Censorship, Google Vs. China | featured news

Google Inc on Monday accused the Chinese government of making it difficult for Gmail users to access the service in the country, the latest development in a rocky relationship between the two.

High-profile censorship spat reaches detente with license renewal. On Friday Google announced the Chinese government renewed its license to operate its website in China. "I'm as surprised as everyone," says Rick Munarriz, senior analyst at the Motley Fool.

Google Inc. said Tuesday it will stop automatically routing users in China to its Hong Kong site after Beijing threatened the company with the loss of its Internet license in their latest skirmish over censorship.

Google Inc said its mobile services have been partially blocked in China for two days, about a week after the company shut its mainland Chinese portal and rerouted Web searches to a Hong Kong site.

China blocks results from Hong Kong-based site after search giant redirected users from mainland.

Google says it has stopped censoring its search results in China, risking confrontation with the country's authorities.

U.S. Internet giant Google will close its business in China next month and may announce its plans next week, Chinese media reported on Friday, after rows over censorship and hacking.

Google said on Monday it remained in talks with the Chinese government about censorship of its Google.cn Chinese-language search portal, despite mounting signs the company could soon shut the site.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin on Friday said he's optimistic that his search engine will not have to pull out of China over hacking and censorship issues.

A search engine called "Goojje" has come online in China, in an apparent plea to Google not to end operations in the country.