Breaking News Regarding Google.cn
Here’s a subject you can be sure we’ll be watching as more information develops.
From CNN
“Google said Tuesday the company and at least 20 others were victims of a “highly sophisticated and targeted attack” originating in China in mid-December, evidently to gain access to the e-mail accounts of Chinese human rights activists.
“Based on our investigation to date we believe their attack did not achieve that objective,” according to a statement by David Drummond, senior vice president of corporate development and chief legal officer for Google, operator of the most popular Internet search engine.
Drummond said that as a result of the attacks, Google has decided it is no longer willing to consider censorship of its Google site in China and may have to shut down its site and its offices in that nation.”
Google is the most popular internet search engine. How will shutting down their offices in China affect their growth and popularity and what does this mean for the industrial market conducting business in China? Continue to read our international blog and our industrial blog as we follow this story.
