The story Shanghai’s Free Trade Zone will offer investors uncensored internet, is a very small, but highly symbolic move by China’s government, explains business analyst Shaun Rein in Bloomberg. Some sections of the government are listening to complaints by foreign and Chinese business leaders, but do not expect major changes fast.Read More →
Author Zhang Lijia looked for the BBC World Service back at the Bo Xilai thriller, an event that kept many Chinese glued to their computer screens, mobiles and sometimes even TV-screens. Some of the motives behind an unprecedented open political trial.Read More →
No smoking and no pets are the major bans at China’s largest search engine Baidu, tells Kaiser Kuo, director international communication at the firm. Despite restrictions, China’s internet offers its users more freedom than the average American might thing, he tells in Star Tribune.Read More →
Apple got itself into trouble with the government last month, but a bigger fight is looming, says business analyst Ben Cavender in Quartz. First, the Chinese government has noted Apple iTunes does not comply with its censorship regime. And convincing Chinese consumers they have to pay for content might even be a larger barrier for business.Read More →
The internet censorship is worse than ever over the past ten years, tells business analyst Shaun Rein at Bloomberg. And it is hurting business. For internet companies going global, China’s internet policies are a big hurdle to enter markets outside China, he says.Read More →
There is no lack of creativity in china, says economic analyst Arthur Kroeber in the Wall Street Journal. But that overwhelming creativity does not translate very well into business. And the internet censorship does not help.Read More →
The quality of the internet in China has become so bad over the past months, it is jeopardizing business operations because of the governmental filters, tells business analyst Shaun Rein in the Wall Street Journal. Pulling out of China is no option, but business might scale down.Read More →
China might have the most sophisticated system to censor the internet, they can only till a certain degree mold the information internet users are getting, writes internet analyst Maria Korolov in Internet Evolution.Read More →
China hosts some of the largest competitors of Google, YouTube and other IT-giants. Still, becoming a global IT force is far away, writes journalist and internet entrepreneur Maria Korolov in Internet Evolution.Read More →
Not only the government, but also the internet users are the masters China’s internet companies have to listen to, explains Baidu’s director for international communication Kaiser Kuo in Yale Global. On how the country’s public sphere is developing.Read More →
China’s MIIT, the ministry of industry and information technology, prepares new legislation on apps for mobiles, aimed at protecting the end users. The new regulations will force this new industry into maturity rather than censor it, tells industry analyst Ben Cavender in ZDNet. Read More →
When Google decided to withdraw its search engine from China, it was not just a corporate decision, but had large repercussions inside the country’s government too, explains business analyst Shaun Rein in the Pandodaily.Read More →