Posts Tagged with ‘china’

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

First, let me point out that there is in fact a difference – a big difference - between censoring the Web and shutting it down completely (or at least a portion of it), as has been done in Myanmar, or Burma, as it is more familiarly known. Yet I think you’ll agree that both measures [...]

There is so little positive news from China these days and this is particularly true with regard to Web news. Censorship, hacking, prostitution issues and a host of other maladies seem to be plaguing China and its Internet. Just today it was reported that a man dropped dead in a Chinese cyber café after playing some [...]