Google goes back to Chinese drawing board

South Korean consumer electronics giant Samsung has unveiled news will be released about Android on October 19th, from an event in Hong Kong which will also be live streamed on YouTube.Samsung has confirmed on their press and...

Google has announced its plans to invest more than $200 million to open three data centers in Asia.The company said that it has acquired land in Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong to construct the data centers, which can be readied...

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...

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 ...

In yet another development in the ongoing clash between Google and the Chinese government, Sina Corp, the Chinese Internet portal operator has dumped Google’s search services from its website. Sina Corp, owner of the 3rd...

The Chinese government has rejected claims made by Google that it was disrupting access to its Gmail service in the country. Jiang Yu, a spokesperson for China's foreign ministry said during a press conference that the...

Search engine giant Google has blamed the Chinese government for disruptions to its Gmail service for users in China. Gmail users in China, especially journalists, have been experiencing disturbances in Google's email service in...

A new Google 'question and answer' page has become inaccessible to users in mainland China on Tuesday.The news comes less than a month after the Chinese government renewed the company's internet licence, after Google promised to...

Google CEO Eric Schmidt has refused to attach great importance to the company's on-going tiff with Chinese authorities until a conclusion is reached, Sky News reported today. Schmidt was speaking about the issue at the Guardian...

The German justice minister has demanded that Apple informs her exactly what data it is collecting from users of its products, and what it intends to do with it. According to German privacy laws, it is illegal to collect user...

Google has announced it will be taking a "new approach" in order to continue operating in China.The Chinese government has warned the company that it could lose its licence to operate within the country if doesn't stop...

Search engine giant Google has confirmed that its mobile service operations in China have been partially blocked by the government, after it defied its wishes of running a censored search service and shifted its core backend to...

Search engine giant Google has been served with a hefty fine by a Brazilian court in the state of Rondonia for inadequate monitoring of pages on its Orkut social networking service, which contained dirty jokes. The court has...

Search engine behemoth Google has been lambasted from a section of its own Chinese web users, who have started boycotting the search engine and switched their allegiance to rival Baidu.  This comes after Google has been...

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...