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Google said last week that they are considering pulling out of China after a sophisticated attack on the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists.
Google have explained their new position on China in a lengthy blog post on the official Google blog. Here are some of the core messages from the post:
In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from…

When you think of Google, you no doubt think of world domination (in terms of search engines!), but this actually isn’t the case. Google isn’t the number one search engine in one of the world’s biggest country, China.
China’s most popular search engine, Baidu, accounts for around three out of four online searches and now it has just dealt Google another blow. Baidu have announced that many…

Google have something to smile about in China despite being banned recently by the Chinese Government.
It has been reported that Google China is poised to announce a revenue increase of 25% for the 2nd quarter of 2009.
Brand Republic also reported that Google China’s operating revenue increased by around 50% over the previous year.
This is great news for Google especially in such an unstable economy and with strong…
A new antimonopoly law in China could be the make or break for the proposed purchase of Yahoo! by Microsoft.
The New York Times has reported that the Chinese government is activating this new legislation from August 1 2008 and gives “Chinese regulators authority to examine foreign businesses investing in Chinese companies’ operations”.
The reason this new law could hurt the Microhoo deal is because Yahoo! invested $1 billion…
A former Chinese university professor plans to sue Yahoo! and Google in the United States for blocking his name from search results in China.
Guo Quan, became the chairman of the underground New People’s Party in opposition to the ruling Communist Party and last week issued a letter vowing to bring a lawsuit against Google after he discovered that his name had been removed from searches on…