China expects half a billion Internet users

The Chinese government has renewed Google’s license to provide Internet services in the country.The Internet Content Provider (ICP) license, under Chinese law, is required by every company providing Internet...

Microsoft’s MSN China division has partnered with social networking services provider Renren to offer instant messaging and social networking offerings in the booming Chinese online market.Under the agreement, the companies...

Baidu - often referred to as China's Google - has announced a deal with Microsoft that will see the company's Bing technology used to provide English-language search results on the site.Google and Baidu used to go head-to-head...

Chinese search engine giant Baidu has announced that Microsoft’s Bing search engine will power its English search results in China.The move comes as Google, the global search leader, struggles with a falling market share in...

King of the Googlers, Eric Schmidt has warned that a clampdown on Internet use by dictatorial governments is on the cards. Speaking at a conference in Ireland, the search engine giant's chairman said some governments wanted to...

China's communist party propaganda organ, state-run newspaper the People's Daily, has launched its own search engine. Originally named Goso while under development, the launch yesterday brought a new name - Jike - and unexpected...

Google has decided to redirect the traffic to its Kazakhstan website to a new Google.com website hosted on servers located outside the country.The move comes after the country’s Ministry of Communications and ...

Microsoft has launched its new Wireless Desktop 2000, a keyboard and mouse combo with advanced security features. The combo, which can be purchased from the official Microsoft site, is currently priced at $40 and it is compatible...

State-owned Chinese media has warned Google not to become a tool of ‘political contention’ between the US and China.In an editorial piece in the Chinese-language People’s Daily Overseas, a part of the State...

China has denied having anything to do with blocking access to Google's Gmail service after Google accused the communist regime of deliberately hobbling the web-based email service and making it look like it's Gmail's...

China Mobile and the Chinese state-run Xinhua News Agency have teamed up to launch an internet search engine. The pair have set up a joint venture company to operate the Chinese-language www.panguso.com,  they said in a...

A Chinese newspaper has dismissed Google's retreat from the country as the insignificant act of a single company. The Internet search virtual monopoly, which has been accused of becoming too big and powerful for its own good on...

A researcher working with a leading US security firm has claimed that he has found ‘fingerprints’ of Chinese hackers in the ‘highly sophisticated’ cyber attack that had targeted search engine giant Google...

China's Google-beating search engine, Baidu.com is blaming its domain registrar Register.com for a recent hack attack which redirected users to a page set up by the Iranian Cyber Army. The firm filed a lawsuit in a US court in...

Chinese internet users looking to access Google and many of its services were unable to do so after the Chinese government accused the US company of serious wrongdoings. The BBC reported that the Chinese Foreign Ministry...