In 2008, it launched the China African News Service while in April last year it teamed up with telecommunications firm Safaricom to start a mobilenewspaper in Kenya.
The Sun's lawyer said the newspaper accepted that her mobile phone "should not have been accessed" and added: "There has been a serious misuse of her private information".
This from the likes of a bakery operation in Spain, a Dutch newspaper group, a Rumanian mobile phone company and in the U.S., the fashion clothing companies of Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger.
Mr Snook will become executive chairman when Orange is floated together with other mobile assets of France Telecom later this year, according to UK newspaper reports.
Rumours went around earlier this week that the fruity firm was getting a cheap mobile ready for market, but marketing chief Phil Schiller told a Chinese newspaper that Apple was doing no such thing.
Chinese mobile device maker HTC has been chosen to manufacture two new Facebook -branded smartphones, according to London financial newspaper City A.M.