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07.26.18Facebook’s Return to China Thrown into Doubt
BBC
The company, like all major US tech platforms, has been blocked in the country since 2009. Facebook said on Wednesday it had secured a licence to set up an “innovation hub to support Chinese developers, innovators and start-ups”. But 24 hours later...
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03.15.18The Battle for Digital Supremacy
Economist
“DESIGNED by Apple in California. Assembled in China”. For the past decade the words embossed on the back of iPhones have served as shorthand for the technological bargain between the world’s two biggest economies: America supplies the brains and...
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03.14.18Facebook, Amazon Handicapped as They Follow China Playbook
Financial Times
Amazon and Facebook grabbed headlines with groundbreaking moves last week: segueing into bank accounts and music, respectively. Groundbreaking, that is, for the west—such moves are business as normal in China.
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01.19.18Executive Behind Facebook’s China Charm Campaign Is Out
New York Times
The executive in charge of Facebook’s efforts to court China has left the company, a fresh setback for the social network as it seeks to get its products into China’s huge internet market.
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11.21.17Chinese Social Media Giant Is Worth More Than Facebook
CNN
Tencent shares closed more than 2% higher in Hong Kong on Tuesday, valuing the social media and gaming giant at around $522 billion, according to FactSet. Facebook is currently worth a little over $519 billion.
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10.02.17Facebook Blocks Chinese Billionaire Who Tells Tales of Corruption
New York Times
A Chinese billionaire living in virtual exile in New York, Guo Wengui has riled China’s leaders with his sometimes outlandish tales of deep corruption among family members of top Communist Party officials.
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09.20.17The Timing May Be Right for Facebook to Enter China next Year, Analyst Predicts
CNBC
A Mizuho report pointed out that Beijing tends to lessen its media scrutiny during an administration's second term, and Facebook may have “an opening” after Xi Jinping begins his second five-year term in November.
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09.07.17Blocked in China, Facebook Is Said to Seek a Shanghai Office
New York Times
The social media giant in recent months has quietly scouted for office space in Shanghai, according to two people with knowledge of its efforts there. Those offices would house employees working on Facebook’s effort to make hardware but could also...
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08.15.17Facebook Tests Way Into China Via Secret Photo—Sharing App
Financial Times
A photo—sharing app has appeared on Apple’s App Store in China that looks exactly like Facebook’s Moments app, and analysts say it may be a way for the US tech group to finally break into its most coveted market.
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08.14.17In China, Facebook Tests the Waters with a Stealth App
New York Times
Facebook and many of its apps have been blocked in China for years. To change that, Mark Zuckerberg has made a big point of meeting with Chinese politicians, reading stodgy Communist Party propaganda, studying Mandarin and—perhaps more daunting—...
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08.14.17Facebook’s Secret Chinese App Is a Dud in China So Far
Quartz
Over the weekend the New York Times reported (paywall) that Facebook had stealthily released a photo-sharing app in the Chinese iOS App Store translated as “Colorful Balloons.” The news spread rapidly around English-language media, as it marked the...
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11.30.16Why Facebook’s China Adventure Will Need More than Censorship to Succeed
Guardian
As social network develops tools to restrict users so China will let it in, some experts say it is ‘light years’ behind rivals already in place
Conversation
11.28.16
Should Facebook Self-Censor to Enter the Chinese Market?
The social network Facebook has reportedly developed software to suppress posts from users’ feeds in targeted geographic areas, a feature created to help the giant social media network gain access to China, where it is blocked. Facebook Chief...
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11.23.16Facebook Said to Create Censorship Tool to Get Back into China
New York Times
The social network has quietly developed software to suppress posts from appearing in people’s news feeds in specific geographic areas
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10.13.16Beijing: Facebook & Google Can Come Back to China as long as They “Respect China’s Laws”
Quartz
Both companies still have business-facing services in China, but consumer-facing services have been blocked for years.
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05.09.16Facebook Wins China Trademark Case
Financial Times
Such cases involve a Chinese company registering a high-profile Western name to benefit by forcing the company to either buy it back or take the matter to court.
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03.25.16
Facebook CEO Defies China Smog; Spoof Projects Nostril-Hair Air Filters
At least a few of Facebook’s 1.5 billion users now know that founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg ran several miles in some of Beijing’s most notorious smog on Friday March 18 while he was in the city attending a conference. Famously sharing his...
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03.22.16China Censors Say: Hey, Stop Picking on Facebook Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg
Washington Post
People posted photoshopped pictures of him jogging through other Tiananmen tableaus after his facebook update.
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12.02.15It’s Complicated: Mark Zuckerberg’s Donation Spurs Philanthropy Debate in China
WSJ: China Real Time Report
Some Chinese Internet users are asking: is it a kind-hearted gift or a tax dodge?
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10.26.15Mark Zuckerberg Courts China With Speech on People and Perseverance
New York Times
Mark Zuckerberg knows how to court Chinese users.
Conversation
01.29.15
Is China’s Internet Becoming an Intranet?
With Astrill and several other free and paid-subscription virtual private networks (VPNs) that make leaping China’s Great Firewall possible now harder to use themselves after government interference "gummed" them up, the world wide web...
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12.15.14Mark Zuckerberg Wants to Make It Clear He's Cool with China
Huffington Post
Lu Wei, the Chinese Internet czar who heads a censorship system that keeps many popular American sites—including, of course, Facebook—out of China, was touring American tech companies recently. Chinese media reported that when he arrived at...
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12.09.14Warm West Coast Reception for China’s Web Czar (Chillier in Washington)
New York Times
Mr. Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook, pointed to the book, “Xi Jinping: The Governance of China” last week while giving a tour of the company’s office to Lu Wei, the de facto head of Internet policy in China.
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10.31.14China: Facebook Not Banned, but Must Follow the Rules
PC World
“Foreign Internet companies entering China must at the base level accord to Chinese laws and regulations,” Lu Wei, the director of China’s State Internet Information Office, said. “First, you can’t damage the national interests of the country...
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06.11.14Instagram Grows in China, Despite Ban on Parent Facebook
CNET
While Facebook itself is blocked by the Chinese government, Facebook-owned Instagram is growing fast in that country.
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06.05.14Accel’s Breyer to Partner With Venture Capital Firm in China
New York Times
James Breyer, the venture capitalist who made a fortune with an early bet on Facebook, is putting some of his winnings to work in partnership with Beijing-based IDG Capital to invest in tech start-ups.
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10.04.13No, Facebook Can’t Conquer China With Free Trade
Wired
Mark Zuckerberg’s social network has now been legalized inside a forthcoming free-trade zone within Shanghai, but the beachhead will likely remain just that, as it’s unlikely Facebook will be able to penetrate other regions or...
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02.21.13Malware Attack On Apple Said To Come From Eastern Europe
Bloomberg
At least 40 companies including Apple Inc., Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. were targeted in malware attacks linked to an Eastern European gang of hackers that is trying steal company secrets.
Media
05.31.12
Zuckerberg’s CCTV Cameo
Chinese social media outlets lit up after sharp-eyed viewers caught Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg making a cameo appearance on Chinese Police, a documentary series produced by China Central Television (CCTV). Just a few second long, the footage shows...