Bloomberg's Ari Levy talks about Google Inc.'s announcement that some of its services, including Web search, mobile and advertising, are being fully blocked in China. Levy speaks with Pimm Fox on Bloomberg Television's "Taking Stock."
Facebook reached a major milestone this week with 500 million users. The social network was started six years ago by Mark Zuckerberg with only a few hundred users.
Paul Wuh, an analyst at Samsung Securities Co., talks with Bloomberg's Rishaad Salamat in Hong Kong about Google Inc.'s problems with the Chinese government. Google’s web search in China is "partially blocked," the company said July 1 on its site. Google, at odds with Chinese rules that require filtered search results, in March began automatically directing users to a site in Hong Kong, where there are no such controls. China said the remedy was unacceptable and may not renew Google’s license to provide Internet services. To allay the government’s concerns, Google began directing users last week to a page with a link to the Hong Kong site.
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News Corporation has started charging for online access to its London-based newspapers The Times and The Sunday Times. They are among the first general-interest English-language newspapers to charge for web access as publishers search for new ways to earn revenue and curb free sharing of their news on Internet search engines and aggregator sites.
The advocacy group Public Citizen is criticizing Facebook for briefly taking down a page advocating a boycott of oil giant BP. After a brief interruption, Facebook reinstated the content and blamed the incident on its automated systems.
It may soon be easier to block Internet porn: The agency that controls domain names will consider adding .xxx to the list of suffixes people and companies can pick when establishing their identities online.
A California mother is thanking facebook for helping her find her children, who she had not seen for 15 years. Prince Sagala typed in her daughter's name, only for her profile to appear.
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