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...appears to be leading to the demise of its Chinese-language search business. Beijing was never going to negotiate with Google on the issue of censorship - particularly not after the U.S. government hitched its wagon to Google's cause, in the form of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Jan. 21 speech on Internet freedom. In fact, only in the past few days has anyone from the Chinese government even conceded publicly that Beijing was talking to Google at all. But on March 13, Li Yizhong, head of China's powerful Industry and Information Technology Ministry, made sure there...
Google's stunning pronouncement in January that it would no longer censor Google.cn may have given a thrill to human-rights activists the world over, but a lot of investors were - and remain - furious. Since posting the announcement on its website on Jan. 12, Google's stock price has declined from $595 to about $567, while Baidu, the leading search engine in China, has seen its stock price rise by 50%. (See pictures of life in the Googleplex...
...reason for that is obvious. Jan. 12 was, in effect, the starting point for the next phase of competition in China's search market - the battle for Google's share, which is about one-third in terms of search revenue. The most obvious potential foreign beneficiary is Bing, Microsoft's new search entry. And while Bing may not exactly have been handed the keys to a very rich kingdom, the executives there understand their good fortune - and have not been shy about subtly sticking the knife into Google. On March 17, Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer, told...
...Since Jan. 12, Google's primary mission when it comes to its China operations has been damage control. What, if any, of its businesses beside search will survive? So far, it appears that Chinese adopters of Google's new Android operating system - including China Mobile and China Unicom, the two dominant mobile-phone companies - still have the government's permission to utilize the platform. But the future of other businesses that Google is involved with in China - for example, TOP 100.cn. a music portal funded by Google and several big music labels - is unclear...
...legislation was sponsored by the Slovak National Party, an ultra-nationalist outfit whose controversial leader, Jan Slota, is known for his xenophobic slurs, which are often aimed at the country's ethnic Hungarians. But Slota maintains that he doesn't just want to instill more patriotism among the Hungarian minority -he wants Slovaks to have more pride in their country, too. (Never mind the fact that his own knowledge of the anthem proved spotty in an interview last week when he confused some of the words and got the author wrong.) "The children's relationship to their nation, to their...