast-growing Chinese market. Speaking at a press conference in Beijing, Lawrence Wee, McAfee's president of Asia-Pacific, said, "China is a very significant market for us, and the reasons for that are kind of obvious." The country's expanding Internet market and the widespread adoption of mobile devices make China an important market, he said. While Baidu will offer McAfee's antivirus software through a newly established online store, China Unicom will offer McAfee antivirus protection on a subscription basis to users of its Lucky Mailbox mobile e-mail service, McAfee said. Wee said that the company will do business in China only through its partners, and that it would not sell to companies or consumers directly. McAfee also announced the establishment of a new research and development centre in the southern city of Shenzhen. The new centre will develop security products for mobile devices.
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