Once More, AOL Retreats from Mainland China
AOL has confirmed that the company has closed its China operations, according to the Wall Street Journal:
According to one of the reports, from Chinese language new portal Netease.com, some 100 employees in its Beijing office received layoff notices via email this morning.
While the AOL China Web site is still up, it hasn’t been updated since Tuesday.
Quoting people within the company, several Chinese Web sites said AOL will keep two or three employees in Beijing to deal with public relations. Phone calls to the office, located in the technology enclave of Tsinghua Science Park, weren’t answered. A poster on the front gate listed phone numbers for an outside public relations firm.
