NEWS BRIEF

Beijing: Google must obey rules even if it withdraws

A government spokesman said yesterday that Google (GOOG.NASDAQ) must comply with Chinese policies even if it closes its China operations, the South China Morning Post reported. "On entering the >>more...

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Google, China possibly to solve dispute

Eric Schmidt, the Chief Executive of Google, told reporters Google and China will resolve their differences over censorship and an alleged attack on Google's service "soon." >>more...

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Google likely to exit China

Google (GOOG.NASDAQ, GOOG.NYSE) is likely to take action to close the main portion of its China operation within weeks, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing an anonymous source familiar with the >>more...

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Vimicro may break even this year

Chinese chipmaker Vimicro International (VIMC:NASDAQ) may break even this year thanks to increasing domestic sales after two consecutive years of losses, Bloomberg reported citing comments by Vimicro >>more...

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Google could end its China censorship within weeks

Censorship of Google (GOOG.NASDAQ) searches in China could stop within weeks, but the company is unlikely to leave the country entirely, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with >>more...

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37 robots to serve Shanghai World Expo

Thirty seven multi-functional robots, which are customized to serve the visitors of Shanghai World Expo, have already been demonstrated up and working. >>more...

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Alliance for CDMA

China Telecom, a major telecom service provider, announced it has co-launched a CDMA industrial alliance with more than 100 other companies from cell phone design and making to software and content providers. >>more...

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Negotiations with Google one-sided

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology refuted China has been involved in any negotiations with Google although the US search engine threatened on January 21 to pull back from the country. >>more...

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China Unicom may have iPhones with Wi-Fi

Unicom Chief Executive Chang Xiaobing has said China Unicom is working with Apple to introduce iPhones with Wi-Fi wireless internet capability to China. >>more...

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China Mobile confirms SPD Bank stake purchase, cooperation talks

China Mobile is near to finalizing a 20% stake purchase in Shanghai Pudong Development Bank (SPD Bank) worth US$5.85 billion, the South China Morning Post reported. China Mobile chairman Wang >>more...

COLUMN

Rude awakening

The dreams of foreign web companies are over; we are on the cusp of an all-Chinese internet, says our resident tech pundit >>more...

BLOG

Great idea, shame about the squabbling

What's the point of the government owning all the telecoms companies if they can never agree on a single standard to use between them? >>more...

HOUSE EDITORIAL

Lenovo is back

Lenovo is back in the black, but it can't rely on its domestic advantage indefinitely >>more...

HOUSE EDITORIAL

Stunned silence: Beijing mulls a response to Google

Google's announcement that it would stop censoring online searches in China and consider pulling out of the country was not simply remarkable for the way it dispensed with the standard corporate >>more...

HOUSE EDITORIAL

Mixed messages

The courts once ruled against Yahoo, but Baidu gets off without a punishment >>more...

COLUMN

What is the internet crackdown about?

Is Beijing's campaign against internet obscenity linked to a new media strategy? >>more...

HOUSE EDITORIAL

Blame game

China takes the heat for recent computer attacks >>more...

COLUMN

A second look at why it makes sense for Google to quit China

Two interesting theories argue that it makes perfect sense for Google to quit China >>more...

HOUSE EDITORIAL

Google threatens post-attack China pull out

Google's announcement that it might pull out of China came as quite a shock. We know that things haven’t gone completely smoothly over the past couple of years for the search engine but to >>more...

COLUMN

Bye-bye Google.cn

My prediction: Google will close its Chinese search engine, but that may not be the last we hear of it >>more...