The Great Firewall of China

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mobile commerce offerings through the addition of a flight booking service that will be made possible through LV.com (which was formerly called 17u.cn).

* Communist Party decries the Internet's negative effects* Online television shows very popular popular in China* Authorities intensify action against pornographyBy Michael Martina and Paul CarstenBEIJING,

A secretive group of anti-censorship activists is launching an Android app that they believe can punch a hole in China's "Great Firewall."

Lin Dong facing public disorder charge over strike-related 'online rumour', but rights groups say it is part of crackdown on labour unrest

Tencent's flagship app is blurring the lines between professional and social, taking the place of conference rooms, expert forums, recruitment sites, and, with its recent integration of LinkedIn, resumes.

If China wants to censor this it will have to block ALL of Amazon Web Services

China’s plans to revoke publication licenses for the popular Internet portal Sina.com is the harshest punishment so far for a prominent Chinese Internet company and comes as China intensifies a broader online crackdown.

According to official propaganda, two decades after the founding of the Chinese Internet, the billions about to be earned by Alibaba are all the proof that a Chinese official should need to support continued online censorship.

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The Shanghai Children’s Hospital has just launched an online registration system through its official WeChat account, the first pediatric hospital in Shanghai to do so. And as Song Wenjing of ICS reports, more and more major hospitals are using social media like Weibo and WeChat to communicate with patients and offer services.

The deaths of top Chinese officials in recent weeks have raised questions among ordinary citizens.

With its sizable number of active users and a strong social communication function, WeChat has helped carry itself online-to-offline through its payment mechanism. However, its closed environment has prevented corporate users from directly turning their "fans" into "business members" due to privacy controls.

http://www.campaignasia.com/Article/382258,wechat-still-lags-weibo-for-brand-recall-not-a-good-marketing-tool8212yet.aspx

Chinese social networks can seem a daunting challenge for brands that are trying to expand their business in APAC.

Since its launch less than two weeks ago, FireChat has been called a SnapChat and Whisper hybrid or something between SnapChat and Chatroulette. Even more astounding, in Taiwan—where FireChat toppled

Ending the NTIA's formal oversight of ICANN could open the door for other countries, critics say