Google Looks to a Cafe Society
Pacific Epoch reports:
Google China plans to cooperate with Internet cafes in Chengdu to promote Google services, reports West China City Daily quoting Google China president special assistant and strategy officer Guo Quji. The cooperating Internet cafes will set google.com as the homepage on their PCs as well as install the Google toolbar on their cafes’ [...]
Intel Inside Baidu’s Big Iron
Marbridge Daily, quoting China Securities Journal:
According to a source at Baidu, the search engine giant is secretly cooperating with Intel to build a lab to develop leading domestic web servers. Reportedly, the lab has already begun operations. Testing and engineering staff for the facility will be comprised of employees from both Intel and Baidu; hardware [...]
Chris Smith (R-NJ) Writes China’s Privacy Law
From PC Pro (hat tip to China Venture News):
The “Global Online Freedom Act of 2007″ was introduced by Republican Chris Smith in the wake of last year’s allegations that Yahoo had handed information to the Chinese government which had led to the arrest of two Chinese dissidents, an accusation vehemently denied by the company.
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Hijacking Searches: the Google Gets Baidu-ed
Agence France-Presse reports that Microsoft, Google and Yahoo search services are being redirected to Baidu, a Chinese competitor:
US Internet search engines in China were being hijacked and directed to Chinese-owned Baidu, analysts said Wednesday, speculating that the move was in retaliation for Washington’s award to Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama.
I haven’t seen this, [...]
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