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Google can't give up on China

Submitted by Olivia

Since when? Always.

From the time that Google decided to leave China & divert all traffic to HK, I was telling myself "it can't be right. they will be back."

China has 1.3bn people. It is a huge market for Google, for most companies, it's just hard to let it go.

However, the organisation's continuing problems with the "great firewall of China", which limits access to online information. The recent awarding of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize to dissident Liu Xiaobo, can never be found on any search engine in China.

How will Google cope with this?

Facebook Places or is this the end of FourSquare?

Submitted by Dean
Didn’t take a long for big guys to take on new kid on the block – Foursquare. Facebook announced Places. Applications that pretty much copying FourSquare. Oh, yes, you can’t become mayor yet. Not yet... But you can ‘check-in’ where you are, share places with your friends, let them know what is good, embrace local business... you know, in general everything you can do on FourSquare, just this time on Facebook. Hmm, even that name is known from somewhere, maybe www.google.com/places ? And don’t mix this with Google latitude! Will this kick off?
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