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Category: YahooBy Curt on Mar 11, 2008 in Blocked, Iran, Yahoo | 0 Comments
In advance of the March 14 elections there, Iranian authorities have blocked Yahoo there, according to Norooznews (via OpenNet Blog). Yahoo’s search engine, its web mail service Yahoo Mail, and its groups function, Yahoo Groups, have all been blocked. Background, from the International Herald Tribune.
By Curt on Dec 11, 2007 in Beijin Association of Online Media, BOAM, MySpace, Ericsson, Intel, Yahoo, Nokia, China | 1 Comment
There is a very interesting article in the Far Eastern Economic Review on the Beijing Association of Online Media by David Bandurski.
When some of the world’s top technology companies, including Yahoo!, Intel, Nokia and Ericsson, formed the Beijing Association of Online Media three years ago, the group seemed to be a typical trade association, sponsoring […]
By Curt on Nov 13, 2007 in Shi Tao, Wang Xiaoning, Yahoo, China | 1 Comment
According to a CPB source, and subsequently the WSJ and others, Yahoo has “settled” with the families of Shi Tao and Wang Xiaoning, the two Chinese users of Yahoo’s email service, whom Yahoo sold out to the Chinese government. Shi, a journalist, and Wang, an activist, were both subsequently “sentenced” to 10 years in a […]
By Curt on Nov 6, 2007 in Shi Tao, Wang Xiaoning, Jerry Yang, Yahoo, China | 8 Comments
According to Bloomberg and the New York Times, Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang “apologized to the mother of an imprisoned Chinese dissident during testimony at a heated Congressional hearing probing the company’s role in jailing the man.”
Hang on, now. For a year, Yang has been contemptuously dismissing his company’s actions with a tedious repetition of “respect” […]
By Curt on Oct 17, 2007 in Yahoo, China | 3 Comments
Yahoo’s CEO, the cynical Jerry Yang, and the company’s General Counsel Michael Callahan have been ordered to appear in Washington D.C. before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, chaired by Rep. Tom Lantos, on November 6.
According to the CFA statement, the “committee staff will investigate whether officials from the Internet company Yahoo! misrepresented the company’s […]
By Curt on Aug 23, 2007 in Microsoft, Yahoo, China | 1 Comment
According to Reporters Without Borders via IFEX, a “self-discipline pact” (was) signed by at least 20 leading blog service providers in China including Yahoo.cn and Msn.cn. Unveiled on 23 August 2007 by the Internet Society of China (ISC), an offshoot of the information industry ministry, the pact stops short the previous project of making it […]
