PayPal suspends service in India
Halt temporary while company in discussion with partners and stakeholders to address service issues, says e-payment service provider.
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Social network Tweets to classes
Educator backs use of social media in classes, where students' familiarity with such tools will enable them to be knowledge workers in future.
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Chinese human rights Web sites suffer attacks
Attack brought down Chinese Human Rights Defenders' site and targeted four others amid a time when China's Web censorship is a hot issue.
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Asia among top search markets in 2009
Global search queries clocked 131 billion in December, with China and Japan ranked after the United States in search volume, according to ComScore.
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Baidu.com sues US domain registrar over hacking
Leading Chinese search engine blames Register.com for allowing a hack that left the site disabled and defaced.
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Free speech in face of '.cn' TLD crackdown
Country's restrictions on ".cn" top level domain names may curb registration of scam domains, but not likely to stifle user-generated content, says analyst.
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Facebook user charged in Malaysia
Local student pleads not guilty in what is believed to be country's first indictment over use of Facebook to issue statement regarding recent church attacks.
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Google China insiders may have helped with attack
Google looking into whether employees in China could have played a part in what looks like a multi-prong attack on the company, according to sources familiar with the investigation.
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China's mobile Net users double to 233M
Users surfing Web through mobile phones doubled year-on-year in 2009, while total Internet users grew almost a third.
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US plans formal complaint over Google attacks
Attacks on Google and other U.S. companies believed to be the work of the Chinese government will be met with a formal protest from the U.S. Department of State.
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Google, China define positions over censorship
Few will be surprised to hear that China has reiterated its belief that Web sites should adhere to government oversight, and Google no longer wants to play ball.
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Google's peers mulling their options in China
Internet companies operating in China are reviewing their strategies following Google's announcement that it might exit the market. But no one seems ready to make a move.
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What Google might leave on the table in China
Walking away from one of the 21st century's most promising technology markets could have a significant long-term effect on Google's finances.
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Microsoft, Yahoo to follow Google's lead in China?
With Google saying it will stop censoring its Chinese search results, a key question now is whether its major search rivals will follow suit.
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Google warns it may exit China over censorship
Following attacks on Gmail accounts of human rights activists, Google says it will no longer censor search results in China and might shut down Google.cn.
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Friendster, Yahoo ink cross-promotion deal
Social network continues push into region with cross-promotion deal bringing custom app and search results to Yahoo's Southeast Asia home page.
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Google sorry for 'poor communication' in China
Web giant acknowledges it has not handled concerns of Chinese authors in the best fashion, apologizing to them in hopes of reaching agreement later this year.
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Twitter an antispam 'gray area'
Tweets carrying advertisements may not violate Singapore's Spam Control Act yet, but already fall within U.S. guidelines for bloggers, lawyer notes.
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China arrests thousands in Web porn crackdown
The Chinese government says it arrested more than 5,000 people in 2009 in an effort to crack down on Web porn use, according to report.
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China remain vigilant over online porn
Strict Net policing to continue even as Web ban is partially lifted in Xinjiang province following July's riots in the city, according to Chinese news report.
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