Yahoo Sued Over Support Fund for Dissidents
In 2007, U.S. tech company Yahoo set up a $17 million fund to support persecuted Chinese...
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LatestApple Hosting User Data on China-based Servers
Reuters’ Gerry Shih and Paul Carsten report that Apple has started storing data for Chinese...
Alibaba I.P.O. Could Benefit Princelings (Updated)
In another report looking into the accumulated wealth of the families of China’s political...
Journalist Shi Tao Released From Prison
The New York Times’ Neil Gough reports the release, 18 months early, of journalist Shi Tao,...
Alibaba’s Ma Says Tiananmen Comparison Misunderstood
Jack Ma, founder of e-commerce giant Alibaba, has complained of “a terrible misunderstanding” after he allegedly compared his own management style with Deng Xiaoping’s handling of the 1989 June 4th crackdown....
Google Removes Search Filter Notification
In May, Google users in China who searched politically sensitive terms discovered a new feature when they used the search engine: a pop-up notice informing them why their search yields no results, and that the filtering is out...
Censorship Vault: Beijing Internet Instructions Series (27)
In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet...
Yahoo! Dissident Wang Xiaoning to be Released
Wang Xiaoning is to be released from prison on Friday following a ten-year sentence for “inciting subversion of state power” in a series of online essays. Wang was one of around 60 people prosecuted on the basis of...
CDT Money: Positive Breeze Amid Diplomatic Firestorm
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s arrival in Beijing for a fourth round of Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED) with several high-ranking members of the Chinese leadership took...
Alibaba's Ma: "Very Interested" in Buying Yahoo
Speculation is mounting over the future of Internet giant Yahoo after Alibaba CEO Jack Ma expressed a desire to buy the company, which currently owns a 40% share in Alibaba. From Reuters: Asked whether Alibaba might like to pick...
Groupon in China Not an Unqualified Success
Danwei’s Jeremy Goldkorn writes for TechCrunch on a Global Mobile Internet Conference session in which Groupon’s invasion of China became a “How Not To” guide, with a succinct conclusion by Baidu’s...
Soros Takes Stake in China’s Alibaba
The Financial Times reports: George Soros has become one of Alibaba.com’s largest shareholders after buying into the company late last year, according to the Chinese e-commerce provider. The involvement of the US billionaire...
Andrew Jacobs: I Was Hacked in Beijing
New York Times reporter Andrew Jacobs writes about his experience when he became one of several foreign journalists in China whose Yahoo accounts were hacked: I’d been hacked. That phrase has been popping up a lot lately on Web...
Foreign Journalists in China Seek Answer from Yahoo on Email Breach
After their Yahoo accounts were hacked this week, several foreign journalists have tried unsuccessfully to get a response and explanation from Yahoo. The Washington Post blog talks to freelance journalist Kathleen McLaughlin:...
Google Takes Blame for China Search Failure; Yahoo Accounts Hacked (Updated)
Google explains that recent errors with search queries for even harmless terms are due to a technical error and not government censorship. From the Financial Times: Users based on the Chinese mainland could still access all...
Yahoo Sides with Google over China Cyber Attack
Yahoo! officials have spoken out in response to Google’s claims of a cyber attack on their network. From CNNMoney: “We condemn any attempts to infiltrate company networks to obtain user information,” a Yahoo...
Yahoo Lands on China’s ‘Vulgar Content’ List
The Wall Street Journal reports on the latest list of “vulgar” websites released by the China Internet Illegal Information Reporting Center, which included a Yahoo! site: The list referred to user-generated content...
Internet Firms Create China Code of Conduct
From Wall Street Journal: Microsoft Corp., Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc., in negotiations with other Internet companies and human-rights groups, reached an agreement on a voluntary code of conduct for activities in China and other...
