Posts Tagged with ‘china’

If you somehow managed to keep up with the goings on of the broad international news space throughout 2007, you know there’s one topic in particular that received copious amounts of attention. No, not that Mexican repellant them paranoid repubs and loose-limbed dems signed off on. Nor the tinderscape that was/is southern California. Darfur? Nope. (Too bad, though. It sure would’ve been good to see the American media juggle that ball a tad bit more.) Pakistan? Nah. The year was [...]

I’ve been known to rag on Yahoo! here at Profy far more often than praise or glorify the company. But hey, as the saying goes, you gotta call ‘em as you see ‘em, right?
And the media on the whole has rightly pilloried the Web giant for a number of its controversial actions and statements; some more egregious than others, of course. I mean, come on. Divulging sensitive information to Chinese authorities about dissident voices? Despite the threat of [...]

You know, you really want to root for the underdog. You think, okay, Google’s basking in its record profits and empirical glory, so you’ll take a little time to cheer it’s Sunnyvale-based foe, Yahoo!, regardless of whether it’s really got anything in its arsenal to rejoice over.
But it’s getting so effin’ hard to throw a good word out for Number Two these days. First there was the China debacle it got slapped by a US congressional panel for a [...]

We’re all aware of China’s affinity for censorship. Well, actually, the Chinese government’s affinity for censorship, to be more accurate. Whether its eyes are on the nation’s print news industry, its booming digital media space, or public displays of disaffection, the ruling party and its expansive and very loyal ranks of law enforcers enjoy keeping things as nice, tidy, and uniformly in line with their concepts of allegiance and order as possible.
And let’s face it, a good number of folk [...]

It looks like Yahoo! finally "caved" in the lawsuit alleging that the Internet company cooperated with China in prosecuting dissidents. Yahoo! took a lot of heat for helping the authoritarian government earlier this year. The plaintiffs, Wang Xiaoning and Shi Tao, have agreed to withdraw their complaint in U.S federal court in California. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed, but since the congressional grilling and apology from Yahoo! - it appears the lawsuit was settled once public dismay [...]

In the last few years, Yahoo! has tread through a considerable number of less-than-stellar quarters – some of which have been marked by particularly unsavory moments – and only in recent months has it begun to make pointed attempts at salvaging some grace, honor and fortitude with the divestiture of some ailing and markedly unimpressive products and services, and through numerous public admissions of error by it’s new chief, company co-founder Jerry Yang. (Most things aren’t his fault specifically, [...]

Reuters, having very recently documented the mere purchase of an Internet domain by Facebook, effectively opened a large window into the mind of the chief executive of the Web’s second-largest social network.
The name in profile is, very simply: 'Facebook.cn'.
The suffix tells you everything, doesn’t it? Yes, Facebook is now revealed to have made itself the owner of a China-compatible Web address, which it is quite likely to use as, well, the gateway for its future Asian operations. Obviously.
Why [...]

For over a year now, tech companies with origins in the US who’ve made significant headway in China’s market since the start of the new millennium have been residing under a sort of gray cloud, what with the controversy (now having more or less been pushed to the back burner of issues of great public concern in America) surrounding their seemingly unsatisfactory compliance with investigations of citizens of the PRC. Compliance meaning the transfer of valuable information to authorities upon [...]

Yahoo!, in an effort to establish a greater presence in the Chinese online market, is planning to purchase a 10-percent block of stock shares in China’s largest online commerce company, Alibaba, in a sale arranged by the Asian giant. The move is being viewed as something of a responsive measure made to counteract Google’s increased involvement in the Chinese market. In the past, Google created headlines worldwide as a result of its involvement with the reigning megalith of the continent, [...]