BEIJING, China – China’s most popular microblogging site is cracking down on what it says is the spread of false rumours after the ruling Communist Party told Internet companies to tighten control over information online. (here is the story…) Related items China blog site shuts accounts over ‘rumors’ China train crash censorship scorned on...
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China blog site shuts accounts over ‘rumors’
China’s most popular microblogging site is cracking down on what it says is the spread of false rumors after the ruling Communist Party told Internet companies to tighten control over information online. (here is the story…) Related items China blog site shuts accounts in ‘rumour’ crackdown as government tightens Internet controls China tells internet...
Against the tide
Faced with the menace of the internet, Asia’s censors are not yet giving up the ghost . The unwitting instrument of Mr Najib’s epiphany was The Economist. An article in our July 16th issue covered the government’s crackdown on a huge demonstration organised by civic groups calling for electoral reform. In the copies of...
China cracks down on Internet rumors
Under growing government pressure, China’s leading micro-blogging service, Sina Weibo, launched a new effort to quash Internet rumors Friday by sending warnings to its users to ignore false reports. The unusual move comes four days after Beijing’s Communist Party chief visited Sina Corp.’s headquarters and called for Internet companies to stop the spread of...
Japanese spend the most time on blogs, says report
Internet users in Japan spent more time reading blogs than internet users in any other country around the world, according to a report released August 24 by digital analysts comScore. (here is the story…) Related items Singaporeans are heaviest Internet users in SE Asia Tor Project Aims To Map Out Internet Censorship Rakuten,...
Google may acquire Internet firms in Asia
HONG KONG: Google Inc may buy technology firms to expand in Southeast Asia, following Internet operators including Tencent Holdings Ltd and LivingSocial in acquiring companies to add services and users in the region. “We’ll continue to innovate ourselves, but where it makes sense, we will look out for opportunities,” Julian Persaud, managing director for...
Yahoo Japan Has Traffic But Google Has Mobile Technology
Once upon a time, long long ago, Yahoo used to be a real contender in the Internet search market. Those days passed with the rise of Google and Yahoo’s search capabilities have now been handed over to Microsoft via a Yahoo-Bing search agreement where Bing powers search results on Yahoo. (here is the story…)...
China tells internet companies to stifle dissent
A Communist Party leader has told China’s internet companies to tighten control over material online. (here is the story…) Related items China Coup: Communist Party Government Stamps Out Internet Rumors Following Bo Xilai's Dismissal Survey: China has 513 million Internet users China state paper urges Internet rethink to gag foes China state paper urges...
Report: 512 million mobile internet users in Asia by 2015
Regular readers will recall how I’ve often lamented how the failure of certain web analytics firms to include mobile internet usage in their statistics renders their research and data fairly useless in Asia. To help prove my point, eMarketer has an neat data set looking at the use of mobile internet in the content....
China Cracks Down On Internet Content
BEIJING — A Communist Party leader has told China’s Internet companies to tighten control over material online as Beijing cracks down on dissent and tries to block the rise of Middle East-style protests. (here is the story…) Related items China official tells Web firms to control content China Coup: Communist Party Government Stamps Out...
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