Google’s Gmail appears to have been blocked in China after months of disruptions to the service. On Friday, Chinese users reported a “severe disruption”, according to GreatFire.org, which monitors online censorship… Read more »
The United States has asked China for help in blocking cyberattacks emanating from North Korea, officials told CNN and the New York Times in the wake of the attack on Sony… Read more »
Xiaomi reported only 347.5 million yuan in net profit last year on a regulatory filing which works out to USD $56 million — which means Xiaomi’s operating margin works out to… Read more »
The Chinese web giant Baidu will buy a stake in Uber worth up to $600 million, according to sources quoted by Bloomberg. The ride-booking company, which raised $1.2 billion earlier this… Read more »
The hosting of a “World Internet Conference” tech industry talking shop in censorship-happy China was always going to raise eyebrows, but this is classic: According to reports by TechCrunch, the Wall… Read more »
There are tens of millions of smartphones running Android in China, but very few use Google Play services and almost none of them have access to Google’s app store. It looks… Read more »
GreatFire.org, which monitors the activities of China’s monolithic web censorship mechanism, claims HSBC’s Akamai-using corporate banking portal has falled victim to the Great Firewall. Read more »
Security researchers at Palo Alto Networks have identified a novel and nasty strain of malware that steals device and user data — but they reckon its full functionality is yet to… Read more »