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Google urges US to resolve China row

LONDON (AFP) – Google co-founder Sergey Brin urged the US administration to make the censorship row between China and the Internet giant a “high priority”, in an interview published on Wednesday.
Brin said human rights issues should be given “equal time” with trade concerns in comments published by British [...]

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Google deals in doubt amid spat with Beijing

BEIJING – A popular Chinese Web portal said Wednesday it is taking over operation of two services developed and formerly operated with Google just days after the search giant took a risky stand against China’s strict Internet censorship rules by moving its search engine offshore.
It wasn’t immediately clear what prompted [...]

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US: China should reflect on Google retreat

WASHINGTON – The United States is urging Beijing to “seriously consider” the meaning of Google’s decision to partially withdraw from China over Internet restrictions.
State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley told reporters Tuesday that the U.S. government played no part in the Web giant’s choice.
But he says that Beijing “should seriously consider the [...]

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China slams Google’s bid to defy censors

BEIJING (AFP) – The “Great Firewall of China” appeared intact on Tuesday as the government lashed out at Google for refusing to bow to strict censorship in the world’s biggest Internet market.
While angrily attacking Google, the authorities in Beijing said there should be no broader fallout on tense Sino-US ties provided [...]

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Chinese media chastise Google over threat to leave

BEIJING – China’s state-controlled media intensified criticism of Google on Monday, accusing the U.S. company of playing politics by threatening to shut down its China-based search engine.
Chinese news reports say Google Inc. is on the verge of making good on a threat to shutter its China site, Google.cn, because Beijing [...]

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Google says China talks continue, but pullout signs grow

SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) – Google said on Monday it remained in talks with the Chinese government about censorship of its Chinese-language search portal, despite mounting signs the company could soon shut the site.
Google Inc, the world’s biggest search engine, has been in a two-month standoff with Beijing over restrictions on the Internet and Google’s claims that [...]

Google “99.9 pct” sure to shut China search engine

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Talks with China over censorship have reached an apparent impasse and Google, the world’s largest search engine, is now “99.9 percent” certain to shut its Chinese search engine, the Financial Times said on Saturday.
It said in a report on its website Google had drawn up detailed plans [...]

Chinese minister insists Google obey the law

BEIJING – China’s top Internet regulator insisted Friday that Google must obey its laws or “pay the consequences,” giving no sign of a possible compromise in their dispute over censorship and hacking.
“If you want to do something that disobeys Chinese law and regulations, you are unfriendly, you are irresponsible and you [...]

Losing Google would hit Chinese science hard

LONDON (Reuters) – More than three-quarters of scientists in China use the search engine Google as a primary research tool and say their work would be significantly hampered if they were to lose it, a survey showed on Wednesday.
Google’s future in the country is uncertain following a row with Beijing, but Chinese [...]

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Schools in China say they weren’t behind hacking

SHANGHAI – Two prominent schools in China dispute allegations that hacking attacks on Google and other firms originated from them, a report said Saturday.
The New York Times reported late Thursday that security investigators traced the hacking to computers at Shanghai Jiaotong University and Lanxiang Vocational School in China.
The official Xinhua News [...]

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