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Google Butts Heads with China – Again

January 14th, 2010

According to the Google Blog,  China has crossed the line. In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google. However, it soon became clear that what at first appeared to be solely a security incident–albeit a significant [...]

 
 

China Slams Door on Google

June 29th, 2009

China is really cracking down on Google and associates, period. The Chinese government has apparently used the “Great Firewall” to block Google, YouTube and Gmail for a couple of days this week, according to a report from Fox News. Access to Google both in English and Chinese was blocked for part of Wednesday and Thursday in [...]

 
 

Microsoft Doesn’t Need Yahoo – The Untapped Eurasian Market

September 23rd, 2008

The split in search engine market share in the US can look like a pie cut into ten pieces. Microsoft has one piece, Yahoo has two more, and Google has seven. Microsoft plus Yahoo make just over a quarter of the pie, if the failed deal this spring had gone through – still not enough [...]