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• Chinese Press Reports Say Google China Maps May Be Facing Shutdown (UPDATED)
  Posted by bbishop on January 31st, 2012 at 9:53 pm, Comments: 0

  Grim if not unexpected. Chinese press reports say Google ($GOOG) has not met the deadline to apply for a mapping license and so is likely [...]

• Baidu Has A Killer Quarter. It’s Good To Be A Monopoly
  Posted by bbishop on October 28th, 2011 at 2:56 am, Comments: 0

  Congratulations to Baidu ($BIDU) on an excellent quarter and good guidance. From the earnings release: Third Quarter 2011 Highlights Total revenues in the third quarter [...]

• Unredacted Wikileaks Cable About The Google Hacking
  Posted by bbishop on September 3rd, 2011 at 8:50 pm, Comments: 0

  Last December we learned that one of the Wikileaks cables contained a claim by someone with high level connections that the attacks on Google ($GOOG) [...]

• Investors Shrug Off CCTV Attack On Baidu
  Posted by bbishop on August 19th, 2011 at 11:02 pm, Comments: 0

  Baidu ($BIDU) shares dropped 15.42% during this week of CCTV reporting on the company. Google ($GOOG) shares dropped 12.92%. It was a bad week for [...]

• Impact Of CCTV Attack On Baidu
  Posted by bbishop on August 19th, 2011 at 8:53 am, Comments: 0

  The CCTV attack seems to be Baidu ($BIDU) specific as opposed to be part of a broader campaign against Chinese Internet firms ($SINA $SOHU $NTES), [...]

• CCTV Continues Its Assault On Baidu
  Posted by bbishop on August 16th, 2011 at 10:27 pm, Comments: 0

  China’s main TV network CCTV is running a concerted campaign to discredit Baidu ($BIDU). Yesterday we discussed the first TV report and the possible CCTV [...]

• CCTV Attacks Baidu, Again
  Posted by bbishop on August 16th, 2011 at 5:15 am, Comments: 0

  Last night CCTV aired a 26 minute report critical of Baidu ($BIDU), its sales practices and its Phoenix Nest system for advertisers. Using undercover reporters [...]

• Does Gmail Have A Basic Security Design Flaw?
  Posted by bbishop on June 4th, 2011 at 9:20 pm, Comments: 0

  I am a heavy Gmail user who lives in China. So far my Gmail account has not been hacked (or at least as far I can tell). [...]

• Have Facebook Executives Used The Media To Ruin Mark Zuckerberg’s China Dream?
  Posted by bbishop on May 12th, 2011 at 4:07 pm, Comments: 0

  Brad Stone of BusinessWeek has written a long and glowing profile of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg in which Stone reveals that Sandberg and CEO Mark [...]

• Detailed AllThingsD Report Claims Facebook Partnering With Baidu To Enter China
  Posted by bbishop on April 28th, 2011 at 8:42 pm, Comments: 0

  Liz Gannes at AllThingsD has just written that Facebook is coming to China in partnership with Baidu and that the Facebook China will not be [...]