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In this Jan. 15, 2010 file photo, people use computers at an Internet cafe in Fuyang in central China’s Anhui province. Google is hiring dozens of marketing and technical employees in China to defend a shrinking market share against local rivals after closing its Chinese search engine six months ago this Wednesday, Sept. 22 in [...]

Google’s share of the Chinese search engine market fell in the second quarter while the US Internet giant was embroiled in a public battle with Beijing over censorship, a research firm said Wednesday. (c) 2010 AFP

China has defended its right to censor the Internet, saying it needed to do so to ensure state security, and cautioned foreign governments to respect and obey its online policies. The government’s white paper on the Internet in China comes after a very public row with Google over web freedoms, which prompted the US firm [...]

(AP) — Yahoo e-mail accounts belonging to foreign journalists appeared to have been hacked and Google’s Chinese search engine was intermittently blocked because of an internal change Tuesday, the latest troubles in China’s heavily censored Internet market. ©2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Google, Google, Google — what hath ye wrought? The shock waves from Google’s China stance continue to reverberate across the InterWebs, as Beijing reacts to Google’s defiance and the rest of the world watches. What else happened this week? Well, we learned just a bit more about how insane anally compulsive obsessive Apple is about [...]

Google, seemingly torn between Chinese censorship and Chinese opportunity, is now “99.9 percent” certain that it will shut down its Chinese search engine, Google.cn. According to a Financial Times source “familiar with the company’s thinking,” the search giant, having reached an apparent impasse with the Chinese government officials, has drafted detailed plans to close the [...]

Motorola will start loading Microsoft’s Bing search and map services onto its Android smartphones in China, bringing more non-Google services to the phones amid a row between Google and China. It is the second time since Google said it would stop censoring its search results in China that Motorola has turned to a Google search [...]

Google and the Chinese government are once again discussing the fate of the search giant’s presence in that country, according to a report. The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that talks have resumed after a pause for the Chinese New Year. It’s been about six weeks since Google forced a showdown with the government by [...]

China on Wednesday said Google’s Android operating system will not be blocked if it follows local regulations, after speculation that Google’s threat to leave China could hurt the adoption of Android there. Google last week said it had postponed the launch in China of two mobile phones using Android, in an example of how its [...]

China on Monday dismissed accusations of any official involvement in hacking attacks on Google and other U.S. companies, adding to tension between the two countries over the issue. A Chinese official also defended online censorship of political topics and said the country would not change how it regulates the Internet, according to the official Xinhua [...]