Google May Shut Down China Unit in April2010-03-19 09:21 by DanielaTags: Google
Google Inc. may pull out of China on April 10, China Business News reported today, citing an unidentified Chinese sales agent for the company. The search engine may announce its exit on March 22, the Shanghai-based newspaper reported, citing an unidentified Google China employee. It may also reveal plans for its China workforce on the same day, according to the report. The company hasn't confirmed the April 10 date for its pullout, the newspaper cited the sales agent as saying. Tokyo- based spokeswoman for the company, Jessica Powell, declined to comment on the report. Google challenged the government of the world’s most- populous country in January by threatening to allow all search results to be shown on its Chinese-language Web, including references to Tibet and the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. The two sides have since been in talks to resolve the issue. Google told its China employees after the January announcement that they were given the option of moving to the company’s U.S. headquarters or working for its Asia-Pacific operations should a pullout happen, the report said. Read more -here-
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